The Brahmapur Builders’ Association, the Deed Writers’ Association and the Legal Cell jointly organised a Press meet to discuss some of the emerging problems the real estate sector was facing in Ganjam district.
The members expressed serious concern on the recent circular issued by the Ganjam district Collector instructing all the Sub-Registers of the district not to accept the documents presented before them for registration of immovable properties in the district unless the transferor produce the RoR (Patta duly mutated showing record of rights) in his favour even after the transferor produced the linked documents to the effect that the title flows to him from the tenant of RoR.
The members of the real estate firm now have alleged that consequent upon the said circular, the Sub-Registers of the district were not accepting the document presented before them for registration of immovable property without the presence of RoR, causing inconvenience and loss to the public.
It may be recalled here that, the district administration had convened a meeting on October 14, 2019 on implementation of ORERA Act and Rules on registration of immovable properties in the district in which the builders, realtors and deed writers and some registering officers of the district were present, sources said.
The district administration had made clear in that meeting to strictly adhere to the provisions of ORERA Act and Rules pertaining to the registration of immovable properties.
The Government has spent Rs 800 crore from its exchequer for purchasing and developing advanced software to develop a most comprehensive database of land records and for smooth and timely issue of RoRs to the public in least possible time, but in vain.
The members of the real estate firms also alleged that the Government machinery, on an average, take between one year to one and a half years time to issue the RoR to the owners/public instead of one week or one month as assured. If a RoR is not issued to the public within a week time or so, then what is the use of the software worth crores of rupees, they questioned.
If the Government ensures to issue of RoR within a week time, the real estate firms have no objection to strictly adhere to the provisions of ORERA, the builders claimed.