Punjab will be the first state in the country to go digital in property registration as the Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is set to launch the National Generic Document Registration System NGDRS in Amritsar through video conferencing on Wednesday.
Barely eight months after its launch at Moga and Adampur in November 2017, the CM’s pilot project of giving transparent and corruption-free governance in online property registration has been successfully implemented in 21 districts at 162 sub-registrar offices.
The Revenue minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria said the people-friendly paperless transaction has been lapped up by the people as it increases transparency in the property registration process.
He further said that the ‘Tatkal’ system of appointment would also be launched soon.
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) -cum-Financial Commissioner Revenue, Vini Mahajan said that 90,486 documents had been registered through the cloud-based NGDRS so far.
She said the online property registration facility had been created in the NGDRS portal, which had been running successfully in 21 districts of the state.
The consumers can reach the department’s website www.revenue.punjab.gov.in for online registration. The switch-over from manual to online property registration has been smooth, consumer confidence has increased and the project is making a clear headway, she added.
Mahajan said the Online Property Registration System is very simple and citizen friendly, which provides an online interface to the citizens to enter data related to registration and uploading of property documents 24X7, enables automatic calculation of stamp duty, registration fees and other fees based on collector rates.
The citizens receive SMS alerts at data submission, appointment and completion of registration, eliminating the scope of fraud.
Further, the online appointment system gives flexibility to the citizens to choose their date of appointment for the registration. Template documents are placed online to reduce dependency on deed writers.