(1) Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, the State Government shall, by notification, constitute 3[[a committee for constituency of the Legislative Assembly, wherever necessary]11]3 a committee consisting of such number of members 2[not exceeding five]2 of whom one shall be a member of Legislative Assembly for the purpose of grant of land under sub-section (4).
[Provided that
(i) if the member of the Legislative Assembly of the respective Assembly Constituency has indicated in writing that they are unable or unwilling to be a member of the Committee, or
(ii) if the position of the Member of Legislative Assembly for that constituency is vacant, the State Government shall nominate any person as a member of the Committee of such Assembly Constituency.]8 [(2) The State Government shall appoint the Tahsildar of the taluk constituting the major part of that constituency on the basis of population as the Secretary of the committee.]9
[(2A) The State Government may, if it is of the opinion that it is necessary, constitute one or more additional committees for a 9[constituency]9 for the purpose of grant of land under sub-section (4) consisting of such number not exceeding five, as may be prescribed and the State Government shall nominate from among the members one of them as the Chairman [XXX]10. When an additional committee is constituted, the 9[State Government]9 shall determine the jurisdictions of the committee and the additional committee and transfer the pending applications to the respective committee.]3
(3) The 4[committee or additional committee]4 shall follow such procedure as may be prescribed.
(4) Nothing in section 94 shall prevent the committee constituted under sub-section (1), [or additional committee constituted under sub-section (2A)]3, but subject to such rules as may be prescribed, if any, to grant to the person liable to be evicted under that section, the land which he had unauthorisedly occupied prior to the 6[first day of January, 2005]6 (hereinafter referred to as the said date) 1[XXX]10 if he satisfies the prescribed conditions (including the extent of the land held and unauthorisedly occupied by him) and makes 7 6 [ [within a period of one year from the date of commencement of the Karnataka Land Revenue (Amendment) Act, 2022]6]7 (hereinafter referred to as the Amendment Act), an application for such grant in such form along with such fees as may be prescribed and on payment of the amount payable under sub-section (5):
Provided that the land so granted together with the land already held by such 9[family]9, shall not exceed two hectares of ‗D‘ class of land or its equivalent thereto:
Provided further that no land shall be granted in the areas lying within the limits of Cities and City Municipalities specified in column (2) of the Table below and within the distance from such limits specified in the corresponding entries in column (3) thereof:
[TABLE Sl. Places Distances No. 1 2 3 1. Bruhat Bengaluru Mahangarpalike under the Karnataka 18 kms Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 2. The Cities of Belagavi, Kalaburagi, Hubballi – Dharawada, 10 kms Mangaluru and Mysuru respectively under provisions of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976; And od Other Municipal Corporations under the provisions of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 3. All City Municipal Councils (CMCs) under the provisions of the 5 kms Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 4. All Town Municipal Councils (TMCs) and Town Panchayats 3 kms under the provisions of the Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964.
Provided that no such land shall be regularized under this section if such land,-
(a) lies in the line of natural drains or course of river valley;
(b) belongs to any local authority or a statutory or non-statutory body of the State Government or Central Government;
(c) coming in the way of existing or proposed roads, inner or outer ring roads, national highways, by pass over ring roads including those proposed for widening and railway lines, tramways, mass rapid transit system projects, communications and other civil facilities or public utilities;
(d) is reserved for parks, playgrounds, open places or for providing any civic amenities;
(e) is abutting to neighbouring property, storm water drain, tank bed areas; or
(f) is falling within the Land proposed for acquisition or is required for any proposed project of the state Government or any local authority, statutory or non-statutory body of the State Government.]6 [Provided also that the distance herein shall be calculated aerially from the limits of jurisdiction of the city corporation or municipality concerned.]12 [Provided also that a person who has unauthorisedly occupied the land, falling within the distance of five kilometres from the limits of the city municipality having less than fifty thousand population, prior to the 14th day of April, 1990, shall make an application for such grant, within three months from the date of commencement of the Karnataka Land Revenue (Amendment) Act, 1994.]3
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to Forest lands, plantation lands or lands referred to in sub-section (2) of section 79.
Explanation.—For the purpose of this section, ‗D‘ class of land means ‗D‘ class of land or an extent equivalent thereto consisting of one or more classes of land, as specified and determined in accordance with the formula in Schedule I to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961.
(5) The amount payable for the grant of land under sub-section (1) 3[sub-section (2A)]3 shall be such as may be prescribed.
(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding sub-section,— [(a) The Tahsildar concerned shall issue the order of grant of land, on the recommendations of the committee or additional committee, as the case may be, if any, and issue the saguvali chit. The amount payable, if any, shall be paid in three equal instalments of which the first one shall be paid before the expiry of a period of thirty days from the date of communication of the order of grant and the remaining two within such period as may be prescribed; and]4 [(b) x x x]5
(c) the trees, if any, standing on the land granted and the granite in such land shall continue to belong to the Government, which may at its discretion be disposed off by it, in such manner as it may deem fit.]1