Land registration in urban areas of Haryana to be fast-tracked

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 1

The land registrations in the urban areas across Haryana are set to be fast-tracked.

With the Haryana Government appointing district-wise nodal officers for facilitating the issuance of no objection certificate (NOC) under Section 7-A of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975, for property transactions, the registration of land deals in the urban areas is set to “hassle-free”.

Sources said the nodal officers would “hand hold” the applicants right from the application stage and would be responsible for getting the NOC under Section 7-A of the Act for any property transaction.

To check the mushrooming of unauthorised constructions, the registration authority insists on NOC under Section 7 from the competent authority, primarily Town and Country Planning (TCP) Department, for any sale/lease of land in the notified urban areas in the state.

At a meeting chaired by Sanjeev Kaushal, Financial Commissioner Revenue, recently, it was decided that the competent authority must decide on NOC under Section 7-A within 15 days. If the NOC was not decided within 15 days, then it would be deemed be approved after 15 days.

The sources said since the online deemed approval system would some time to get operational, the state government had appointed the nodal officers to get the NOC for general public within 15 days. The nodal officers would face disciplinary action if they failed to get NOC processed within 15 days, the sources warned.

The state government had recently temporarily suspended the registration of land transfer deeds for varying period between July 22 to August 15 “to gear up for technology and process-based system to be put in place for curbing malpractices.”