Overview
- The Greater Bengaluru Authority published a draft that lifts the cap on deviations from sanctioned plans to 15% and invites public comments through April 30.
- GBA sources say the shift could help at least 40% of the 3–3.5 lakh properties now unable to get occupancy certificates required for power and water.
- Penalties would be based on a plot’s government Guidance Value, set at 3–10% for residential and 6–12% for non-residential buildings, charged only on the area that deviates.
- The draft permits 15% FAR leeway on smaller buildings and 5% on larger ones, allows a 7.5% height variance, and forbids regularising any additional floors.
- Civic activists, including N. S. Mukunda, oppose the proposal as normalising violations and link it to the Akrama-Sakrama plan that the Supreme Court stayed in 2017.