Haryana resumes process to register properties with agricultural land

                The Haryana government, which had since July 22 temporarily halted registration of transfer deeds related to transfer of land/ properties in the state, 
will restart the process in a phased manner.

The process for taking e-appointments for registration of agricultural land in rural areas of the state will start from Tuesday. However, the registration of 
agricultural land deeds will start from August 17. Similarly, e-appointments for the registration of land deeds in urban areas will start from August 17 
and the date for re-starting registration of deeds will be shared soon.

The decision on resuming registration process was taken by a meeting led by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and deputy CM Dushyant Chautala 
on Monday. The meeting also reviewed linkages of various departments with e-Registration system of revenue department.

The CM was informed that the testing of the module for e-registration of agricultural land deeds, in rural areas, prepared by the revenue department, 
has been completed.

Haryana has already made sweeping changes in the process of registration of property/land sale deeds after the alleged registries scam, which 
occurred during the lockdown and covers over 30,000 sale deeds executed without the mandatory no-objection certificates (NoCs). These land sale 
deeds were executed without taking NoCs from the town and country planning and urban local bodies departments in Gurgaon, Sonipat, Faridabad 
and Jhajjar districts.

Khattar specifically directed that the decision regarding no registration of transfer of deeds of land for land in urban areas, as declared/notified under 
Section 7-A of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975 (as amended from time to time) and villages where the jamabandis 
are currently offline and not available on web-HALRIS will remain unchanged.

Besides, this no registration of transfer of deeds of land will be done in controlled areas for the time being.

The Haryana government is also using technology-based checks to prevent registrations in violation of the law by interfacing the web HALRIS 
application with TCP, ULBs, HSVP, HSIIDC, urban estates, police, forests, litigation matters on priority basis.

There are a total of 32 lakh properties in urban areas across the state, of which 18 lakh properties are integrated with the department portal. The rest 
will also be brought on a single digital platform by October 31.

Source: The Times of India