Land Record Extract in Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Dweep Bhoomi and Form-F ROR)

What is a land record extract in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands?

A land record extract in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the Form-F extract, the Record of Rights maintained by the Department of Revenue, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Administration. Form-F is issued holding-number wise for a village and shows who is recorded as holding the land, the survey numbers in the holding, the area, the classification and the revenue.

Different states call this different things; khatian in Tripura, jamabandi in Punjab and Haryana, RTC in Karnataka, 7/12 in Maharashtra, pahani in the Telugu states. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands call it Form-F, and asking a tehsil office for a "bhulekh" will get you a blank look.

The UT publishes this through Dweep Bhoomi at dweepbhoomi.andamannicobar.gov.in, described on the portal as a web application devised by Revenue department for enabling online integration with Registration and Survey departments thereby creating an electronically enabled backbone for the effective management of land records in the UT. Dweep Bhoomi is content-owned by the Department of Revenue with the Deputy Commissioner Office, South Andaman, and developed by the National Informatics Centre.

What sits on the Dweep Bhoomi menu?

Dweep Bhoomi's top menu carries View ROR, NGDRS, Bhashini, Bhunaksha, Property Card and District Portal, plus separate logins for organisations, counters, the revenue department and CSC or other operators.

• View ROR opens the Land Records Form-F application at db.and.nic.in/anlandrecords, titled Land Records on Web; Form-F Extract (ROR), with holding-number-wise search.
• Property Card opens db.and.nic.in/propertycard.
• Bhunaksha opens the cadastral map service.
• NGDRS opens onlineregistrationani.gov.in, the deed registration system for the UT.
• Bhashini is the national language translation service, which is a sensible inclusion in islands where households speak Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Nicobarese.

The service tiles on the home page list the land services and, usefully, whether each is running online or offline right now.

Which land services are online, and which are not?

Dweep Bhoomi is honest about this on its own home page, and it saves a wasted trip:

Online:

• Mutation: updating ownership details in the land record.
• Demarcation, defining and marking land boundaries.
• Diversion: changing land use.

Offline mode:

• Sub Division; dividing a holding into smaller parcels.
• Mortgage; registering or managing a mortgage entry.
• NOR Change, changing the nature of rights recorded.
• Owner Correction: correcting an error in the owner's details.
• Soil Classification Correction and Land Category Correction.
• LR Correction; correction of land revenue.
• Record Entry, digitisation of a survey number.

If your problem is a misspelt name, a wrong land category or an undigitised survey number, expect a counter visit. If it is a mutation after a purchase or inheritance, expect to be able to file it from home.

Who can get a land record extract in the islands?

You can apply if:

• You are the recorded holder of land in South Andaman, North and Middle Andaman or Nicobar district.
• You are a prospective buyer verifying a holding before paying an advance.
• You are a legal heir applying for mutation after a death.
• You are a farmer who needs the Form-F for a crop loan, an agriculture department scheme or insurance.
• You are any member of the public using the View ROR service, which asks for no login and no reason.

You cannot apply if, the real limits in this UT are unusual and worth reading carefully:

• You cannot search without the holding number, district, tehsil and village. Form-F is organised by holding, not by owner name.
• You cannot get a Form-F for land that is not private holding, including government land, forest land and much of the area under the Andaman and Nicobar's protected and tribal reserves.
• You cannot buy land freely in tribal reserve areas. The islands have protected tribal reserves under specific regulations, and no revenue record or registration will validate a transaction the law does not permit. Check with the Deputy Commissioner's office before parting with money.
• You cannot treat Form-F as a title deed. Much island land is held on lease or allotment from the Administration, and the tenure matters as much as the entry.
• You cannot fix a wrong entry through the ROR view. That is an owner correction or record entry case, and both are currently offline.

What do you need before you start?

