Draft Model Act on Land Titles

• NITI Aayog has released the draft model act and rules for states for regulation on conclusive land titling with an aim to reduce litigations and ease the land acquisition process for infrastructure projects.

Salient Features

• It provides state governments power to order for establishment, administration and management of a system of title registration of immovable properties.
• Under the model Act, the land dispute resolution officer and land title appellate tribunal are one-shot institutions which will fade away as the work reduces.
• Also, after three years of its notification, the register of title attains conclusivity without any external action. Conclusive land titles are ....