Representatives of 24 housing federations across the state as well as those from six housing associations have demanded that the process of getting a deemed conveyance, through the recently amended Maharashtra Ownership Flats Rules (MOFA) 2009, be simplified so that over 60,000 housing societies can get the right to their property without having to wade through heaps of paperwork.

The demand was made at a meeting with the housing secretary on Tuesday which was attended by chairmen of district housing federations from Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli, Navi Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and several other places.

This was the second in a series of meeting that the state government has been conducting with various stakeholders before finalising the MOFA amendment. The first meeting was held with different builders’ associations last week.

The amendment will make it possible for housing societies to get a deemed conveyance within six months of approaching the competent authority i.e. the deputy district registrar.

“The new rule requires flat buyers to produce twenty documents some of which can be plain time-consuming and others like occupation certificate are simply difficult to procure,” said Raghuveer Samant, chairman of the Mumbai District Housing Federation which has 17,000 housing societies under it.

These 21 documents include the registered sale agreement, property card, plot layout, non-agricultural order and urban land ceiling act certificate.

Each of these documents has to be produced not only for the purpose of getting a deemed conveyance but also at the subsequent stages i.e. while paying stamp duty, registering the document as well as while transferring the property in the society’s name at the land records department.

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