PNS|Hyderabad
In a significant move to make the Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) more accessible, the Telangana Government has amended the Telangana Regularisation of Unapproved and Illegal Layout Rules, 2020. The revised rules now allow the regularisation of plots not only through registered sale deeds but also in cases of registered gift deeds, exchange deeds and succession.
The amendments were notified through GO Ms. No. 98, dated May 15, issued by the Metropolitan Area and Urban Development Department.
This follows a series of requests from the public and aims to expand the applicability of the LRS scheme to include family transfers and non-sale transactions, which were previously excluded.
According to the order, these amendments will be published in an Extraordinary Gazette of Telangana and have been introduced to facilitate the effective implementation of the LRS scheme, especially for transactions that involve inheritance or family-based transfers where no sale deed exists.
The notification draws power from state legislations like the Telangana Urban Areas (Development) Act, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, the Town Planning Act, the Panchayat Raj Act, and others, reaffirming its legal backing across urban and rural jurisdictions.
The main changes are that the phrase “registered sale deed” will now be expanded to include “registered gift deed/registered exchange deed, or by succession” in multiple rules of the original 2020 framework. These modifications are reflected in sub-rule (2)(b), sub-rule (3)(c)(ii), and rule (4), thereby standardising the new inclusions across various conditions within the regularisation process.
The amendments are expected to benefit thousands of property owners across Telangana who acquired land through non-sale deeds and had previously faced hurdles in obtaining layout regularisation.
