Bengaluru Palace land takeover: Karnataka clears ordinance to withdraw TDR offer to avoid paying Rs 3,024 crore to Mysuru royal family

The Bengaluru Palace Grounds dispersed implicit 472 acres of onshore was acquired by the Karnataka authorities done the transition of the Mysore Palace Transfer and Acquisition Act of 1996 which received the assent of the President and came into unit connected November 18, 1996.

The authorities was to wage Rs 11 crore arsenic compensation for the onshore astatine the complaint of Rs 2.30 lakh per acre.

However, the acquisition by the authorities has remained successful limbo since the royal household challenged validity of the acquisition instrumentality successful the Supreme Court aft the Karnataka HC upheld the instrumentality connected March 31, 1997.

Subsequently, the Karnataka authorities acquired 15.36 acres of the palace onshore for widening of the Jayamahal Road and the Palace Road implicit a agelong of 2 km and a TDR compensation proviso was provided.

The Supreme Court, successful an bid dated December 10, 2024, – successful a contempt plea filed by the royal household – directed the Karnataka authorities to wage the transferable improvement rights oregon TDR for the palace onshore acquired for roadworthy widening – arsenic per the prevailing line values for the areas adjacent to the Bangalore Palace grounds.

The TDR that has to beryllium paid to the royal household for acquisition of 15.36 acres of onshore oregon 13,91,742 sq ft of onshore astatine the prevailing guidance worth of Rs 2.70 lakh per sq metre would magnitude to Rs 200 crore for each acre and a full of Rs 3,014 crore, the instrumentality curate said.

“Even contiguous the litigation is pending and determination is nary enactment and if the improvement enactment costs Rs 3,014 crore past Karnataka volition beryllium successful information arsenic acold arsenic improvement is concerned,” Patil said.

“Once TDR is paid it cannot beryllium regained. It would impact the state’s economy. We person decided not to wage the TDR. Since it is nether litigation determination are a batch of complications. The ordinance volition empower america to support power implicit the land. The due determination connected compensation volition beryllium taken astatine the close time,” the instrumentality curate said.

The Karnataka authorities volition record an affidavit successful the Supreme Court during the adjacent proceeding of the Palace Grounds substance indicating the determination to contented an ordinance to support the Palace Grounds nether the power of the authorities which would negate the TDR compensation demands.

“If Rs 3,014 crore i.e. Rs.200 crores per acre is fixed for the improvement of lone 2 km of roadworthy successful the state, the economical concern of the authorities volition beryllium wrecked,” Patil said. He said the ordinance would supplement the 1996 Palace Land Acquisition Act.

“Promulgation of the ordinance empowers the authorities authorities to usage arsenic overmuch abstraction arsenic required and wantonness the different proposals. The Minister explained that the Ordinance would let partial oregon implicit withdrawal from immoderate infrastructure task based connected immoderate tribunal bid oregon immoderate decision.