On May 27, 2025, the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of
Rural Development, Government of India, released the draft
Registration Bill, 2025 ("Bill"), which
seeks to digitize the registration system in India. The Bill is
currently open for public comments for a period of 30 (thirty)
days, until June 25, 2025. Once enacted, the Bill shall replace the
pre-Constitution Registration Act, 1908 (the
"Registration Act"), which currently
governs the registration process is India.
The Registration Act is currently serving as the governing
legislation for the document registration system in India, it was
drafted at a time wherein all documents were stored and saved in a
printed format. Consequently, it mandates the registration of
documents in the physical format and is shaped to accommodate the
extended timelines associated with the manual review of property
documents. The last couple of decades has seen an increase in the
digital storage and processing of a vast
