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EC: encumbrance certificate (registered transactions). NALA: agricultural-to-non-agricultural conversion. LP: layout permission. FMB: official field measurement sketch. 22A: prohibited registration list. TM-15: Telangana correction application; GO: government order.
Section 22A of the Registration Act lets the government notify land the sub-registrar (SRO) must REFUSE to register — assigned, government, endowment/wakf, ceiling-surplus, court-attached or otherwise notified. Banks treat a 22A listing as non-marketable.
The EC lists every registered charge on the land — sales, mortgages, attachments — over a period. A clean or fully-disclosed chain is what a lender wants.
The live revenue record showing who currently holds and enjoys the land. It must match the seller's story and the deed.
Agricultural land sold as plots/houses must be legally converted for non-agricultural use (NALA). A layout on unconverted farmland cannot be sold as plots.
The FMB (field-measurement book) sketch fixes the parcel's shape, extent and boundaries. It must agree with the ground and the deed.
A plotted layout must carry a valid, live LP (layout permission) number and the plot must sit inside the approved plan and phase.
Projects over 500 sq m OR 8 plots/units must be registered with the state RERA. Marketing an unregistered qualifying project is itself an offence.
An unbroken chain of registered transfers reaching the current seller. A single missing link (unregistered partition, will, missing heir) is a defect.
Temple/charitable (endowment) or wakf land is generally non-alienable. It often surfaces via §22A clause (c) and the endowment/wakf records.
Land assigned to the landless poor carries restrictions on alienation. Usually surfaces via §22A clause (a).
Land taken as surplus under the Land Ceiling Act. Usually surfaces via §22A clause (d).
Land inside a land-acquisition notice, a road/irrigation alignment, or a protected buffer (lake FTL, nala, HT corridor) faces demolition or resumption risk.
A pending partition or specific-performance suit, or an attachment, makes title unmarketable even with a clean EC.
Arrears of property tax or vacant-land tax transfer with the land to the buyer.
An equitable mortgage (deposit of title deeds to a bank) often does NOT appear on the EC, but is registered on CERSAI. A buyer who skips this can inherit the bank's claim.
Plots in an unapproved/tentative layout cannot get building permission or civic services, and the sale of such plots is not registered until regularised under the Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS).
GO 111 (1996) restricts polluting industry and large colonies across ~84 villages in the 10 km catchment of the twin reservoirs west/south of Hyderabad (HMDA belt). Banks and planners treat catchment land as high-friction — especially west/south Hyderabad villages.
Structures inside a lake Full-Tank-Level (FTL) or its buffer (GO 168) face HYDRAA demolition — registration ≠ FTL clearance (a registered sale does NOT mean the plot is outside FTL/buffer). Buffers in plain English: lakes ≥10 ha → 30 m no-build, smaller lakes → 9 m, river in HMDA → 50 m, nala wider than 10 m → 9 m. Map: lakes.hmda.gov.in (HMDA). There is no separate public HYDRAA search portal — enforcement is via HYDRAA; the map to check is HMDA Lakes.
A built structure needs a sanctioned building permission (BP) and, above thresholds, an occupancy certificate (OC). Without them, utilities and flat loans are often refused.
For a flat, the owners' association can withhold a No-Objection Certificate and unpaid maintenance/corpus dues pass to the buyer. Not an SRO block, but a bank/HOA one.
Reserved/forest land carries an absolute registration bar (a large share of TG's §22A acreage is forest). It usually surfaces via §22A and the revenue land class.
AP repealed its 2006 agricultural-conversion (NALA) Act in 2025. The old “NALA certificate” is no longer the gate — development now needs a layout/building permission plus External Development Charges (EDC) under the town-planning framework.
