Punjab completes 1.4 lakh online property registrations

The Punjab revenue department has so far completed 1.38 lakh online property registrations under the new system. Punjab additional chief secretary (revenue) Vini Mahajan said Punjab had become the first state in the country to launch online registration of real-estate property. The system was started on June 27. The ‘tatkal’ system of appointment for registration would also be launched soon, she said. Mahajan said apart from digital property registration, the revenue department had launched a pilot project of revenue court management system in Amloh, Fatehgarh Sahib. She said the system had been integrated with land records and during the filing of a case. “Once a case is filed, the system will capture the details of properties along with petitioners and respondents. It will automatically generate date-wise cause-list of different courts and interim orders and final judgements will also be uploaded,” she said. Apart from generating summon notices, the system enables all stakeholders to get text message alerts. “They can check the status of their case any time,” Mahajan said. The revenue department has also launched a ‘digital mapping’ pilot project to demarcate land boundaries in two villages—Mundi Kharar and Harlalpur—of Mohali district. The digital map shows minute details clearly and helps landowners to find their records easily. The revenue department is also working on setting up modern record rooms for which tenders have already been floated by the public works department. In the first phase, modern record rooms will be set up in Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Bathinda, Ropar, Kapurthala and Mohali.