Is Malur taluk in Bengaluru, and what does a "BMRDA approved" plot there mean?
Direct answer: Malur taluk is in Kolar district, not in Bengaluru. The Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority Act was amended in 2005 specifically to remove Malur taluk from the metropolitan region. BMRDA's own page now describes the region as Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural and Ramanagara. A plot marketed as BMRDA approved in Malur is using an authority that does not have that taluk. Ask which planning office actually approved the layout, and read the conversion on the RTC.
Verify with your lawyer: This is general guidance from public rules, not a legal opinion on your flat or site. Have your own property lawyer read the papers before you pay.
What are the key takeaways?
- Malur is Kolar, not a Bengaluru ward and not a BMRDA planning area.
- Act 8 of 2005 deleted Malur taluk from the Bangalore Metropolitan Region.
- BMRDA today lists three districts. Kolar is not one of them.
- KIADB allotments are a different document from a private layout's approval.
Where is Malur?
Malur is a taluk of Kolar district, east of Bengaluru, on the roads toward Kolar rather than inside any city ward. It has a town, a railway station on the Bengaluru-Kolar line, and industry, including KIADB land. None of that makes the taluk part of Bengaluru Urban or Bengaluru Rural. A sale pitch that says Malur, Bangalore is using the city name as a magnet. The RTC will say Kolar. Start there. How to read the RTC is the same skill as inside the city, and the district field is the one that ends the argument.
What did the 2005 amendment do to BMRDA?
The Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority Act, 1985 created BMRDA to plan the metropolitan region. The statement of objects and reasons for amending Act 8 of 2005 says the point of that amendment was to confine the Authority to Bangalore urban and rural districts by deleting Malur taluk of Kolar district from the region. Indian Kanoon carries that text with the Act. BMRDA's present page on local planning areas describes the region as Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural and Ramanagara, about 8,005 square kilometres. Kolar is not in that sentence. Ramanagara was carved out of the old rural district later. Malur was taken out on purpose, twenty years ago.
So a brochure that says BMRDA approved for a layout in Malur taluk is pointing at an authority whose statute no longer includes the taluk. Old copies of civic notes on the internet still list Malur inside BMRDA. They are describing the Act before the amendment. Do not pay on a stale paragraph.
What should you ask for instead?
Ask which authority, under the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961, approved this layout, and read the order. It will not be BMRDA if the land is in Malur taluk. If the seller's paper is a KIADB allotment, that is an industrial-area allotment with its own conditions, not a residential BMRDA site. If the RTC shows agriculture, you need conversion before anyone can honestly call it a house plot. Form 11A and Form 11B are panchayat ideas from the Bengaluru fringe. They matter when a panchayat is the local body. They are not a BMRDA approval either.
Compare this with a plot that really is inside the metropolitan region, such as a site under an Anekal or Nelamangala planning authority, where BMRDA's directory is relevant. Jigani is in Bengaluru Urban. Malur is not. The eastern flats inside the city, Ramamurthy Nagar among them, are a third geography again. Distance on NH-75 does not merge them.
Frequently asked questions
Is Malur part of Bengaluru?
No. It is a taluk in Kolar district. Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Rural are different districts.
Can a Malur layout be BMRDA approved?
Not on the Act as amended in 2005, which removed Malur taluk from the metropolitan region. Ask for the authority that actually signed the layout order.
What if the brochure shows an old BMRDA map including Malur?
That map is out of date. BMRDA's current description of the region does not include Kolar.
Is a KIADB site the same as a BMRDA plot?
No. KIADB allots land in an industrial area under its own rules. Read that allotment. Do not relabel it.
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References
Checked 28 Oct 2026.
- Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority Act, 1985, including the statement of objects for amending Act 8 of 2005 deleting Malur taluk: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/59735992/
- BMRDA, local planning areas (Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural and Ramanagara): https://bmrda.karnataka.gov.in/8/local-planning-areas/en
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