GURUGRAM: The govt will start door-to-door verification of property IDs in districts of South Haryana. This will address irregularities in property ownership documents, a major concern for citizens and one of the issues brought up during the assembly elections campaign.
The administration and civic bodies of the districts have been directed to first fix the issues related to property before streamlining the collection of property tax.
After the formation of the govt, CM Nayab Singh Saini started a “Samadhan Sivir” at the district level, and most of the complaints received at these camps were found to be related to property ID and Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP).
Division commissioner R C Bidhwan said the verification of property IDs in the districts of Gurgaon, Rewari, and Mahendragarh should be completed within the next two months and urged municipal units to initiate a door-to-door campaign for the same.
“Property ID verification process needs to be expedited. Municipal corporations of Gurgaon, Manesar, and Pataudi, along with councils and committees of Rewari, Mahendragarh, Narnaul, Dharuhera, Sohna, Farrukhnagar etc should conduct a door-to-door campaign for property ID verification,” he said, adding that only after verifying the IDs could the property tax collection campaign be effectively directed.
After online property IDs were introduced in 2023, Haryana govt made them mandatory to execute sale and purchase deeds. A property ID provides a unique identification number of the property and has attached the details of its owner, such as their name, contact number, address of the property, dimension, etc. These IDs are for paying property tax online, recordkeeping and executing sale deeds.
Haryana has around 48 lakh registered properties. However, the property tax database is incomplete, with crucial information about owners missing from it.
Govt data reveals that 42% of the registered properties, from residential to industrial or commercial, do not have the contact details of the owners, while 34.1% of the property IDs are missing the names of the owners.
Among all the municipal corporations, Gurgaon has the highest number of inconsistencies in property IDs. Around 39.4% out of 9.15 lakh properties in the district lack contact numbers, and 2.53 lakh (27.7%) properties have missing property owner names.
Faridabad follows closely, with missing contact numbers for 3.4 lakh properties and absent property owner names for 2.76 lakh properties.
In Ambala, 1.3 lakh properties have missing contact numbers, and 1.1 lakh properties have missing names.
Moreover, residents have accused the system of property IDs to be deliberately manipulated and mismanaged. They believe this is to force them to offer bribes in order to get their work completed.
Meanwhile, the division commissioner, while reviewing pending revenue cases in Tehsildar, SDM, and deputy commissioner courts, urged all officials to act promptly for their resolution.
“Revenue cases should not remain pending for long. Quick resolution of land-related disputes will provide relief to the public, enabling them to continue their agricultural activities smoothly,” he said.
