WHAT IS AKRAMA - SAKRAMA ?

What is AKRAMA – SAKRAMA?.

The title of the scheme is “Regularising the is irregular”. In Kannada, the connotation is something akin to legalising the illegal which is perse immoral. This disturbs the reader. It gives an impression that government has come out with a scheme which helps the people [ violaters] to legalise their illegal acts. This title itself has is wrong chosen as it has no direct relation to the real content of the law. This has simply helped in misunderstanding the whole scheme. The impression one gets from this name is that this is a scheme permitting the violator to legalise his illegalities in the matter of construction of buildings leaving an irreversible damage to the urban landscape. So, obviously, rightly public spirited citizens got distraught and opposed the policy of the government in its entirely without even going into the objective and operation of law. There is very little analysis available in public domain about the real implementation of this schemed. I have no hesitation in saying that this is one of the best schemes brought out by the government for one time regularisation like the one time settlement scheme brought out by I.T Department some time back allowing citizens to declare their black money by paying tax thereon.

LEGAL FRAMEWORK:

Though in the popular parlance, the scheme has been called as “Akrama – Sakrama”, in effect, it is nothing but making of Rule namely “The Karnataka Town and Country Planning ( Regulation of unauthorised development or constructions) Rules,2007” in exercise of powers conferred under Section 76 FF read with Section 74 of the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Acts, 1961 ( Karnataka Act 11 of 1963)with an objective to make statutory provision for laying down procedure for regularisation of three types of violations broadly classified as (1) regularisation of plot in an unauthorised subdivided land / layout (2) regularisation of land use violations and (3) regularisation of unlawful buildings.