PNS|Hyderabad
The slot booking system will be introduced in all sub-registrar offices from June 2, Revenue and Housing Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said.
“We are going to provide efficient services to the public by introducing slot booking systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in all sub-registrar offices,” he said.
The slot booking system has been implemented in 47 sub-registrar offices in two phases out of the 144 sub-registrar offices across the state so far, and it will be implemented in the remaining 97 sub-registrar offices from June 2, he said.
Ponguleti reviewed the functioning of sub-registrar offices with Stamps and Registration officials on Sunday.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said the slot booking system, which was implemented to save time for property buyers and sellers and provide better services in a transparent, corruption-free manner, has yielded desired results, and 94 per cent of people are satisfied with it.
In the first phase, 30,592 documents have been registered in 22 sub-registrar offices since April 10, and in the second phase, 14,099 documents have been registered in 25 sub-registrar offices since May 12, taking the total number of documents to 45,191. He said that 3,000 more documents have been registered through slot booking.
He said the government takes and implements decisions as per public opinion. The ultimate goal of this government is to provide satisfactory services to the people, he added.
He said that in addition to the slot booking system, a chatbot with Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration, Medha, with the WhatsApp number 82476 23578, has also been made available.
Ponguleti said that this new process will clear the doubts of those registering documents and will also provide information like registration office location, details of slot booking vacancies and time availability.
He said that information on aspects like registration charges on gift deed, sale deed, market prices etc can be obtained through the AI Chatbot Medha.
The developer registration module will be introduced soon to check illegalities, so that details of completed and incomplete registrations are available at the registration office and with the builder or developer. This will prevent double registrations in all residential layouts. In this module, details of registered plots will be displayed in red colour.
In the context of introducing the slot booking system, additional sub-registrars and staff have been appointed in Patancheru, Yadagiri Gutta, Gandipet, Ibrahimpatnam, Suryapet, Jadcherla, Mahabubnagar, Vanaparthi and Gadwal, where the workload in sub-registrar offices is high.
He said that slots can be booked from 10.30 am to 5 pm, excluding the lunch interval, and 48 slots can be booked in each office per day. He said that for those who have not booked slots, permission has been given for five walk-in registrations from 5 pm to 5.30 pm in case of emergencies.
He said that precautions should be taken to avoid technical problems in the context of introducing slot booking.
Aadhaar-e-signature is being introduced to speed up the registration process along with slot booking. It is being implemented on a trial basis in the sub-registrar offices of Armoor in Nizamabad district and Kusumanchi in Khammam district, and will soon be implemented across the state.
