REGISTRATION OF UNAPPROVED PLOTS ARE GOING TO BE BAN

State government is contemplating initiating measures to check illegal layouts by tightening the rules for registration.

One of the stipulations proposed by the Stamps and Registration Department is to permit registration of plots only in the approved layouts. Though earlier an attempt was made to regulate the layouts and a Government Order was issued, it was later put in abeyance due to pressure from various sections. Now government has proposed to issue orders afresh by making some changes to the earlier order.

The draft proposal will be first sent to the Revenue Minister and the Chief Minister for their approval.

Authorities have realised that mushrooming of unofficial layouts across the State and construction and sale of flats in these layouts without approval, were creating several technical problems coming in the way of planning development and depriving the registration department of its rightful revenue.

The department with an intention to set right the situation had first issued orders in November last year that plots in unapproved layouts should not be registered without a sub-division statement issued by the revenue authorities in respect of the agricultural land and an approved layout plan issued by the competent authority in case of documents affecting vacant sites for non-agricultural purpose. But with resistance from certain quarters, the GO had been withdrawn.

The Revenue Department, however, has formulated new proposals recently making it imperative for those planning new layouts to take prior approval failing with registration of plots will not be allowed.

However, exemption will be given to the plots that were already registered in some unapproved layouts but for the remaining vacant sites, one has to apply for layout regularisation scheme to be introduced soon to seek approvals after paying penalty fee and adhering to the prescribed norms in the layout design.