Land Record Portals State-Wise: Official Sites, Record Names, Signed Copies

A land record portal is the state government website where you can see who is recorded as holding a piece of land, what the plot measures and whether a mortgage or case sits on it. India has no single national land record site: land is a state subject, so each state’s revenue department runs its own portal, and most are built by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). Viewing is free on nearly all of them; what changes from state to state is the portal’s name, the name of the record and the route to a copy a bank will take.

The confusion this page settles is simple. People search for “bhulekh” and expect one website, then land on a lookalike that charges for a free record, or they print a screen copy and find the bank won’t accept it. Below is every state and union territory with its official address checked against the Department of Land Resources list and the portals themselves, a glossary that maps khatiyan to khatauni to 7/12, and the line between a free view and a signed copy.

Land record portals of every state and UT

Twenty-eight states and eight union territories need 36 rows. The Department of Land Resources (DoLR) keeps an official list of each state’s Record of Rights (RoR) address, and each address below was checked against that list and the portal itself on 5 October 2026. Where a state has moved to a newer address, the table gives the one the portal now uses. Thirty rows have a working, verified portal; Manipur has a portal whose record names could not be confirmed; four northeastern states have no RoR portal on the DoLR list; and one row could not be verified.

Six rows need a note. Lakshadweep’s address on the DoLR list (land.utl.gov.in) did not resolve on 5 October 2026, so it’s marked not verified rather than guessed. Manipur’s DoLR link opens a tax payment page on Loucha Pathap, and the record names behind it could not be confirmed. And the four “NA” states aren’t lagging: the Year-End Review 2024 from the Ministry of Rural Development notes that land records don’t exist in parts of the Northeast, especially Autonomous District Council areas, because land there is held by the community. The full DoLR list sits on its citizen-centric services page.

What khatiyan, jamabandi, 7/12 and RTC mean

Most of these names describe the same two or three things. Every state keeps a Record of Rights (RoR), which says who holds the land and on what terms; a plot register, which describes each field; and a mutation register, which logs every change of owner. The names differ because each state inherited its own settlement history, from the zamindari khatiyan of eastern India to the ryotwari patta of the south.

The terms aren’t perfectly interchangeable. A khatiyan in Bihar is a settlement-era document that the jamabandi has since updated, so the two can disagree, and the current jamabandi is the one that shows today’s holder. To help with exactly this, DoLR released a Glossary of Revenue Terms on 31 December 2025, giving meanings of words such as khasra, dag and pula in vernacular, Hindi, English and Roman scripts without replacing the state terms.

How to find your own land record in any state

The search follows the same path almost everywhere. Once you know the revenue hierarchy of your state and hold one number, every portal on the list works the same way.

1. Open the official address from the table, or from your state revenue department’s site. Don’t start from a search-engine ad.
2. Pick the district, then the revenue subdivision. It’s called a tehsil in the north, a circle or anchal in Bihar and Jharkhand, a taluka in Maharashtra and Gujarat, a mandal in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and a hobli within a taluk in Karnataka.
3. Pick the village. Many portals list villages only in the state language, and some let you filter by the first letter.
4. Search by one key: the khata or khatiyan number, the survey, khasra or plot number, or the holder’s name.
5. Read the result on screen. That’s the free view.
6. If a bank, court or registrar needs it, use the portal’s signed or certified copy route.

Keep a few details ready before you start:

• the old and new district names, since several states have created districts recently (Rajasthan’s portal now lists 41 districts);
• the survey number with its sub-division or hissa, written the way the portal wants it;
• the holder’s name as it appears in the old record, not as it’s spelled today;
• a mobile number, because signed copies and online applications run on OTP login.

Most portals also show the village map. If you hold a ULPIN, the 14-digit parcel number explained below, MP Bhulekh and UP Bhulekh already accept it as a search key.

Free view versus certified or digitally signed copy

The free screen copy is for information only. Several portals say this in plain words: Mahabhulekh’s disclaimer states the online 7/12 can’t be used for any government or legal purpose, Apna Khata says its free jamabandi copy can’t be used as a certified copy in any court or office, and UP Bhulekh marks its extract as an unattested copy. Use the free view to check a seller’s claim or your own entry, and nothing more.