How to get a Form-F land record extract online

1. Open dweepbhoomi.andamannicobar.gov.in and click View ROR in the top menu. This opens the Land Records Form-F application. No account is needed for this.
2. Select the District: South Andaman, Nicobar, or North and Middle Andaman.
3. Select the Tehsil, then the Village. Each list loads from the one above it.
4. Choose the Holding No from the dropdown. Because the holdings are listed rather than typed, you can find yours by scanning the list if you have forgotten the exact number.
5. Choose your Language. The screen offers English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, Punjabi, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, Assamese, Odia, Manipuri, Nepali, Urdu and others.
6. Submit and read the Form-F extract — the recorded holder, the survey numbers, the area and the classification.
7. Open Bhunaksha and the Property Card from the Dweep Bhoomi menu for the same land, so that the record, the map and the property card agree.
8. Save the extract, and note the holding number for any application you file later.

How to apply for mutation, demarcation or diversion

1. Create a citizen account. Dweep Bhoomi's own instructions are to click Sign Up, open the New Registration Form, fill the mandatory fields and receive a User ID and password.
2. Log in through Citizen Login with those credentials and the captcha.
3. Choose the service from your dashboard, mutation, demarcation or diversion are the ones currently marked online.
4. Attach the supporting papers. Dweep Bhoomi publishes a Registration and Service Requirements checklist as a downloadable PDF and as a service-wise list, so check the requirement for your service before you start rather than guessing.
5. Pay the applicable fee. The portal publishes a Fee Structure document covering all online services, and a fees section page. Pay only what that document shows.
6. Track the application from your dashboard.
7. For the offline services; sub-division, mortgage, nature of right change, owner correction, soil or land category correction, land revenue correction and record entry, apply at the tehsil office or the Deputy Commissioner's revenue branch for your district.

How long is a Form-F extract valid?

A Form-F extract carries no expiry date, but it reflects the record only as of the day it is generated. A mutation, a sub-division, a diversion or a correction changes it.

Island banks, cooperative societies and government departments therefore ask for a recently generated Form-F, and a buyer should pull it again immediately before completing a purchase. There is no renewal step and nothing to pay for the view. Where a mutation has been filed, wait for the case to close before pulling the extract again, that is when the new holder's name appears.

Why do island land record searches go wrong?

• Wrong tehsil or village selected, giving an empty holding list that gets misread as "no record exists".
• Holding number confusion where a holding has been sub-divided among heirs and the old number no longer covers the whole family's land.
• Assuming registration completed the mutation. Registering a deed on NGDRS does not by itself change Form-F; mutation is a separate application.
• Ignoring the tenure. Leasehold and allotted land in the islands is not the same as freehold, and Form-F alone will not tell you the whole story.
• Attempting a transaction in a tribal reserve area, which no amount of paperwork can regularise.
• Filing for an offline service online, when the portal has already marked that tile as offline mode.
• Reading the record without the map. Bhunaksha and the Property Card exist on the same menu for a reason.

What does it cost, and what should you refuse to pay?

The View ROR Form-F extract is free and needs no login. For the transactional services, Dweep Bhoomi publishes a Fee Structure document and a fees section page, and that published fee; paid through the portal; is the only legitimate charge. Counter services at the tehsil office cost only the notified fee, against a receipt.

Agents around the Deputy Commissioner's office in Port Blair and around tehsil offices in Mayabunder, Rangat, Diglipur and Car Nicobar offer to "get the Form-F" or "clear the mutation" for a few thousand rupees. They are selecting the same district, tehsil, village and holding number on the same free public page. There is no priority queue on Dweep Bhoomi, and no officer can enter a name into Form-F without a mutation order. Never share your Dweep Bhoomi User ID and password, and never accept a Form-F extract that did not come from the official portal or a tehsil counter.

Grievance and helpline route

• Dweep Bhoomi help desk email, dweepbhoomi.helpdesk@gmail.com, published on the portal
• Portal, dweepbhoomi.andamannicobar.gov.in, which carries the requirements checklist, the fee structure, a help page and a feedback form
• Local level, the Tehsildar for the tehsil where the land lies
• District level, the Deputy Commissioner's revenue branch, with the South Andaman Deputy Commissioner Office owning the Dweep Bhoomi content
• UT level, the Department of Revenue, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Administration
• Other citizen services, the UT's ServicePlus e-services portal at eservices.andamannicobar.gov.in

Carry the district, tehsil, village and holding number to each of these. Without the holding number, no island revenue office can trace your land.

