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Good response to Samadhan scheme
CHENNAI Oct. 22. The
Government is encouraged by the response to its recently-announced
`Samadhan scheme' for clearing property transactions, pending final
resolution, by the Revenue department for collection of stamp duty.
Since the beginning of the scheme on October 1, a total
of 5,206 documents had been cleared and an income of Rs.11.13 crores was
fetched in the first 18 days, the Revenue Minister, Thalavai Sundaram,
told newspersons today.
He said all transactions had to be registered through the
Registration department, which collected stamp duty on the basis of
guideline values. When a dispute arose between a registrant and the
department, the matter was referred to the Special Deputy Collector
(Stamps), who, after examining the property and going through the
stipulated steps, would fix the value.
Up to April 18, over 95,000 documents were pending before
the SDCs, involving a notional value of Rs. 350 crores as duty. As a means
of unlocking the "locked-up revenue," the Government announced the scheme
under which the registrant was required to pay only 60 per cent of the
stamp duty and get the property registered, all across the counter. All
the 95,000 persons could avail themselves of the scheme.
"In the first 18 days, we have resolved disputes in over
5,200 documents, which was encouraging. We hope many more would prefer to
avail themselves of the scheme," Mr. Sundaram said.
The Secretary, the Commercial Taxes department,
Shaktikanta Das, and the Inspector-General of Registration, Pradeep Yadav,
explained the technology-based solutions the Registration department was
seeking to provide.
Under the STAR (simplified and transparent administration
of registration) project, more than 350 sub-registrar offices were
computerised to speed up creation of digital archives of documents,
issuance of encumbrance certificates (within minutes against eight to 15
days by manual checking earlier) and provision of guideline value of any
survey number or street in the State.
A dedicated network — "RegiNET" — was established which
covered all registration offices in the Chennai Corporation limits and the
Service Centre at the DIG of Registration office in Chennai. Applicants
could approach the nearest sub-registrar's office for getting encumbrance
certificates or ascertaining guideline values and certified copies of
documents already scanned.
Online
application
Recently, the department created a facility for online
application for encumbrance certificates.
Applicants could log on to the department web site (http://igregn.tn.nic.in
) and get certificates either by post (VPP) or
collect them in person on a fixed date.
Mr.Yadav said the Government was working "on various
options for making guideline-value fixation more transparent and
objective".
Recently, the committee had been expanded to include DROs. |
