India, April 10 -- Bengaluru's municipal body, the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), has proposed an amendment to the city's building bye-laws, seeking to raise the permissible construction deviation limit from 5% to 15%. The proposal, currently in the draft stage, aims to ease compliance challenges faced by lakhs of property owners, offering a potential relief window. However, activists have raised concerns that the move could effectively legitimise widespread building violations.

According to experts, properties that were previously difficult to resell at market value due to such deviations may see renewed demand, as regularisation could also help owners secure e-khatas.

The deviation limit is the extent to which a building may vary ...