The office of the registrar of assurances, Kolkata, and district registrar offices — where property sale agreements and deeds are registered along with legal documents like wills and testaments — opened on Monday after a month and a half since March 20.
RA office and the district sub-offices reopened to enable home buyers to complete housing loan formalities after registration of sale agreements and even move into apartments after registering property sale deeds.

In the notification issued by the directorate of registration and stamp revenue, the RA office in Kolkata and all registrar offices were asked to open from Monday with the staff assigned duty on rotational basis. Only offices in the confinement zones are exempt. Of the four additional registrar of assurances offices in Kolkata, two offices each will function on alternate days. While the offices will function from 10am to 5pm, the time for presentation of documents at the RA office has been set from 11am to 4pm.

Those seeking to register either property documents or wills and testaments will have to book e-appointments in advance. To ensure social distancing, only seven persons will be allowed into the office at a time. Also, the number of properties to be registered has been limited to 20 against the average of 200 registrations that happened at the RA office opposite Raj Bhavan in Dalhousie daily.

“The economy has to restart and the registration of documents is key to set the real estate sector in motion,” said an official.

Source: realty.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news