How to check your application status

Checking a Form-F extract needs no status check at all, the View ROR page shows the record the moment you submit district, tehsil, village and holding number. Status checking only matters once you have filed a mutation, demarcation or diversion request through Citizen Login, or handed papers over the counter for an offline service.

For services filed online (mutation, demarcation, diversion):

1. Log in to dweepbhoomi.andamannicobar.gov.in with your citizen User ID and password.
2. Open the dashboard and look for your application under its service name and reference number.
3. The dashboard shows the stage the case is at, whether it is pending with the Tehsildar, sent for field verification, or approved and updated in the record.
4. Once the dashboard shows the case closed, pull a fresh Form-F extract through View ROR to confirm the change actually reflects in the record. A case marked closed on the dashboard and a Form-F that still shows the old holder is a mismatch worth raising with the Tehsildar directly.

For services filed offline (sub-division, mortgage, NOR change, owner correction, soil or land category correction, LR correction, record entry):

1. Keep the acknowledgement or receipt issued at the tehsil counter. It carries the case number that every follow-up depends on.
2. Follow up with the same Tehsildar's office where the papers were filed, quoting the case number, district, tehsil, village and holding number.
3. If the Tehsildar's office cannot give a clear answer, escalate to the Deputy Commissioner's revenue branch for the district.
4. Since these services have no online tracker, a written or emailed enquiry to the Tehsildar leaves a paper trail that a purely verbal enquiry does not.

There is no SMS alert or status-tracking number published for Dweep Bhoomi. The dashboard (for online services) and the Tehsildar's office (for offline services) are the only two places a status genuinely lives.

Common reasons for rejection

Form-F itself cannot be "rejected", it either shows a record or it does not. Rejection applies to the transactional services filed through Citizen Login or at the tehsil counter. The recurring reasons an island land application gets sent back:

• Mutation filed without a registered deed on NGDRS. Registering a sale or gift deed at the sub-registrar and updating the land record are two separate systems. A mutation request unsupported by a matching NGDRS registration entry gets returned for the deed to be produced first.

• Documents not matching the Registration and Service Requirements checklist. Dweep Bhoomi publishes a specific checklist per service. Uploading a generic set of papers instead of the ones listed for that exact service (mutation, demarcation or diversion each has its own list) is a common cause of return. Check the published checklist for the specific service before filing, not a checklist for a different service.

• Holding number mismatch between the application and the current record. If the holding has since been sub-divided, or the number entered belongs to an adjoining holding, the application does not match anything the Tehsildar can act on. Pull a fresh Form-F first and copy the holding number exactly as it appears there.

• Disputed or unclear title. Where more than one person claims the same holding, or a partition among heirs has not been formally recorded, an owner correction or mutation is held pending a civil court decision or a formal family settlement rather than rejected outright, but it will not move until the dispute is resolved.

• Land falling in a tribal reserve or protected area. No mutation, correction or transaction request for land inside the Andaman and Nicobar's protected tribal reserves will be processed, regardless of the papers submitted, because such transactions are barred by regulation rather than blocked by paperwork.

• Fee not paid, or paid against the wrong service. The portal's Fee Structure document lists a fee per service; paying an unrelated or incorrect amount, or paying outside the portal for an online service, leaves the application without a valid payment reference and it stalls until corrected.

• Applying online for a service still running in offline mode. Sub-division, mortgage, NOR change, owner correction, soil or land category correction, LR correction and record entry are not available through Citizen Login. An online submission for any of these is not actionable and needs to be re-filed at the tehsil counter instead.

The fix in every case is the same: confirm the holding number against a fresh Form-F, use the checklist and fee document published for that exact service, and route offline-only services to the tehsil counter rather than the portal.