The Maharashtra State Government has recently issued an order, specifying details of how housing societies can go about applying the transfer process.

The state has decided to appoint competent authorities to help facilitate the process for the deemed conveyance in Pune (which means transfer of land title from landlord to society) .

The district deputy registrars and Joint Registrars of cooperative housing societies have been appointed as competent authority to handle and take care of applications received from housing societies for transfer of land.

In 2008, the state had made amendments to the Maharashtra Ownership of Flats Act, 1970.

The official further states that “The new order specifies that the competent authority can initiate the process of deemed conveyance in Pune where one or more than one building on a single plot, is fully developed”.

According to a rough estimate, around 40-45% of housing societies in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad are yet to get the deemed conveyance in Pune. Around 80,000 housing societies exist across the state of Maharashtra. The maximum numbers are in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Nashik and Nagpur.