Golden chance to get property registered on old rates till June 7

Deepkamal Kaur

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, April 26

The Department of Revenue has given a golden one-time opportunity to allottees under various schemes of the government and local bodies to get their properties registered at the original allotment rates. These allottees had earlier failed to get their properties registered at their respective tehsils.
A notification in this regard has been issued by Financial Commissioner (Revenue) Karan Avtar Singh. Its copies have been now circulated among local bodies and district collectors concerned. The scheme aims at encouraging people to get their properties registered and thereby collect stamp duty that has been lying held up for decades in certain pockets. The step has come as a boon for the first allottees under various schemes of improvement trusts and PUDA across the state. The last date for availing benefits under the scheme is June 7.
The New Jawahar Nagar locality was carved out by the Jalandhar Improvement Trust in early 1960s. The initial allotment price under the scheme in 1963 was just Rs 300 per marla. "In all, 537 houses and commercial plots were carved out there. Around 20 per cent of the residents here are yet to get their properties registered as the prevalent collector rate stands at Rs 5.4 lakh a marla now. The relaxation has come as a boon for them," said ex-councillor Darshan Singh.
Kailash Thukral, a former employee of the Jalandhar Improvement Trust, said the residents of prime localities developed by the trust in the 1960s would be the biggest beneficiaries. "The first allottees of the scheme areas like Mota Singh Nagar and Lajpat Nagar, where the collector rates stand at Rs 6 lakh a marla also got land at the rate of a few hundred rupees a marla," he said.
The industrialists are also elated. Narinder Saggoo, president, Focal Point Extension, said, "The industrialists here got land allotted from the Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation Ltd (PSIEC), but they could not get the registries done. The collector rates now stand at Rs 1.2 lakh a marla and getting registries done at this rate was very costly."
DC Garg, Estate Officer, Jalandhar Improvement Trust, said a number of allottees had already visited them enquiring about the scheme.
Staff of the Local Bodies Department said the scheme was introduced in 2011 also, but for a very short duration.