Karnataka Government Discontinues UPOR Property Cards in Mangaluru

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Mangaluru : The Karnataka State Government has officially discontinued the Urban Property Ownership Records (UPOR) system popularly known as the Property Card scheme—in Mangaluru. Introduced in 2009 to maintain comprehensive property details, the project’s suspension renders over 75,000 property cards issued across Mangaluru inactive for legal and property transactions. While the UPOR project was implemented in multiple cities across Karnataka, Mangaluru is currently the only city where it has been withdrawn. Moving forward, citizens will no longer be required to procure these property cards for urban real estate transactions.

The state government’s decision comes as e-Khata has been made compulsory for all urban local body properties across Karnataka for registration purposes. Since every urban property is assigned either an A-Khata or a B-Khata under the e-Khata framework, maintaining separate, overlapping documents like UPOR property cards, RTCs (Pahani), and e-Khatas for the same property often created confusion and increased the risk of fraudulent registrations. To streamline property ownership records and avoid duplicate documentation, the government ordered that e-Khata remain the sole valid document for non-agricultural property transactions.

Following the state directive, access to the UPOR software system has been blocked, preventing officials from accessing or reprinting previously generated property cards or boundary maps. UPOR office personnel clarified that UPOR property cards will now only be processed for purely agricultural lands in 37 designated villages where e-Khata cannot be issued, subject to field verification and approval from the Deputy Director of Land Records (DDLR). South Canara DDLR Pushparaj confirmed that since most of the 37 villages fall under the urban master plan, e-Khata will now serve as the mandatory standard for property registrations.