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he Karnataka Land Reforms and Certain Other Law (Amendment ) Bill 2014 wasintroduced in the legislative assembly by Revenue Minister Srinivas Prasad.

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The Karnataka legislative assembly passed a land reforms

bill on Friday to make it easier to divert agricultural land for

commercial and industrial purposes while also introducing a

10 year deadline for industries to use land awarded to them

following conversion of agricultural land.

The Karnataka Land Reforms and Certain Other Law

(Amendment ) Bill 2014 introduced in the legislative

assembly by the revenue minister in the Congress

government Srinivas Prasad modified sections of the

Karnataka Land Reforms Act 1961 and the Karnataka Land

Revenue Act 1964 which mandated two separate permissions

for diverting agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes.

The Congress government has now modified section 109 of

the Karnataka Land Reforms Act 1961 in such a manner that

permission granted to acquire land for non agricultural

purposes under the law can also be deemed as a clearance

given under section 95 of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act

1964.

“Once the permission under section 109 of the Karnataka

Land Reform Act, 1961 is taken the permission under section

95 of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 is deemed to

have been taken as the procedure under the two enactments

is similar but is time consuming as separate permission has

to be taken under each enactment which results in undue

delay,’’ the government has stated.

If the bill is enacted then industries and organizations will no

longer have to stand in line for clearances to use agricultural

land for commercial purposes under the Karnataka Land

Revenue Act if the government clears the purchase of the

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agricultural land under the Karnataka Land Reforms Act.

Under the existing system private enterprises need to obtain

a separate clearance for usage of agricultural land even if

they have already been cleared by the government to

purchase the land.

The government also introduced modifications in the land

reforms act where private enterprises have to surrender

land granted to them at the end of a 10 year period if they

fail to utilize the land.

The decision on diverting land lying unused by industries to

a government land bank will be taken a high power

committee headed by the Chief Secretary under the modified

law.

In the course of the debate on the bill some Congress

members raised the issue of some persons who were granted

land for industrial purposes selling them to third parties for

a profit. The Sandur MLA E Tukaram said that former BJP

minister G Janardhan Reddy had diverted land allotted to

him in Bellary for a steel plant to a third party.

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