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After all if we really want the city to be free of illegal colonies , steps like this need to be taken,” she added. The annual revenue target set by the state government for the stamps and registration department through registries is Rs 1,626 crore. “All over Ghaziabad, the department on an average executes anything between 400 and 500 registries daily. GHAZIABAD: Even as registry of properties in unauthorized colonies in Ghaziabad has been put on hold following the district magistrate’s order, the stamps and registration department is faced with a problem — the list of 321 illegal settlements provided by Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has just the names of owners of properties, and ambiguous mention of places that are different from revenue records. The move is bound to have a bearing on revenue as it will decline drastically,” said an official.However, Verma said, “Similar experiments were done in Haryana and initially the revenue dipped but over time it picked up and the takeaway was that registries of unauthorized colonies fell about 80%..