People will soon register their property from anywhere as the national Capital is to be considered a single district for this purpose. The move will help thousands visiting sub-registrar offices at different locations, apart from curbing corruption and harassment.
In a review meeting on Wednesday, Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena directed officials to consider declaring Delhi a single district for the purpose of registration of properties to curb corruption and harassment of people at sub-registrar offices across the city.
According to officials, a similar step was taken by Andhra Pradesh in 2015. “This would enable any person to get the property registered from any sub-registrar office in the Capital rather than going to a specific office. This move is expected to put an effective check over malpractices,” sources said.
The LG also directed officials to bring the entire area in all sub-registrar offices under the surveillance of CCTV cameras, the feed of which will be brought directly to the Central Command & Control Centre.
Sources in the Revenue Department said that the new technology will interconnect all 22 sub-registrar offices.
The entire data will be available online and residents can take appointments at any of these offices or just walk in according to their convenience to get their work done.
A sub-registrar office on an average takes care of registrations of around 32 different documents, including the sale deeds, rent agreements, wills, and power of attorney.
Further, the issuance of NOCs by the Revenue Department regarding status of a particular land will also be made online in a faceless module, thereby eliminating any human interface.
According to officials, the national Capital is also going to have the country’s first Online Complaint Information Management System (OCIMS), which would enable Delhiites to lodge complaints of corruption electronically. Officials informed the LG that, as per his direction, the OCIMS is being developed by NIC for the first time in the country. The portal will allow complainants to upload photographs, videos, audio clips as evidence. Once the online system is ready, no physical complaints will be accepted, they added.
To prevent any misuse of the online complaint portal, the LG directed officials to make it mandatory for complainants to upload evidence and authenticate themselves with the Aadhaar number. The complainants will also be required to submit e-affidavits stating that the information provided by them are factually correct.