According to real estate experts, such a notification was awaited from the Centre  as there was buzz about PM Modi’s second move, after demonetisation, to stop circulation of black money believed to be stacked in the real estate industry. PIC FOR REPRESENTATION

Panic gripped the office of the undersecretary to government of India, Rasthrapati Bhavan, last morning, after an official mail signed by the undersecretary Sheo Nath Singh, directing chief secretaries across the country and union territories to complete digitisation of land records from 1950 onwards at the earliest and link them to Aadhaar, started circulating, soon going viral on social media.