Movements begin on Govt level to regularise 1.25 L properties under Gunthewari Act

Aurangabad, Jan 5:

In charge commissioner of Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and district collector, Sunil Chavan submitted a proposal to regularise more than 1.25 lakh properties in areas which fall under Gunthewari Act.

The discussions are being held on the government level to regularise properties of 119 colonies came up before 2010 and 54 after this.

The decision to regularise properties under Maharashtra Gunthewari Developments (Regularisation, Upgradation and Control) Act - 2001, was announced in 2015 when elections were round the corner.

But, nothing happened during the last five years. The movements have begun again on the Government and administrative level to regularise the properties and issue property registration (PR) card.

The Government instructed the Incharge commissioner and district collector Chavan to submit the proposal in seven days. He submitted a positive proposal to the Government in four days. The first phase is regularisation under Gunthewar Act while he second is doing NA of landholders and putting the name of owners on papers. After this, the process to get the property registration (PR) card will commence.

In the proposal, it was mentioned that multi-story building in Gunthewari areas should be regularised by paying a premium. District collector Chavan confirmed the submission of the proposal. There is a parameter of regularisation of properties developed until 2001. But, not all colonies will be regularised.

The reason the AMC found constructed houses in 2015 on the space which had plots in 2001. It was stated in the proposal that if the duration of properties is extended up to 2015, colonies in Gunthewari will develop. It is hoped that there will be an amendment in Gunthewari act so that it should be cancelled if anybody moves to court.

Gunthewari is the traditional method used for measuring land in the state and several farmers had sold their plots on this basis. However, as per the Gunthewari Act, the practice of creating small plots of agricultural land in multiple ''gunthas'' was illegal and hence carrying out constructions on the ''gunthewari'' land was not legally approved.