Buying land in Maharashtra soon to be eased, online statewide records

By Realty Quarter Bureau

Online checking of land records will include checking of land records, name of the owner, the area, pending dues.

To make the purchase and sale of land easy and stress-free the state government has done the digitization of the land records which can be accessed through few clicks. Government has completed scanning over 34crore records and these will soon be available online.

Governor C Vidyasagar Rao announced this during his joint address to legislators of both the Houses on the first day of the budget session of the Maharashtra assembly.

“Cadastral maps (showing the extent, value, and ownership of land, especially for taxation) of six districts of Raigad, Aurangabad, Pune, Amravati, Nashik and Nagpur are being digitized in the first phase,” said Rao. It is part of the central government-sponsored Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme. Under the project, record rooms will also be modernized, he added.

Officials said the project was to be completed last year, but the pace of scanning and verification of the papers slowed down due to large-scale errors that have crept into the system. “The pace has slowed down in the last few months. The scanning of most documents has been completed. Verification and making them available to view online is taking a while,” said an official.

The governor, in his speech, also spoke about the various infrastructure projects that the state government was undertaking across different cities of the state. He said metro rail projects worth Rs 1 lakh crore are being carried out in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.