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.
