G.O.(Ms) No.84, Automatic Mutation of Land Records in Not-involving Sub-division Cases, 2020 (4 Feb 2020)

What the government order does

The Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Survey and Settlement Wing, through G.O.(Ms) No.84, dated 4 February 2020, approved automatic mutation of land records for Online Patta Transfer applications that do not involve subdivision. Automatic mutation means that the buyer's name can be entered and a patta generated without human intervention when the stated conditions are met.

The process was to begin with transfers involving single owners. The document states that it would later be extended to joint holdings. It was also to be piloted in one taluk before being extended to the remaining taluks.

When automatic mutation applies

The registration authority must record answers to five questions in the STAR 2.0 system. Automatic mutation requires a Yes answer to the first four questions:

• The seller's name matches the landowner's name in the online patta.
• The survey number, subdivision number and area in the registration document match the online Chitta.
• There is no encumbrance on the property.
• The seller and buyer consent to provide their Aadhaar numbers and mobile numbers.
• The authority must also record whether the buyer already has a patta number in the same village.

If any of the first four answers is No, the registration details are still sent to the Tamil Nilam database, but the application follows the routine workflow. Automatic mutation does not take place in that case.

What the buyer receives

The Online Patta Transfer system handles the result differently depending on whether the buyer already has a patta in the same village:

• If the buyer has no existing patta there, a new patta is generated automatically in the buyer's name.
• If the buyer already has a patta there, the newly purchased land is added to that existing patta number.
• The patta is sent to the email address provided at registration for both the buyer and seller.
• An SMS intimation is sent to their mobile numbers.
• The applicant can download the Record of Rights, or patta, and proceedings through the Anytime/Anywhere e-services portal at https://eservices.tn.gov.in.

Systems covered

The Director of Survey and Settlement reported that computerized land records for 303 taluks, comprising 289 rural and 14 urban taluks, 12 corporations and 92 towns had been placed online through Tamil Nilam Rural and Urban software. STAR 2.0 had been integrated with Tamil Nilam Rural software from 12 February 2018 to transmit property registration details to the Revenue Department for patta transfer processing.