Mumbai, 24th December 2025 : In a significant step towards coordinated and reform-oriented land
administration, the District Collector, Mumbai City, Aanchal Goyal, and the
District Collector, Mumbai Suburban, Saurabh Katiyar, held a collective meeting
with a Joint Task Force comprising representatives of CREDAI-MCHI, NAREDCO, BDA
and PEATA, along with senior officials from both Collectorates.
Setting the tone for the discussions, District
Collector, Mumbai City, Aanchal Goyal, stated that the issues raised by the
industry—particularly on royalty applicability, procedural timelines, and
duplication of surveys—are substantive and warrant systemic correction. She
noted that both Collectorates are committed to introducing clear, SOP-driven
mechanisms that simplify processes, reduce ambiguity, and ensure consistency
while maintaining statutory compliance.
District Collector, Mumbai Suburban, Saurabh
Katiyar, emphasized that bringing both City and
Suburban Collectorates together in a single forum enables coordinated
governance and uniform decision-making. He confirmed that suggestions such as
unified physical surveys, streamlined amalgamation and subdivision procedures,
and improved transparency in land records would be examined through a
structured institutional mechanism to ensure practical and time-bound
implementation.
The meeting marked one of the first such joint
engagements where multiple real estate associations deliberated collectively
with both Collectorates. The Collectors appreciated the unified and
solution-oriented representations made by the industry for the larger public
and economic good.
Mr. Rushi Mehta, Secretary CREDAI MCHI and Mr. Manan Shah led the wide ranging discussions
which included the applicability of royalty on excavated soil, especially the
need to exclude royalty where material is not transported outside the project
site, as well as challenges relating to short validity periods, inaccuracies in
excavation quantity calculations, and approval delays. Both Collectors assured
that simplified and time-bound SOPs for royalty permissions would be introduced
to comprehensively address these concerns.
Deliberations also focused on prolonged timelines for
amalgamation and subdivision proposals, with assurances that dedicated SOPs
would be framed to significantly curtail delays. Another major reform discussed
was the introduction of a single, unified physical survey usable for multiple purposes
such as NA permissions, demarcation, amalgamation/subdivision, and handover of
amenities, thereby avoiding duplication and repeated site visits.
Commenting on behalf of the industry, Mr.
Sukhraj Nahar, President, CREDAI – MCHI said, “The issues raised
today—royalty applicability, procedural delays, duplication of surveys, and
approval timelines—are genuine and long-pending. The joint commitment of both
Collectorates to SOP-driven processes, unified surveys, and a steering
committee reflects a shared intent to deliver practical, time-bound reforms
that improve ease of doing business while strengthening transparency and
governance.”
Adding to this, Mr. Kamlesh Thakur, President
Elect, NAREDCO Maharashtra observed, “This meeting marks a
decisive shift towards collaborative policymaking. SOP-led clarity on royalty,
surveys, and approvals will significantly enhance predictability and confidence
across the real estate ecosystem.”
Supporting the initiative, Mr. Vikram Mehta,
President, BDA, and Mr. Sandip Isore, President, PEATA, noted
that unified procedures and streamlined approvals would meaningfully reduce
procedural redundancies and operational delays.
The Joint Task Force reaffirmed its commitment to
continued engagement with the administration to ensure that these discussions
translate into tangible, on-ground reforms across Mumbai’s real estate sector
and towards that end a steering committee would be formed which would include
officers from the office of the Collector and various ancillary departments to
deliberate and streamline procedural bottlenecks and suggest policy changes to
be implemented at either the Collector level or recommended to Government for
further necessary action.
