Newskarnataka – Mangalore

Mangalore: In a press meet held on Monday, May 5 at the deputy commissioner’s office Survey, Settlement and Land Records Department Commissioner V Ponnuraj asserted that the Property transaction using RTC or Khata will be stopped with the issue of property cards to asset holders under the Urban Property Ownership Record (UPOR) project in Mangalore City Corporation limits.

With the idea of issuing around 60,000 property cards in the next six months, Ponnuraj said that the work on comprehensive surveying and collecting of property documents is going on in full swing in Mangalore which is the third city in the State where the UPOR project is being implemented, after Shimoga and Mysore.

Giving out the details he said that there are an estimated 1.50 lakh properties in the city out of which 1.45 lakh properties have been surveyed.

The department has recovered documents of 67,000 properties in the last one year. As far as the pending documents to be recovered are concerned, around 25,000 properties are apartments, and 20,000 are vacant sites.

Collecting documents for vacant sites is a challenge as the owners are not easily available, he said, as he requested the owners to co-operate with providing documents for the progress of the project.

The 10 digits – Property Card

Stating the features and advantages of the property card, Ponnuraj said that the project intends to make the properties litigation free.

The project which involves surveying, identifying, mapping and collecting documents of the property will conclude with the issuing of property cards to the property owners or the occupants.

Moreover each card is in the form of a booklet which will have a 10 digit unique ID, and various sections such as ownership, land rights, liabilities, thus furnishing all the information about the property in one document.

Scrapping of RTC and Khata for property transaction and replacing it with the property card will help to make the transaction process easier, he said.