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Transfer Electricity Connection in Punjab 2026: PSPCL Name Change Guide

You have registered the sale deed, you have the keys, and the electricity bill still arrives in the previous owner’s name. Most buyers leave it that way for months because nothing appears to break. It does break, and usually at the worst moment. Here is how to transfer electricity connection in Punjab properly, and why […]

Mutation After Death in Punjab 2026: Succession Intkal Explained

When a landowner dies in Punjab, the land does not stop belonging to the family. But the government record still shows a dead person as the owner, and until that is corrected almost nothing useful can be done with the property. Correcting it is called succession mutation, or virasat intkal. This is how mutation after […]

Pay Property Tax Online in Punjab 2026: mSeva Portal Step by Step

Most people who want to pay property tax online in Punjab do not have a question about tax law. They have a question about a website. They know they owe something, they cannot find their property on the portal, and they are not sure whether the payment actually went through. This guide is only about […]

Property NOC in Punjab 2026: Rules, Fees and the High Court Order

If you are buying or selling a plot in Punjab, you have probably been told two completely different things. One person says a property NOC in Punjab is no longer needed. Another says the registry office will refuse you without one. Both were true at different points in the last two years, which is exactly […]

Khewat and Khasra: How to Read a Punjab Land Record

Ask most buyers in Punjab what a khewat number is and you get a pause. They have seen one. It was on the fard the dealer handed over, next to several other numbers that also meant nothing, and they nodded and moved on. That fard is the single most important document in the transaction, and […]

GMADA Property Transfer: Moving a Plot Allotment Into Your Name

Buying a plot from an existing allottee is not the same transaction as buying a plot from a private owner. There is a third party involved who has to agree, and if you ignore that, you can complete a perfectly good sale deed and still not be the recognised holder of the plot. GMADA property […]

Lal Lakir in Punjab: Property Rights Inside the Village Red Line

A family in a village outside Jagraon has lived in the same house since the 1950s. Three generations were born in it. Nobody has ever questioned that it is theirs. When the youngest son tried to raise a loan against it to expand his workshop, the bank asked what document proved ownership, and there wasn’t […]

Will Registration in Punjab: Is It Compulsory and How It Works

An elderly man in Patiala wrote his will on plain paper in 2016, signed it, and kept it in a steel almirah. When he died, one son produced it and the other said it was not in their father’s handwriting and that the old man had not been of sound mind by then. Neither claim […]

Building Plan Approval in Punjab: The Online Process and What Gets Checked

A family in Ludhiana built a three storey house on a plot approved for two. Nobody stopped them during construction. The problem surfaced four years later, when the buyer’s bank sent a valuer, the valuer asked for the sanctioned plan, and the sanctioned plan showed a building that did not match the one standing on […]