MUMBAI: The suburban Mumbai collector’s place of business has made up our minds to scrap the iconic 7/12 extract, a the most important document for any landowner. Popularly recognized in Marathi as ‘Saat Baara Utara’, the document was once offered within the early 20th century and provides knowledge like the identify of a plot’s proprietor, its house and its cultivator—it is thus a document of agricultural land. The suburban collector’s decision is in step with the state govt’s plan to scrap 7/12 extracts in all city spaces of Maharashtra, the place each and every plot now has a city survey quantity.
Suburban collector Sachin Kurve instructed TOI there are lately 87,000 Saat Baara Utara data between Bandra and Dahisar and from Kurla to Mulund. Of those, 58,000 had been achieved away with after tallying them with the property cards of landowners. Kurve mentioned that since most agricultural plots in Mumbai had been transformed for non-agricultural objective many years ago, it does no longer make sense to proceed with the 7/12 document anymore. At the start of the remaining century, a lot of the land in Mumbai’s suburbs was once used for cultivation and thus the superiority of Saat Baara Utaras, supposed only for agriculture land.
Kurve mentioned that for lengthy, a land proprietor in Mumbai needed to produce each belongings card in addition to the 7/12 document. “Only a belongings card to turn out land ownership in city spaces should suffice,” mentioned Kurve.
“The document must tally with the city survey selection of the land. If there are discrepancies, then we can't scrap the 7/12 extract.”
Mariam Dossal, city historian and author of the guide `Theatre of Conflict, City of Hope’, mentioned, “The belongings registration form 7/12, I surmise, recorded agricultural land holdings on Salsette Island (the island on which Mumbai, Mira-Bhayander and part of Thane lie), which through the years after 1914 had been transformed into city settlements underneath the Salsette Town Planning Scheme. It could also be that the ‘Saat Baara’ was once also used to document holdings on portions of coconut plantations and rice fields that existed in Mahim, Matunga, Dadar and Worli and the northern sections of Bombay island, which existed well into the mid-twentieth century. It is value investigating additional.”
Retired bureaucrat Dev Mehta, who was once as soon as Mumbai metropolitan commissioner, mentioned the 7/12 extract is like “God” for landowners. “In in style Marathi Lavani songs, the protagonist asks the person to turn out if he is rich or poor by means of appearing his Saat Baara,” mentioned Mehta.
In the 1970s, Mehta mentioned, the state offered the ‘Khate Pustika’, a replace land document document for the 7/12. “But the Saat Baara was once no longer abolished then. It is useless to have each a belongings card and the 7/12 extract in city spaces. Scrapping 7/12 is a great transfer by means of the government.”
IAS officer Shekhar Gaikwad, who has achieved in depth studies on land data, mentioned it was once FGH Anderson (commissioner of settlements and land data), who streamlined and created a system to assemble land earnings in villages in Maharashtra. “Form 7 pertains to the identify of the property and form 12 contains main points of the cultivation and plants grown at the land,” he explained. “Saat Baara has become an inseparable part of the lifetime of an agriculturalist. Any point out of 7/12 creates an emotion of scare in addition to suspicion within the minds of farmers principally on account of his attachment to the land. Therefore, 7/12 is rightly called a reflect of land.”
Suburban collector Sachin Kurve instructed TOI there are lately 87,000 Saat Baara Utara data between Bandra and Dahisar and from Kurla to Mulund. Of those, 58,000 had been achieved away with after tallying them with the property cards of landowners. Kurve mentioned that since most agricultural plots in Mumbai had been transformed for non-agricultural objective many years ago, it does no longer make sense to proceed with the 7/12 document anymore. At the start of the remaining century, a lot of the land in Mumbai’s suburbs was once used for cultivation and thus the superiority of Saat Baara Utaras, supposed only for agriculture land.
Kurve mentioned that for lengthy, a land proprietor in Mumbai needed to produce each belongings card in addition to the 7/12 document. “Only a belongings card to turn out land ownership in city spaces should suffice,” mentioned Kurve.
“The document must tally with the city survey selection of the land. If there are discrepancies, then we can't scrap the 7/12 extract.”
Mariam Dossal, city historian and author of the guide `Theatre of Conflict, City of Hope’, mentioned, “The belongings registration form 7/12, I surmise, recorded agricultural land holdings on Salsette Island (the island on which Mumbai, Mira-Bhayander and part of Thane lie), which through the years after 1914 had been transformed into city settlements underneath the Salsette Town Planning Scheme. It could also be that the ‘Saat Baara’ was once also used to document holdings on portions of coconut plantations and rice fields that existed in Mahim, Matunga, Dadar and Worli and the northern sections of Bombay island, which existed well into the mid-twentieth century. It is value investigating additional.”
Retired bureaucrat Dev Mehta, who was once as soon as Mumbai metropolitan commissioner, mentioned the 7/12 extract is like “God” for landowners. “In in style Marathi Lavani songs, the protagonist asks the person to turn out if he is rich or poor by means of appearing his Saat Baara,” mentioned Mehta.
In the 1970s, Mehta mentioned, the state offered the ‘Khate Pustika’, a replace land document document for the 7/12. “But the Saat Baara was once no longer abolished then. It is useless to have each a belongings card and the 7/12 extract in city spaces. Scrapping 7/12 is a great transfer by means of the government.”
IAS officer Shekhar Gaikwad, who has achieved in depth studies on land data, mentioned it was once FGH Anderson (commissioner of settlements and land data), who streamlined and created a system to assemble land earnings in villages in Maharashtra. “Form 7 pertains to the identify of the property and form 12 contains main points of the cultivation and plants grown at the land,” he explained. “Saat Baara has become an inseparable part of the lifetime of an agriculturalist. Any point out of 7/12 creates an emotion of scare in addition to suspicion within the minds of farmers principally on account of his attachment to the land. Therefore, 7/12 is rightly called a reflect of land.”
Mumbai scraps 7/12 land ownership document
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