Andhra Pradesh: Inherited Lands Registration for Rs 100 at Secretariats
The Secretariats would register only those properties that would be inherited by the successors, after the death of the property owner. All the other property transactions would be done at the sub-registrar office as usual
Ancestral properties would be registered with a nominal fee of Rs 100 in the village/ward secretariats in the state. According to the market value of the property as decided by the sub-registrar office, if it valued Rs 10 lakh or below, the succession registration would be done taking a stamp duty of Rs 1000. If the property is valued beyond Rs 10 lakh, the fee would be 1,000.
The Secretariats would register only those properties that would be inherited by the successors, after the death of the property owner. All the other property transactions would be done at the sub-registrar office as usual.
This facility is being introduced to avoid several land disputes, cropping up due to non-registration of inherited property and also the lackadaisical attitude of the staff at the tahsildar office. There are reports that the inheritors, after the death of their parents, are applying to the tahsildar and writing the details of the property on a plain white paper, which are not going for mutation in the right time. There are complaints that the staff at the tahsildar office are unnecessarily making the applicants do rounds of the office. The government received over 55,000 such complaints last year. A few others are questioning why should the property inherited from deceased parents be registered. This is leading to various problems.
The Secretariats are already issuing the death and family membership certificates. If the inheritors come to a written agreement over the property, the digital assistant in the village/ward secretariat would complete the registration process. If the registration is done, mutation would get done automatically and e-passbooks will also be issued subsequently.
The revenue department officials would issue orders regarding the procedure and the registration and stamps department would initiate necessary action.
During the YSRC rule, the practice to register documents in village/ward secretariats led to confusion. The digital assistants would be given training for a second time to carry out this registration at the Secretariats.