India, Dec. 10 -- In a landmark move ending decades of hardship for urban homeowners, Maharashtra has passed the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2025, freeing nearly three crore citizens from restrictive fragmentation laws that prevented them from securing legal land titles or selling small plots.

Approved on December 9, the amendment brings long-awaited relief to around 60 lakh families who have lived in legal uncertainty despite owning homes for generations. Under the old rules, countless citizens occupied tiny urban plots yet remained excluded from land records, and transactions on parcels as small as 5-10 gunthas were nearly impossible due to repeated non-agricultural (NA) permissions and procedural hurdles.

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