The Hindu 13.08.2013
Get details of property on the internet before purchasing it
UPOR Card to have all details, including past ownership
Fraudulent sale of property mired in legal disputes by
suppressing information will be curbed in future as the Urban Property
Ownership Record (UPOR) Card will be embedded with all information
pertaining to it.
Details entered in the property
card, as it is called, will be available online and potential buyers can
get the legal status related to the property, including past and
present ownership, case number in the event it is mired in legal
dispute, bank mortgage details etc all of which will be linked to the
property card in question and will show up on screen.
The
property card will also indicate whether there are legal restrictions
on sale of a particular property as in case of allotment made to
beneficiaries under the Ashraya Scheme or similar social welfare
programmes. Once the documentation process is digitised and a property
is flagged as legally restricted from sale, the system will
automatically decline such transactions and thus help bar fraudulent
sales.
The UPOR was launched as a pilot project in
Mysore nearly three years ago to create urban property database complete
with spatial and building details, history of transactions etc.
Krishnaprasad, Deputy Director for UPOR in Mysore, told
The Hindu
that the property card will be akin to RTC issued for land in rural
areas and is the most authentic property document in urban areas.
“Under
the UPOR, we have mapped 2.98 lakh properties of which documents have
been collected from 1.18 lakh owners so far. After the initial
verification the draft property card has been issued to 50,000 owners so
far and 6,000 final property cards have been issued. After the expiry
of the 30-month mandatory period given to file objections, all the
50,000 owners who have received draft property cards will be issued the
final card”, said Mr. Krishnaprasad.
The authorities
have secured nearly 40,000 documents from the MUDA,, scanned and
uploaded them while documents from the Mysore City Corporation (MCC),
including khata, complete with details of ownership, mutation in
property, if any, daily transactions in the sub-registrars’ office are
also being scanned.
