Betterment charges –
Flat owners must pay
betterment charges - BBMP
The BBMP Commissioner
has issued a circular making owners of individual flats liable for any due in
betterment charges, and has absolved builders of liability if they have sold
all the flats.
BBMP Commissioner M
Lakshminarayan in the circular has said: “In certain cases, owners of
properties have paid improvement charges in part. They have submitted an
undertaking that they will pay the improvement charges as prescribed by the
BBMP at the time of khatha registration. But on verification, in most of the
cases, the improvement charges are still due.”
He further goes onto to
say: “It is learnt that the owner of such properties are developers, who have
constructed buildings, whether it is commercial, residential or apartments; and
have sold the individual properties to the public. In such cases, the
purchasers of such properties are liable to pay the improvement charges.”
