Nearly two years after the State Legislature approved the scheme to regularise revenue sites and structures on them, if any, the Revenue department has framed rules, including the penalty amount to be collected from the beneficiaries, enabling the government to implement the scheme.Sources said the draftrules will be sent to the State Cabinet for its approval. Once the Cabinet okays it, the government will take steps to implement the scheme. The government has fixed December 31, 2008, as the cut-off date for people to avail of the scheme as a one-time measure to regularise the sites.Around five lakh owners of revenue sites in the State do not have valid documents to prove the title over the land. The then government in 2005 had banned the registration of revenue sites to prevent haphazard development of cities and towns. Since then, the owners have been in the limbo. The draftrules framed under the Karnataka Land Revenue (Amendment) Act, 2011, have proposed to impose 30 per cent of the guidance value (government value) of land on sites above 30X40 sq ft dimension. For sites measuring 30X40 sq ft and below, 20 per cent of the guidance value has been proposed, official sources told this paper.Besides, owners in these categories will have to pay the land use conversion chargesas stipulated in Rule 107 of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act (Rs 13 per sq mt for residentialpurpose and Rs 43 per sq mt for non-residential purpose).For instance, an owner of 30X40 sq ft revenue site (residential) on the outskirts of Bangalore, where the guidance value is Rs 1,000 per sq ft, will have to pay about Rs 1.24 lakh for regularisation. The scheme envisages regularising revenue sites in all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), including city corporations, city municipal councils and town municipal councils. [More]Tags:ap assemblyy s rajasekhara reddyjaganmohan