Now, apply for mutation at Sub-Registrar Offices in Nagpur

Staff Reporter
Here is a good news for the people fed up of dilly-dallying at City Survey Office. Sachin Kurve, District Collector, has announced that the people can now apply for mutation of title records at four Sub-Registrar Offices in the city, and they need not go to City Survey Office for this.
Kurvey told reporters on Wednesday evening that the workload on City Survey Office was very heavy and several cases of mutation were pending for long. Though more than 1,000 cases were disposed of in past four days, the number of pending cases was still big. “To expedite disposal of applications for mutation, decision has been taken to decentralise its work. Now, people can apply for mutation at four Sub-Registrar Offices in the city,” he said.
The facility is being made available at Sub-Registrar Offices in Civil Lines, Sakkardara, Mahal, and Kotwali. If all requisite documents are attached with the application, mutation will be done within 15 days, Kurve said. According to him, the set of documents required for mutation and registration of a property was the same. Hence, people should apply for mutation at the same office where the property gets registered.
Importantly, District Collector also said that once an applicant moves application for mutation, he/she will be apprised about the status of the application through e-mail or SMS. The facility of mutation will be made available at abovesaid four Sub-Registrar Offices from Friday, June 19.
It may be added here that people faced a lot of harassment at the City Survey Office because of touts. The touts charge any amount between Rs 2,000 to Rs 10,000 for mutation. There are several people with the experience of submitting all documents and still getting the reply that mutation could not be done as the original file had gone ‘missing’. Fed up of frequenting the office for several weeks and months, applicants fell prey to touts. The move of District Collector to decentralise the task of mutation is likely to affect touts, and offers a great and much-needed relief to commoners. 

(17-06-15)