Punjab govt strikes to grant property rights to villagers dwelling in ‘lal dora’

The Punjab authorities Friday paved the best way for villagers dwelling inside the lal lakir — the a part of the habitation used largely for non-agricultural functions — to get their property registered with the income division. This will assist them monetise it or avail advantages from banks.
For this, the state Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, permitted the implementation of ‘Mission Lal Lakir’. Earlier, these properties might solely be offered via energy of legal professional and the sale deeds couldn’t be registered. Following the Cabinet resolution, it’ll develop into doable for the village residents to get their properties registered.
As no report of rights is accessible for such properties inside the lal lakir or lal dora, the identical can’t presently be monetised as per actual worth and thus no mortgage may be created on them. There are households inside the lal lakir, which don’t personal property apart from the areas inside the lal lakir, and are thus at an obstacle with regards to monetising or realising the true worth of the property, in response to a authorities assertion.
Earlier, on the time settlement within the villages, the residents had been handed over a chunk of land to construct their homes. But they didn’t get the property rights. They needed to get an endeavor from the federal government that the land was underneath their possession.
Under the mission, the suitable of report of properties inside ‘Lal Lakir’ within the villages of the state can be ready with the cooperation of the federal government of India underneath the SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) scheme. This will allow mapping the land, households, habitation and all different areas falling inside lal lakir.
While the federal government has given its go forward to the scheme, it faces an enormous problem in implementing it. Punjab has about 12,750 villages and the whole income report must be ready for these villages.
The lal dora system is a remnant of the colonial rule. It was carried out by the British in 1908. At that point the agriculture land was demarcated from residential space by means of a crimson line within the map of land data. The space falling inside the crimson line was known as the lal dora.
Meanwhile, the state Cabinet permitted the revision of the practically 90-year-old charge construction underneath the Indian Partnership Act, 1932, to deliver it on a par with different states. This means registration of partnership companies will get costlier in Punjab.
The Council of Ministers permitted ‘The Indian Partnership (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2021’ for the revision of charge for varied providers as contained in Schedule-1 underneath Section 71 of the Act.