Punjab government this week announced to do away with the clause of no-objection certificate (NOC) for the registration of any land and property in the state.
The state government had made NOC mandatory for property registration in 2012. It was intermittently withdrawn many times and re-imposed. In 2021, the Punjab and Haryana high court issued directions for making NOC mandatory but left it to the state government to form a policy.
In a populist move ahead of the Parliament polls, the Punjab government on Tuesday announced to do away with the clause of no-objection certificate (NOC) for the registration of any land and property in the state.
The state government had made NOC mandatory for property registration in 2012. It was intermittently withdrawn many times and re-imposed. In 2021, the Punjab and Haryana high court issued directions for making NOC mandatory but left it to the state government to form a policy. In the absence of a specific policy, the decision to make NOC mandatory caused confusion and inconvenience to the people.
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann said that it has been taken in a larger public interest to ensure that people do not face any sort of inconvenience. He said that the legal mechanism for this decision has already been worked out and the details will be disclosed soon.
