Karnataka’s Stamps and Registrations Department sees revenue up, but target not met

Amid problems in the registration of properties over e-khata, revenue collection from registrations increased by 13.31% even as the Department of Stamps and Registration failed to meet the target set for the financial year. The number of document registration also came down by 2.16% in the period.

While the target of ₹28,000 crore had been set for 2025-2026, the department was able to collect ₹25,493.79 crore, missing the target by ₹2,506 crore or about 8.9%. The number of documents registered stood at 22.88 lakh, about 50,500 documents less than what were registered in 2024-2025.

The department had missed the target in 2024-2025 too when it mopped up ₹22,498 crore as against the target of ₹26,000 crore.

While the slowdown in Revenue collection had been blamed on delays associated with e khata, the sector had also seen a slowdown.

Now picking up

Government officials said that they were seeing registrations picking up and many delays could fructify during the current financial year. Since November, registrations and Revenue collection that had been affected before, had picked up, sources said.