Maharashtra’s Land Records Department has launched an online facility that allows urban property owners to record wills on their property cards without visiting a city survey office. The service is available through the department’s Ipsit portal and also covers several other legal transactions linked to property-card records.
According to the department’s announcement reported by Pudhari, citizens can use the new system to apply for entries related to wills, lease agreements, transfer agreements, cancelled agreements, correction deeds and confirmation deeds. The facility is intended for residents in urban areas who need changes or legally relevant entries reflected in records for houses, land or flats.
The department has expanded the number of modules available to city survey offices from six to 14. The additional modules include will and testament registration, transfer agreements and confirmation deeds, cancellation agreements, lease registration, correction deeds, supplementary deeds of declaration and inheritance-right entries. These additions address transactions that previously faced technical difficulties during property-card updates.
The property-card system has also been connected through an application programming interface, or API, with the Registration and Stamps Department’s I-Sarita system. As a result, the official property card held in government records is expected to become available automatically on computers at registration offices when citizens register transactions involving a house, plot or flat.
Earlier, citizens were required to submit a property card during the registration process. The department said the direct connection with I-Sarita would reduce the possibility of transactions being carried out using forged or altered property cards. The change places the government-held record at the centre of the registration process rather than relying only on documents submitted by applicants.
The department has also updated the database version of its Electronic Property Card Information System. It said a continuous 72-hour technical process was recently undertaken to complete secure data migration. With increased server capacity, storage and processing speed, citizens are expected to be able to view and download property cards and submit mutation applications online with fewer technical interruptions.
A separate change concerns the implementation of court orders on property cards. Previously, files relating to mutation entries based on orders from courts or competent quasi-judicial authorities could remain in an approval queue for at least 15 days. Under the updated system, orders for which the appeal period has ended can be processed automatically within one day, the department said. The one-day process applies after the relevant judicial or quasi-judicial order has become eligible for implementation.
