As Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF) announced its change in stance on Akrama Sakrama (regularisation) scheme through a letter on Tuesday, the members of Citizens Action Forum (CAF), who were the initial petitioners in the High Court, are highly disappointed. While they are not completely against regularisation, they are also not willing to compromise on certain terms related to the scheme.
In the letter, NBF said that it will not object to the government approaching the Supreme Court to seek exemption for poor and middle-class families under the scheme.
Earlier, in 2017, NBF had filed a petition in the Supreme Court and brought a stay on Akrama Sakrama as they believed that it would have enriched builders who committed illegalities. “...NBF was and continues to maintain that Akrama Sakrama must not benefit builders to get windfall gains from their illegalities, but that regularisation of properties of those citizens who have built their own homes, especially poor and middle class, should be permitted. But the Government of Karnataka has not approached the SC with any clarificatory petition on this to allow this,” the letter said.
