Tamil Nadu government forms committee to address issues related to blocking/unblocking registration of ryotwari land 

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The Tamil Nadu authorities has decided to halt the “unilateral” blocking of registration of ryotwari land by the Registration Department based connected requests from officials of different departments, who cite pre-UDR records and the inam fair registry to forestall registration of such ryotwari land by individuals.

The authorities has besides constituted a high-powered committee to resoluteness issues for removal of blockage of registration of onshore settled as ryotwari patta land. The Chief Secretary would pb the seven-member committee. The Secretary of the Revenue and Disaster Management Department; the Secretary of the section seeking blocking/unblocking; the Commissioner of Land Administration, the Inspector-General of Registration; the Director of Survey and Settlement; and the Secretary of the Law Department are the different members. All requests for blocking registration are to beryllium placed earlier this committee.

The committee’s concurrence would henceforth beryllium required for blocking/unblocking of registration oregon blocking/unblocking of Tamil Nilam online records. The determination to represent the committee followed a gathering successful August this twelvemonth to resoluteness issues relating to blocking/unblocking of onshore settled as ryotwari patta land.

In the caller past, officials of the Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department person been filing appeals to the Revenue Department for cancellation of pattas in the sanction of individuals successful the UDR records. They further sought orders successful favour of temples, arsenic the onshore was recorded successful the sanction of temples successful the pre-UDR records and the inam fair register. Officials of the HR&CE Department person been penning to the Sub-Registrars and the District Registrars to artifact the onshore to restrain registration.

“Such actions nullify pattas legally granted nether Sections 8(2)(i)(b) and Section 8(2)(ii) of the Tamil Nadu Act, 30/1963 [Tamil Nadu Minor Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963]. ...these unilateral instructions are not due and the Registration Department should not unilaterally artifact lands, restraining registration, without circumstantial instructions from the Government oregon the Revenue Department,” according to a authorities bid issued by the Revenue Department.

Published - October 08, 2025 08:44 p.m. IST

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