Land registry resumes today in Haryana, e-appointments a must now
GURUGRAM: After 40 days the Haryana revenue department has resumed land registries when it had to be stopped following multiple complaints of illegal registries. The government has a digital database of available land in the state now. In this database, the buyer can access all information related to a particular property, such as an ongoing dispute or pending dues, if any.
Under the new Haryana Land Records Information System (HALRIS), every buyer needs to acquire an online no-objection certificate from the department of town and country planning (DTCP) before going ahead with the registry.
In the new system, all the records of government land or plots will be there. It will be a database of land owned by the forest department or falling in a controlled area. This database will include the area like Bandhwari where an Aravali hill was flattened to build a road to an illegal colony of farmhouses.
The new digital platform will also issue alerts to a buyer to tread cautiously. In case the land chosen by the buyer is already owned or acquired by the government, he will not be allowed by the system to go ahead with the process. Furthermore, if the land falls in a controlled area, the district town planner will get a notification soon after a buyer has applied for the registry. Finally, if the town planner issues the approval, the buyer will get a number, which he/ she needs to feed into the system to generate an online NOC.
After a buyer gets the online NOC, he or she will have to visit the tehsil office to proceed further with the registry process. The entire procedure used to be physical earlier — a buyer was required to visit the office even for a NOC.
District revenue officer Basti Ram said “The new system is aimed at plugging all holes in the land registry process,”
A buyer who has secured the online NOC for the private land in the Aravali region will also get a list of restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court on construction. “If any land is owned by a private individual and comes under sections 4 and 5 of the PLPA Act, its sale or purchase can’t be stopped. For such land, the registry will be allowed. Besides that the buyer will be made aware of the restrictions on construction,” a forest department official said. He added that the move would discourage people from buying land in protected areas, and if anyone did so, he/she could not claim to be ignorant about the restrictions.
Deputy commissioner Amit Khatri said the new registry system will take time to sink in. “People would need at least a week to understand how it works,” he added.
