Govt Prepares Draft Registration Bill 2025 For Immovable Property, Other Transactions

New Delhi: The Centre’s Department of Land Resources has ready a draft ‘The Registration Bill 2025’ to align it with a contemporary, on-line, paperless and citizen-centric registration device for immovable belongings and different transactions. Once enacted, the Bill will exchange the pre-Constitution Registration Act, 1908.

As part of pre-legislative consultative procedure, the draft ‘The Registration Bill, 2025’ has been uploaded at the web page of the Department of Land Resources at https://dolr.gov.in for inviting ideas from the general public in a prescribed layout inside of 30 days (on or sooner than June 25).

The Ministry of Rural Development on Tuesday mentioned, “The Registration Act, 1908 has served as a cornerstone of the document registration system in India for over a century. It provides a legal basis for the registration of documents affecting immovable property and other transactions. Over time, the role of registered documents has grown significantly in both public and private transactions, often forming the basis for financial, administrative, and legal decision-making. It is therefore essential that the process of registration is robust, reliable, and capable of adapting to evolving societal and technological developments.”

In fresh years, the rising use of applied sciences, evolving socio-economic practices, and extending reliance on registered paperwork for due diligence, provider supply, and prison adjudication have underscored the want to create a forward-looking registration framework. Several states and union territories have already presented inventions akin to on-line report submission and virtual identification verification underneath the prevailing 1908 Act. 

Further, it’s similarly essential to obviously delineate the jobs and duties of registering officials, enabling them to uphold the integrity and reliability of the registration procedure in a fashion in keeping with appropriate legislation. Building upon those developments, there may be now a want to supply a harmonized and enabling legislative framework to enhance safe, environment friendly, and citizen-centric registration practices around the nation. The Registration Bill, 2025 has been designed to appreciate this imaginative and prescient, mentioned Ministry of Rural Development.