New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha on Tuesday urged Parliament to adopt blockchain technology to reform India’s land and property records. He said the move is necessary to address inefficiencies, corruption, and long-running legal disputes affecting millions of citizens.
Explaining the scale of the problem, Chadha said India’s land records remain deeply fragmented and opaque, forcing ordinary citizens to navigate complex bureaucratic processes while middlemen exploit loopholes in the system.
He pointed out that land-related issues dominate the country’s civil litigation landscape and shared key data to underline the urgency of reform. He said that nearly 66% of all civil disputes in India are related to land matters, while about 45% of properties lack clear ownership titles.
He added that 48% of land parcels are already under dispute and that India ranks 133rd out of 190 countries in terms of efficiency of property registration.
Chadha noted that even routine property transactions can take anywhere between two and six months, and when disputes arise, cases often take an average of seven years to be resolved in civil courts. He further highlighted that around 6.2 crore property documents are still pending digitisation, according to an official statement.
To address these challenges, Chadha proposed the creation of a National Blockchain Property Register. He said such a system would be time-stamped, tamper-proof, and fully transparent, enabling instant title verification and ensuring that every sale, mutation, or inheritance is recorded cleanly and traceably in real time.
In a post on X, the MP said: “India must move from chaos to clarity. From a land record system that creates obstacles to one that prevents them.”
The MP also spoke on the need to reform India’s approach towards Virtual Digital Assets (VDAs), including cryptocurrencies. He argued that while the government taxes VDAs as legal assets, it continues to regulate them as if they were illegal.
Chadha pointed out that India imposes a 30% capital gains tax along with 1% TDS on cryptocurrency transactions, but provides no legal recognition, investor protection framework, or dedicated anti-money laundering regime.
As a result, he said, nearly 12 crore Indians are investing through overseas platforms, ₹4.8 lakh crore worth of VDA trading has moved offshore, 73% of trading volume has shifted to foreign exchanges, and around 180 Indian crypto startups have relocated abroad. economic potential.
