Bihar

• 23 May 2023

Bihar Registration Rules-2023

Why in News?

On 22 May 2023, Vinod Singh Gunjyal, Secretary--Registration Commissioner of Bihar's Prohibition Excise & Registration Department informed that the Prohibition Excise & Registration Department has notified the Bihar Registration Rules-2023 approved by the Cabinet.

Key points:

• Now the registration of documents will be approved only on the typed copy of the draft model deed approved by the department in the registration offices of the state. Through the model deed, documents can be registered by the party without any external cooperation.
• The registration offices have registered more than 1.82 lakh documents through model deeds from 1 April 2023 to 20 May 2023. For the convenience of the public, the format of 25 types of model deeds is available on the departmental website.
• The departmental secretary said that in the first 50 days of 2023-24, the registration offices have earned revenue of Rs 853.82 crore. This is 13.55 percent of the annual revenue target of Rs 6300 crore. In the same period last year, the revenue was around Rs 800 crore.