Revenue Dept, GLADA not on same page when it comes to registration of sale deeds

Kuldip Bhatia

Ludhiana, January 8

When it comes to registration of sale deeds of plots and properties in unlicensed and illegal colonies, the Revenue Department and the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) are not on the same page.

As per the latest directions of the Revenue Department (issued by Financial Commissioner, Revenue), no sale deed of plots/properties located in illegal colonies can be registered.

Meanwhile, the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) has directed the regional development authorities to issue ‘no objection certificates’ (NOCs) to plots and properties in unauthorised colonies solely for the purpose of registration of sale deeds.

It has also been clarified that such NOCs would, in no manner, alter the status of the plot/property or they would not be deemed to have been regularised unless developer applies for regularisation of the colony, as per stipulated norms.

By virtue of orders issued by the Special Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner, Revenue, officials have been directed not to insist on obtaining the NOC before registration of a sale deed as it will cause unnecessary harassment to the public.

However, instructions have been given that before registering any conveyance deed, lists of unauthorised and authorised colonies uploaded on portals of the department along with khasra numbers may be examined.

On the other hand, standing instructions issued by the Housing and Urban Development Department Punjab, state that no plots would be individually regularised henceforth, unless boundary of the colony and ownership details of agricultural land falling therein had been duly verified and thereafter layout plan of plots carved in it.

The HUD further stated that NOCs would be strictly issued on the basis of the list of licensed, approved and regularised colonies with their layouts uploaded on the department site.

In other words, no scope has been left for issuing NOCs to plots or properties located in unlicensed colonies even for the purpose of registration of sale deeds.

GLADA Chief Administrator (CA) Sandeep Kumar said the authority was dealing with such cases in two different categories — colonies developed before March 2018 and thereafter.

“In normal course, the NOC is issued to the property if the developer has submitted his application for regularisation and has also provided the layout plan of the colony,” he said.

In case, the coloniser has not applied for regularisation, but boundaries of the colony have been identified and marked, the NOC would be issued because the developer defaulted in such cases, but property owners were not at fault, he added.