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Bengaluru, Sep 25: Under the Karnataka Municipal Corporations (Second Amendment) Bill, 2020, passed by the State Legislative Assembly on Friday, a fine of Rs 2 lac will be levied for not disposing of the solid wastes through scientific manner and as per the guidelines prescribed in Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 by the Central government, particularly in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

With this, the individual households have to pay Rs 2 lac fine if they fail to dispose of the solid wastes in a scientific manner.

Earlier, the fine was a meagre Rs 1,000, law and parliamentary affairs minister J C Madhuswamy told the House.

Several public interest litigations (PILs) have been filed in the state high court complaining that solid waste generated in the BBMP limits was not disposed of scientifically and as per the rules made by the Centre.

The directions are given by the high court for the imposition of fines of households which are failing to segregate dry and wet garbage. Bill for regularizing illegal houses in BDA layouts: The State Assembly also passed the Bangalore Development Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2020, for regularizing illegal construction of houses in BDA Layouts in Bengaluru by paying penalty from 10% to 50% of the guidance value depending on the size of the site.

Under the proposed legislation, owners of houses on 20x30 sq ft sites have to pay 10% of the guidance value, more than 20x30 sq ft and up to 30x40 sq ft sites have to pay 25% of the guidance value for regularization of their constructions.

House building owners of more than 30x40 sq ft and 40x60 sq ft sites have to pay 40% while more than 40x60 sq ft and up to 50x80 sq ft owners have to pay 50% of the guidance value for regularization of constructions.

This amended law is applicable to house buildings which are 12 years old. Owners of 70,000 houses can regularize constructions by paying penalty, law and parliamentary affairs minister J C Madhuswamy informed the House on Friday.

The Karnataka Town and Country Planning (Third Amendment) Bill, 2020, was also passed in the Assembly and the Bill enables disposal of sites by registration, by the developers in a phased manner in the ratio of 40:30:30 by fully developing sites in each phase with all infrastructure and also to provide for single plot development.

The Bill also took care to protect the interest of the purchaser of sites. Bills were passed without much debate.