New Delhi, June 5 -- The land resources department, under the rural development ministry, has initiated a pre-legislative consultative process, inviting public suggestions on the 2025 draft Registration Bill of properties, aimed at tracking the property market comprehensively by expanding the list of documents or property transactions that must be compulsorily registered with the government. The 2025 draft Bill explicitly clarifies the scope of compulsory registration: "One of the key features of the Bill...[is] expanding the scope of compulsory registration to reflect contemporary property and transaction practices. The Bill expands the list to include agreements to sell, powers-of-attorney, sale certificates issued by competent authoritie...