In a choice aimed “to speed up industrial improvement, enhance commerce and employment, and promote inexpensive housing”, the Gujarat authorities on Tuesday introduced that every one the New Tenure Land for agriculture in rural and nagarpalika areas will likely be handled as Outdated Tenure Land.
With this, farmers will not be required to pay the premium for switch of such land for agricultural or non-agricultural functions.
The choice, termed by Gujarat authorities spokesperson Rushikesh Patel as a “revolutionary” step of income division, is not going to apply to land falling beneath municipal companies, city/space improvement authorities, and sure land parcels given for particular functions.
“… at current, in circumstances involving the sale, switch, or change in tenure or function of lands possessed for agricultural use beneath new, impartiable, or restricted tenure, prior approval is required from the Collector or the State Authorities, topic to sure circumstances. Moreover, farmers are sure to pay a premium for tenure conversion in such circumstances,” an official launch quoted Patel as saying. “To deal with these complexities, the Chief Minister has taken decisive and progressive steps. Going ahead, all new, impartiable, or restricted tenure lands within the state — excluding areas beneath municipal companies, city improvement authorities, and the Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, and Junagadh Space Improvement Authorities — will likely be handled as Outdated Tenure Lands,” it added.
The discharge additional mentioned, “This alteration implies that farmers will not be required to pay the premium for switch (of) such land for agricultural or non-agricultural functions. Furthermore, Mamlatdars will likely be required to hold out suo motu registration to categorise such land as ‘Outdated Tenure’.”
Patel mentioned that the choice is not going to be relevant to land allotted beneath Agricultural Land Ceiling Act and Bhoodan Motion and to these which have been given for particular function of rising bushes for fruits.
As per the discharge, the state income division has additionally launched key provisions to simplify non-agricultural land conversion course of by facilitating the issuance of Income Titles and Authorized Occupancy Certificates (RTLOC).
The discharge listed key elements of the system as:
1) The involved Collector has been instructed to resolve on the appliance inside 30 days of its submission,
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2) If a non-agricultural utility is submitted after acquiring the certificates, a notification concerning the relevant premium, penalty, conversion fees, or particular tax will likely be issued inside 10 days, and
3) If the appliance is made with out acquiring the certificates, will probably be processed in keeping with the present system.
The federal government has additionally taken a key determination associated to the verification of an individual’s standing as an agriculturist.
The discharge acknowledged, “In circumstances involving verification of the applicant’s standing as an agriculturist — notably when the land is initially of outdated tenure or eligible for premium and is being transformed for non-agricultural use — land information from 25 years earlier than the date of utility will not be thought-about for agriculturist verification.”
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Minister Patel additionally introduced adjustments made to the Gujarat Stamp Act aimed toward making certain efficient implementation of the Act by reducing public charges and enhancing administrative simplicity and adaptability. The adjustments will come into impact from April 10.
Itemizing among the vital adjustments, an official launch acknowledged: In circumstances of ancestral property, heirs of a deceased daughter can appropriate right-related deficiencies in paperwork by paying a stamp responsibility of Rs 200; for loans as much as Rs one crore, the stamp responsibility is capped at a most of Rs 5,000; for mortgage or hypothecation paperwork about loans exceeding Rs 10 crore, the utmost stamp responsibility has been elevated from Rs 8,00,000 to Rs 15,00,000. However, in circumstances the place the mortgage is obtained from a number of banks, a separate provision has been made to cap the stamp responsibility at Rs 75,00,000, excluding a surcharge.”
It additional mentioned, “If an applicant voluntarily pays the shortfall in stamp responsibility, will probably be recovered at 2 per cent monthly from the date of the doc, topic to a most of 4 occasions the unpaid quantity; In circumstances the place stamp responsibility evasion is recognized by the system, a penalty will likely be levied at 3 % monthly, capped at six occasions the unpaid responsibility; For lease agreements of lower than one yr, the place 1 per cent of the common annual hire was earlier paid on Rs 300 stamp paper with out correct responsibility, the State Authorities has now fastened the responsibility at Rs 500 for residential leases and Rs 1,000 for industrial leases.”
Within the price range session of Gujarat Meeting that concluded final month, Gujarat Stamp (Modification) Invoice 2025 was handed with all these adjustments to the Act.
Significance of the transfer
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The choices, particularly the one on suo motu changing New Tenure Land to Outdated Tenure Land in rural and nagarpalika areas of the state, are aiming “to speed up industrial improvement, enhance commerce and employment and promote inexpensive housing” and to strengthen the Ease of Doing Enterprise in Gujarat. The federal government has ‘let go’ of premium on conversion of New Tenure land into Outdated Tenure Land, which is important to alter the aim of land from agriculture to non-agriculture. Minister Rushikesh Patel mentioned that the federal government has “let go a giant quantity” to simplify the method of improvement. Sources mentioned that individuals have been complaining so much about difficulties they have been going through in conversion of land from New Tenure to Outdated Tenure.
