Awareness about Revenue or Agricultural Land

Awareness about Revenue or Agricultural Land

As the nation’s major revenue is from agriculture, the agricultural land is generally known as Revenue Land and also termed as Green Belt Area.  As per the zonal regulation of Comprehensive Development Plan, the Green Belt Area is meant only for agricultural purposes.  The Bangalore Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (BMRDA) is the major authority that approves sites on the borders of Bangalore. 

In order to learn more about the Green Belt Area, can lands in green belt be converted, what is change in land use, and present practices followed in the green belt zone then one must cross refer to these three acts:

1.      The Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961

2.      The Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961

3.      The Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964

Many legal advisors say that the purchase or sales of agricultural land involves complicated procedures and a number of legitimacies.

According to law, an agricultural land can only be used for agricultural purpose, if a person who owns agricultural land wants any alteration then the person should get approval from either the Panchayat or the District Commissioner.  Once the person gets approval from the concerned people, then the land can be used for residential or commercial purpose. 

If you have decided to buy agricultural land and planned to take loan based on it, it is better to drop out the idea.  As, you can not avail loan to purchase an agricultural land. As per the regulations, loans can be availed only for lands that are meant for housing purpose and owned by either developer or authority.

There are special cases in which the Karnataka Land Reforms Act states that the Deputy Commissioner can give special permission considering an N.O.C. given from the B.D.A. for conversion of agricultural land for purposes like schools, hospitals, libraries, sports clubs, cultural buildings, exhibition centers, low income housing, temples, etc.

Other than these, the Karnataka Land Revenue Act specifically prohibits the Deputy Commissioner from granting permission for conversion of land in the green belt for any other purpose, so no land in the green belt can be converted.

Although lands in the green belt cannot be converted, but with special permission obtained from the concerned authorities, certain kinds of activities can be exempted.

One of the special permission that one can obtain on the agricultural land is change in land use.  If a person wishes to turn away lands previously held for agricultural purposes within the green belt area to non-agricultural purpose, then change in land use is not applicable because the C.D.P. permits no other land use in the green belt and conversion of land is not allowed as well.  So, in this case the owner can obtain special permission for change in land use.  

Many superior committees recommended to consider only public lands as green belt area and the private land owners should be allowed to use their land as they want.  However it was not considered, as the zonal regulations is followed worldwide and further implementing this many will lack to compliant with zonal regulations and only fakers will benefit from it. 

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