The state government has decided to allow registration of plots in unauthorized layouts by changing the guidelines. The state government had earlier stalled the registration of plots in layouts laid after January, 2020.
Keeping the registrations in unauthorised layouts on hold for nearly five months, the government has decided to relax the conditions to get them regularised. The town and country planning department was asked to issue the revised the guidelines to grant approvals for the layouts. The registration department is expected to issue separate instructions soon after the town and country planning department revised the guidelines.
The decision of the commissioner of registrations department, V Ramakrishna, kicked up a controversy in February when he issued a directive to the district registrars and sub-registrars not to take up registration of plots in the layouts laid after January, 2020 without proper approvals. About 19,000 layouts have been identified as unauthorized layouts. Although the directive had clearly mentioned the cut-off date for ban of registrations, field officials put all registrations on hold.
Subsequently, the state government clarified that the registration of plots in the newly laid layouts without proper permissions should only be put on hold.
After studying the situation, the state government has now decided to allow registrations even in those stalled layouts. The registration department which raked up nearly ₹7,300 crore during the last fiscal set its eyes on pocketing over ₹10,000 crore during the current fiscal. In fact, its revenues registered over 35 per cent growth in the last fiscal despite real estate market facing Covid-19 hurdles.
The government decided to allow the registrations in over 19,000 un-authorised layouts by grating then approvals with revised norms and fees. In addition to getting regularization fees, the transactions from registrations are likely to help the government garner additional revenues.
“Taking the appeals of the public to allow the sale of the plots through registrations in view of their personal needs into consideration, we are contemplating to regularize such layouts and allow them for registrations,” said revenue minister Dharmana Prasada Rao.