State minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday said around 49 lakh landholders in the state will now get ownership rights once amendments to the land fragmentation law are implemented, thereby effectively regularising land transactions carried out since 1965. The state government issued a notification for the implementation of the amendments to the Fragmentation and Consolidation Act on Tuesday.

“Nearly 49 lakh landholders — representing around two crore citizens — will now have their names officially recorded on land documents. All such land transactions between November 15, 1965 and October 15, 2024, will be deemed regularised without any payment of fees,” Bawankule told reporters. A detailed procedure for implementing the ordinance will be issued by the revenue department in the next seven days, he said. “This will particularly benefit plot holders in various layouts whose names were missing from the 7/12 land records. Once implemented, this will eliminate major confusion related to ownership,” the Revenue Minister claimed.