Karnataka waives OC requirement for electricity connections
Following Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s announcement after the Cabinet meeting on Saturday, the State government on Monday issued an official order exempting the requirement of
Following Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s announcement after the Cabinet meeting on Saturday, the State government on Monday issued an official order exempting the requirement of an Occupancy Certificate (OC) for obtaining electricity connections. People who have constructed ground floor-plus-three-storey residential buildings or residential buildings with parking facility plus four floors on plots measuring up to 2,400 sq ft (with an additional variation limit of 20%) within the jurisdiction of the Greater Bengaluru Authority, municipal corporations, urban local bodies and gram panchayats in the State have been exempted from obtaining an Occupancy Certificate (OC) for electricity connections.
The exemption is a one-time measure, allowing applications for permanent electricity connections to be made within 15 days from the date of issuance of the order. It is applicable only to cases where an application
for a permanent electricity connection had been submitted, or a building had been constructed after obtaining a temporary electricity connection, by May 31, 2026, as well as cases where a building has been completed without
obtaining any electricity connection. Further, the order exempts houses inhabited by farmers in rural areas, farmhouses, structures used for storing agricultural equipment, cattle sheds and silkworm-rearing houses from obtaining a possession certificate for electricity connections.
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