As part of the second phase of Anywhere Registration under the STAR (Simplified and Transparent Administration of Registration) 3.0 system, the Tamil Nadu government has accorded administrative sanction for mandating paperless registration of certain documents pertaining to family arrangements from November 2.

A Government Order (G.O.) to this effect was issued by the Commercial Taxes and Registration Department on Wednesday. As per the G.O., settlement deeds, release deeds, partition deeds, and revocation of settlement deeds relating to family arrangements will be registered paperless to ensure citizen convenience and transparency, and to reduce the manual handling of documents.

Under the arrangement, the digitally executed deeds shall be sent to the Sub-Registrar through the online registration facility, along with the required supporting documents.

The Registration Department shall process those documents, and the parties shall thereafter appear before the Sub-Registrar concerned for identification, authentication, and completion of the prescribed registration formalities.

After all the formalities are completed, the registered document shall be digitally processed and sent to the citizen’s login. It will be preserved in the STAR system.

The State government had already mandated presence-less registration of deeds relating to the first sale of plots by plot promoters and the first sale of flats by builders, along with the consecutive deposit of title deeds and for the deposit of title deeds and deeds of receipt presented by banks and other financial institutions.