For official use you need one of two things. A digitally signed copy carries the revenue officer’s electronic signature and usually a QR code or verification number, and Section 5 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 gives an electronic signature the same legal standing as a handwritten one. A certified copy is the older route, issued by the tehsil or circle office or a common service centre. According to the Ministry of Rural Development’s Year-End Review 2025, citizens in 19 states can now download digitally signed, legally valid land records from home.

The price and route vary by state. A few examples from the member guides:

• Karnataka’s i-RTC prints an original RTC online at Rs 10 per RTC.
• Maharashtra sells signed 7/12 and 8A extracts through a prepaid wallet on digitalsatbara.mahabhumi.gov.in.
• Odisha charges Rs 50 per khata for a certified RoR copy, with a three-day limit under its Right to Public Services law.
• Assam sends certified jamabandi copies through its RTPS portal.
• Chhattisgarh lets you download the B-I and P-II directly once the patwari has signed them.

Whether a particular bank, court or sub-registrar wants a copy of a recent date is that office’s call. Ask before you pay, because a signed copy from last year may not serve a loan file this year.

ULPIN (Bhu-Aadhaar) and DILRMP: where digitization stands

The Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN), also called Bhu-Aadhaar, is a 14-digit number generated from the latitude and longitude of a parcel’s corners. DoLR describes it as following the ECCMA and OGC standards, which means the number points to the ground itself rather than to a register entry. The idea is one permanent identity per plot across land records, registration and courts.

ULPIN has been rolled out in 29 States and UTs, from Andhra Pradesh to the NCT of Delhi, and piloted in Puducherry, Telangana, Manipur and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, as DoLR’s own page lists. The number of parcels covered has grown fast:

• 23 crore parcels, as reported in the Year-End Review 2024 (26 December 2024);
• over 36 crore parcels as of November 2025, per the Year-End Review 2025 (1 January 2026);
• 36.67 crore parcels, per a Ministry of Rural Development release of 13 February 2026.

ULPIN runs under the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP). It began in 2008 as the National Land Records Modernization Programme and became a Central Sector Scheme with full central funding from 1 April 2016. Its extension covered 2021-22 to 2025-26 with an outlay of Rs 875 crore, adding two components: computerization of revenue courts and consent-based linking of Aadhaar with the RoR. For the concepts behind it, from cadastral surveys to conclusive titling, read our note on land records management in India.

The official figures need careful reading, because they measure different things. The 13 February 2026 release puts the share of rural RoRs digitized at 99.8 percent. The Year-End Review 2025 gives RoR computerization as 97.27 percent of villages, cadastral maps digitized at 97.14 percent and text-map integration at only 84.89 percent of villages. That last figure is the one that matters to a buyer: in roughly one village in seven, the online record and the online map aren’t yet linked. The same review reports 88.6 percent of sub-registrar offices integrated with revenue offices, which is what allows automatic mutation after a registered sale.

Common errors on land record portals and their fixes

Most failed searches come from a handful of avoidable slips. Each has a simple fix.

• Record not found after a district split. Villages move when new districts or circles are formed. Search under the new district, and if that fails, the old one; the portal’s village list is the authority.
• Village name won’t match. Portals list villages in the state script. Type the first letter in that script, or scroll the list; Mahabhulekh works only in Marathi, and Tamil Nadu’s portal warns against browser translation because it garbles names.
• Survey number rejected. Sub-divisions follow local formats. Karnataka splits survey 20 into hissas such as 20/1, and Jharbhoomi accepts khata and khesra numbers with a single slash only.
• Name spelled differently. Old records carry the spelling of the settlement era. Search by plot or khata number instead of name, then apply for correction through the state’s route, such as Maharashtra’s e-Hakk or Bihar’s Parimarjan Plus.
• Record missing online. Some entries never made it into the digital register. Assam’s Dharitree tells users not to panic and to contact the circle office, and Bihar Bhumi’s disclaimer says the same; take your paper documents there.
• Payment taken but no copy. Don’t pay twice. Bihar’s and Jharkhand’s land revenue portals both ask users to check the status with the transaction ID first.
• Lookalike websites. Private sites copy portal names and charge for free records. Gujarat’s revenue department states on AnyRoR that it has no other website or app for land records; stick to gov.in and nic.in addresses.

If a portal shows the wrong holder or area, the fix is never on the website. File a correction or mutation application with the circle, tehsil or taluka office named in your state’s guide, and keep the acknowledgement number.

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