TS Government Banned Registration of Unauthorised Plots and Apartments

The Government of Telangana has issued guidelines prohibiting the registration of unauthorized plots and buildings in order to ensure the planned development in the State. On 26 August, the Registration and Stamps Department issued orders to this end.

Mandatory Approvals Needed for Property Registrations 

In the future, all layouts, apartments and buildings without a sanctioning plan of the civic bodies will not be registered. This applies to the plots that have already registered and are going for the second sale.

The Department Commissioner of Registration and Stamps, T. Chiranjeevulu, announced that with immediate effect, all municipal firms in the State, including the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation(GHMC), municipalities and gram panchayats, are entitled to compulsory permits and approvals.

This new order would affect thousands of properties in and around Hyderabad in the state, where thousands of illegal constructions and layouts have been developed. The government has decided to regularize its sections in the approved layouts under the Layout Regularization Scheme (LRS), which was now used in recently developed municipalities and merged villages. 

New Layout Regularisation Scheme

The commissioner said for registration of a house, flat or building, the approval of permission copy is a must and the registration document should be clearly mentioned that the registration is in accordance with the sanctioned building plan.

Registration of a structure does not now make it registerable for unauthorized structures. However, after producing a copy along with registration papers, the properties regularized under the BRS (Building Regularisation Scheme) and Property Penalization Scheme (BPS) are valid. In the village of Grama kantam, existing buildings can be registered in accordance with the Panchayat Raj Act.

The Government made provisions in the Telangana Municipalities Act 2019 and the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act 2018 to ensure the planned development in the State, which states that, unless authority approved, a new plot or subdivision is not registered by the Registration Authority.

In the same way, no land for the purposes of construction shall be sold to any owner or developer which is not part of an authorized layout as per the Panchayat Raj Act and registration of building is not done without an approved plan as provided in the Building Regulations.

By: Shailaja K