Maharashtra: Housing society registration to go online this year, with fewer documents
January 1, 2026
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Maharashtra’s cooperation department is launching an online system for housing society registration, reducing mandatory documents from 29 to 19. This move aims to simplify the process, cut down office visits, and curb middlemen’s intervention. The new system, hosted on the ‘Aaple Sarkar’ portal, is expected to significantly increase registrations and empower residents.
PUNE: The state cooperation department will launch an online system for housing societies’ registration from this year, reducing the number of mandatory documents from 29 to 19.
The move aims to simplify the long-pending paperwork-heavy process, cut down visits to deputy registrars’ offices, curb middlemen’s intervention, and speed up approvals across the state. A formal notification detailing the new procedure is expected next week. Officials expect a significant increase in cooperative societies’ registration after the online system goes live in the first week of January.
Under the revised norms, housing societies will have to submit only core documents related to land ownership, construction approvals, promoter details, and registered agreements. Ten documents, including zoning certificate, title search report, development agreement, business projection plan, and multiple affidavits, would be dropped from the documents list in the online process.
“Society registration was a cumbersome process for years because of excessive documentation and repeated office visits. The new online system, hosted on the Aaple Sarkar web portal, will apply to all cooperative societies, including housing societies. It will also allow them to amend bye-laws. Combined with the reduced document list, this will make the process simpler, transparent and citizen-friendly,” commissioner of cooperation Deepak Taware told TOI.
Another senior official said the platform on Aaple Sarkar portal would allow applicants to upload documents, track application status, and receive approvals digitally, reducing delays caused by manual scrutiny.
The initiative comes amid concerns over delayed registration of housing societies because of paperwork. According to the state cooperation department, only about 1.25 lakh housing societies are registered in the state. In major urban centres such as Mumbai and Pune, registration backlogs continue. Lack of building completion certificates often hinders registration with the state cooperation department.
Cooperation commissioner Taware said, “Our goal is to bring maximum services to around one lakh registered societies and streamline finance, tax, and compliance processes across the state. This reform will strengthen the cooperative housing framework.”
Housing society functioning witnessed the reform, saying excessive documentation discouraged residents from initiating the registration process. “Many societies were stuck for years because builders did not complete or hand over conveyance deeds, file share certificates, or submit occupation certificates. Fewer documents and the online process will empower societies to take charge of the registration themselves,” said a senior office-bearer of a city-level federation.
In another measure, Maharashtra trimmed hurdles of compliance. Online registration with limited documents will significantly reduce such complications.
The cooperation department officials clarified that while the number of documents for online registration has been reduced, essential legal requirements would remain intact. “We have retained all essential documents needed to establish the legitimacy of a society and removed those that were repetitive or could be verified through other government records,” an official said.
Source: realty.economictimes.indiatimes
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