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Land records in India: the official portal for every state

Land records are kept state by state, under a different name in almost every one. This is the list of official portals, and what each one calls the record you are looking for.

Quick answer

Land records in India are kept by each state’s revenue department, and each state has its own portal: UP Bhulekh (upbhulekh.gov.in), Odisha Bhulekh (bhulekh.ori.nic.in), Mahabhulekh in Maharashtra, Bhoomi in Karnataka, Banglarbhumi in West Bengal. The table below lists the official site for every state and union territory that has one, checked link by link.

Key takeaways

  • There is no national land-records portal. Every state runs its own, and the Department of Land Resources keeps the master list.
  • Official portals end in .gov.in or .nic.in (Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu’s dddgov.in is the one exception). Sites with “bhulekh” in a .com or .org name are not the government.
  • Telangana’s portal is Bhu Bharati — it replaced Dharani in April 2025.
  • A record of rights shows who is recorded and for what area. It is not a title deed.

What each state calls its land record, and where to find it

Every link goes to the government portal itself, checked on 22 September 2026 against the Department of Land Resources’ list — which is wrong for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Assam, so those rows use the address the state’s own site links to. The record’s area is usually in hectares or acres; the land area converter turns that into the bigha, katha or guntha your state uses.

Official land-record portals — checked 22 September 2026

Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland have no online record-of-rights portal on the Department of Land Resources’ list; much of the land there is held under community or customary tenure.

Bhulekh, Bhu-Naksha and the registration portal are three different things

Each answers a different question.

PortalIt answers
Bhulekh / record of rightsWho is recorded as holding the land, their share, the area, and the mutations — the text record kept by the state revenue department.
Bhu-NakshaWhere the plot is — the village cadastral map with each survey or khasra number drawn on it.
Registration portal (IGRS, e-Panjiyan, Kaveri)Which deeds were registered and what stamp duty was paid. A registered sale then has to be mutated into the record of rights — the two are separate steps.

Many states now also print a 14-digit ULPIN (Bhu-Aadhaar) on the record — one ID for the parcel that ties the text record to the map.

What a record of rights is — and what it is not

A record of rights is the revenue department’s register of who holds each parcel, in what capacity, over what area, and what they owe in land revenue. It is the first document a buyer, a bank or a court asks for, and it is the thing to check before any land deal. It is not a title deed. Entries are made for revenue purposes and follow registered transactions and inheritance; they do not create ownership, and a wrong entry does not take it away. Read it as strong evidence of possession and of the government’s understanding — and check it against the registered deeds.

Land records — common questions

For a step-by-step walkthrough of a portal and a column-by-column reading of the record it gives you, see Bhulekh UP (the khatauni, with a Hindi version) and Bhulekh Odisha (the RoR).

Is a land record printed from a state portal legally valid?

A copy you view and print yourself is for information. Where a court, a bank or a registrar needs the record, ask the tehsil or revenue office for a certified copy, or use a digitally signed copy where the state issues one. The state guides on this site say which route applies there and what it costs.

What is the difference between khasra, khatauni and jamabandi?

A khasra is the plot — the survey number on the village map and the field register kept against it. A khatauni lists holdings: each khata (account), who holds it, and the khasras in it with their area. Jamabandi is the name Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Bihar and Himachal use for the equivalent record of rights.

Does my name on the record of rights prove I own the land?

No. Revenue entries are kept to collect land revenue and record possession; they do not create or extinguish title. The Supreme Court has said so repeatedly, including in Jitendra Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh (2021): a mutation entry does not confer title. Title rests on the registered documents and, where disputed, a civil court’s decree.

What is ULPIN, or Bhu-Aadhaar?

A 14-digit Unique Land Parcel Identification Number generated from the plot’s map coordinates, so each parcel has one ID across records. The Department of Land Resources says it has been rolled out in 29 States and UTs. Where a state has issued it, it appears on the record of rights alongside the khasra number.

Why can I not find my land on the portal?

Usually one of four reasons: the village is spelled differently in the portal’s list, the owner’s name is recorded in the local script with a different spelling, a mutation after a sale has not been entered yet, or that village’s records have not been digitised. The UP and Odisha guides walk through each case and the offline route.

How can I tell whether a land-records website is official?

Check the address before you type anything. Every official portal in the table on this page is on a government domain — almost all end in .gov.in or .nic.in. Private sites copy the name “Bhulekh” into .com and .org.in addresses, often rank above the real portal, and some ask for payment. None of the official portals charges to view a record.

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