India, April 24 -- Residents of over 1,500 unauthorised colonies in the city will be able to apply online for registration of their properties through the Swagam portal of the MCD from Friday, officials said.

The Centre earlier this month rolled out a new policy for the regularisation of unauthorised colonies in Delhi on "as is, where is" basis. According to the guidelines, the applicants will log on to the SWAGAM portal of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for registration of their properties in the identified 1,521 unauthorised colonies.

The applications of property owners who have conveyance deeds (properties on government land) or authorisation slips (properties on private land) issued earlier by the Delhi Development Authori...