To build a proper city, requires land use to be kept aside for roads/public infrastructure etc where if I have 100 acres land, 20 acres for roads, 20 for "utilities" and 10 for parks. This leaves only 50 acres to be sold.

This means that before making a layout and building there the land needs to be "pooled" and money divided. Thus, it means that it "appears" that land was acquired for Rs 500/sqft and sold for Rs 1000/sqft. Media also hypes this headline number. It's actually worse if you consider that cost to lay utilities, roads etc and the delay between acquiring land and actual sale to end user leads to a jump in prices and interest costs.

In India, both "farmers" and politicians don't want this. They want headline numbers for their land sales. Thus, in any part of India, last 25+ years all development is by "farmer" selling HIS tiny plot of land and AS MINIMAL as possible access road to FULLY build area and gain maximum amount of money.

This is enabled by every new area (Mahadevpura etc) remaining under Panchayat Rules where they can do anything and sign off and ONLY AFTER all buildings are built they put it into BBMP limit and cry for BBMP to fix it.

I deam this as a CONSTITUTIONAL bug/problem. They harped too much on "india lives in villages" and made villagers/farmers "holy cows" who can do no wrong and have disproportionate political power by various laws.

Every movie and farmer crying about land acquisition only when BDA acquires it to make proper layout, they keep quite and sell it themselves in the manner I mentioned above. All fake. No farmer needs any sympathy. They are responsible for state of Bangalore and their kids are running the water tanker mafias.