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More than 2 decades aft the e-stamp insubstantial installation was launched, Karnataka volition regenerate it with mandatory integer e-stamping for some registerable and non-registerable documents shortly.
The caller facility, which volition go mandatory implicit the adjacent fewer weeks, volition not lone bring convenience to nationalist to get the stamp insubstantial from the comforts of their home, but volition besides forestall misuse, including creating fake stamp papers.
Ease of buying
From approaching a stamp insubstantial vendor connected specified days and clip currently, the caller installation volition supply the easiness of buying stamp insubstantial online 24/7 from the comforts of home. Not lone has it been made afloat online, it is besides not amenable to immoderate tampering, the authorities claimed connected Monday.
While earlier if a stamp insubstantial papers was lost, nationalist could not retrieve it, nether the caller facility, since the authorities volition support integer record, documents tin beryllium retrieved utilizing QR code.
The e-stamping installation was introduced successful Karnataka pursuing the multi-crore fake stamp insubstantial racket was unearthed successful 2002-2003. Over the years, gross from e-stamp insubstantial has brought successful important gross to the government.
If the stamp work of astir ₹45.90 crore was collected successful 2009-2010 by issuing astir 5.92 lakh certificates, it has gone up to astir ₹2,320 crore successful 2024-2025 erstwhile astir 3.07 crore certificates were issued.
Misuse of e-stamp
“The authorities has observed misuse of e-stamp papers. The misuse has been happening for respective years. The misuse includes printing of e-stamp and taking colour photocopies of it. The e-stamp was besides being misused to wage lesser wage than what was expected to beryllium paid,” Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda told presspersons present connected Monday.
He said that determination were 54 classifications for registerable documents whose fees varied from a fewer hundreds to respective thousands. “However, for transactions wherever respective thousands had to beryllium paid arsenic duty, a ₹100 worthy stamp insubstantial was being bought, which is mis-classification. This was resulting successful losses to the exchequer,” helium said, adding that respective specified cases had been reported.
Tech upgrade
The Minister said that the integer e-stamp had been mandated for registerable and non-registerable documents. “It has been noticed that astir fractional of the non-registerable documents are utilized to record affidavits. With the changing times, the authorities has besides moved up successful the technology.”
