Land fragmentation rapid activity in Goa. Joint families giving way to nuclear families makes every one aspires to have a home of their own. Women are the first who day dream on this subject once married.
The Offices of the Talathis, village panchayats, municipalities, now Municipal Corporation, planning development authorities, Town and Country planning, City survey offices, Registrar of Co-Operative Societies,Mamlatdar, Dy Collector SDOs the Addln Collector and the Collectors are all involved in the land development activity. With the present practices and procedures the employment in these offices can ensure one to make a fast buck irrespective of the political party in power One need not be surprised if the husband, wife, sons daughters, relatives are employed in any of these offices. A compilation of name, surname, and mothers name of all the staff in these Departments will establish this fact.The salaries of these staff members can safely be deposited in the Banks for post employment use. Because there is a lot of money down the table, that can keep the hearth and home happy. Examine these facts. Deed of Sale effective from 10.7.2003 one needs to pays 5% and Co-Operative Housing Societies pay 2% for registering a document before the Sub Registrar. In addition the Advocates charge a fee of 2% to 3 % of the consideration, to draft the Deed of Sale. It does not matter whether it is a standard draft and some with blatant mistakes these easily go as typographical errors. Clear Clean and Marketable title is a rarity. The number of cases in the Civil Courts and Consumer Forum are an indicator. At some Sub Registrars office, you are directed to go to particular agent to get the Stamp paper or to computer type the Deed of Sale Partition whatever. The Notarising of a document is no different from attestation as the true version of the original copy irrespective of the legality of the document. Affidavits are swearings on oath but today even hard core criminals file affidavits. Then you got to pay an unreceipted amount of Rs.300/- and another Rs.50 to any witness or else the Sub Registrar or Advocates warn you that the Collector may haul you up for undervaluation. The market value of the land etc is undervalued. The rates with the sub registrar are no reflection of the ground reality. The 60:40 black and white ratio is the jungle law in force. The Plans, Power of Attorney ought to be annexed to a Deed of Sale is deliberatedly not attached and later a Deed of Rectification is ordered. When a certified copy of a Deed of Sale etc is demanded you will get one without the Plan annexed for the Plan you need to apply afresh and you may even have to requisition the services of a tracer to copy the same and get a certified copy. Mutation or Partion of the property of the same is another ordeal you have to serve the notices to umpteen people or have the notices published on local dailies and all this can be done if the Talathi is given his cut. Then the endless hearings at the SDO Dy Collectors Office. Your file needs to be moved with monetary inducements. Again getting the land resurveyed is yet another ordeal the surveyors are never available and you need to give them a cut to get their presence. There are Citizens Charter available for just Rs.20/- which tells you how to go about things. But this is only to enlighten you the path one needs to tread it does not ensure the duration to complete the task. It is easier to build without the relevant licences, sanad of conversion regularisation is easier but for a consideration. Similarly to get a construction licence from Farm house to commercial or residential etc or vice versa is easier. Power and water supply connections are easily available for a consideration. The Civil Engineers and Architects charge around 2 to 3% for the designing. Actually these designs commonly constitute just garage,shop,hall,guest bedroom,double bedroom store room terrace. There is no planning in reality it is just obtaining blueprints of several such models available at the PDAs or Town & Country Planning. The elected representatives advise the people not to quote the law. They say law is for the records. There must be give and take and above all collective violation to seek amnesty and understanding If Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar could sit and think how to have a SINGLE WINDOW to clear all the legal requirements from Land fragmentation to Occupancy Certificate , Completion Certificate grant of water power and sewage connection, he would go down in history as the only Chief Minister who has in a single stroke eliminated the biggest arena of corruption, which is followed by the Civil Registrar of Births and Deaths, RTO and PWD. godfrey j. i. gonsalves borda margao goa 9822158584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ Send free SMS using the Yahoo! Messenger. 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