The Delhi government has started uploading data pertaining to evacuee properties, Gram Sabha and acquired land on its portal to prevent such scams.
The data on acquired properties will also be uploaded on the portal so that the sub-registrars will not have to wait for the No Objection Certificates (NOC) and they can check the status of the land on their computers. It will help sub-registrars to determine if the land being registered by them is already acquired or under the process of acquisition.
Recently, two sub-divisional magistrates and a deputy secretary were suspended while recommendation was made for the suspension of an additional district magistrate over the alleged transfer of evacuee land in North Delhi. Also, a sub-registrar and a ‘kanoon’ were suspended for their alleged involvement in a similar fraud in South Delhi.
A senior revenue department officer said, “We are uploading data on evacuee properties, Gram Sabha land and acquired land or under the process of acquisition, on our portal. “We are trying to bring data of different land records on a portal that will help the officials concerned to check the status of land being registered. It will also prevent any chances of corruption and speed up the process of registry.”
Officials said there are around 600-700 evacuee properties in Delhi. Such properties are also known as enemy properties belonging to those people who migrated to Pakistan after partition in 1947. There are 105 villages, including 34 rural villages and rest urbanised villages, in the national capital as per the last census.
