Maharashtra residents in municipal, municipal corporation and urban land-survey areas can now apply online for 14 property-card services through the Land Records Department’s Epsit portal, including entries related to wills, leases, transfer agreements, cancelled agreements and correction deeds.
The new facility is intended to allow citizens to submit applications from home instead of repeatedly visiting the city-survey office. The move covers property records for homes, land and flats located within the jurisdiction of municipalities, municipal corporations and other urban city-survey areas in the state.
According to the Land Records Department, the online services include recording a will on the property card, along with entries for lease deeds, transfer agreements, cancellation agreements, correction deeds and confirmation deeds. The department has developed 14 new modules to process these types of requests, which previously faced technical limitations in the property-card system.
Hemant Nikam, deputy director in the Land Records Department, said citizens would be able to apply for the services through the Epsit portal without visiting the city-survey office. The department has not provided, in the information available, a separate public timeline for processing each type of application.
The department has also connected its property-card system with the Registration and Stamps Department’s I-Sarita system through an application programming interface. As a result, an authorised property-card record from government databases can be made available electronically at the registration office when a property is being registered.
Previously, citizens were required to submit a physical copy of the property card during the registration of a house, land parcel or flat, according to the report. The electronic connection is intended to reduce reliance on manually submitted copies and help prevent transactions based on forged or altered property cards. The department has also integrated the system with the Building Permission Management System, or BPMS.
The change is significant because property-card entries sit at the intersection of land records, registration and building permissions. A property card records key information about an urban property, while registration authorities handle the legal recording of transactions. Linking these systems can reduce repeated document submission, but the accuracy of the underlying government record and the scrutiny applied to each application will remain central to the process.
The department said servers supporting the urban city-survey system had been updated to provide faster services to residents of municipalities, municipal corporations and urban survey areas. Shailesh Nawal, commissioner of land records and director of the Land Records Department, said 14 civic services would be available from home through the Epsit portal.
The announcement covers online application access. The available information does not specify whether every application will be completed entirely online, whether physical verification may be required in individual cases, or the service-level timelines applicable to different property-card requests. Residents will therefore need to follow the instructions and document requirements displayed on the Epsit portal for the relevant service.
