Property Mutation (Dakhil-Kharij) in Andhra Pradesh

What is property mutation in Andhra Pradesh?

Property mutation in Andhra Pradesh is the updating of the land record to show a new pattadar: recorded landholder, after land has passed by sale, inheritance, gift, partition, court decree or government assignment. The Revenue Department of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, headed by the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA), owns the process, and it is executed at the mandal level by the Tahsildar with the village revenue staff.

Andhra Pradesh runs two connected systems that a landholder deals with. Webland, at webland.ap.gov.in, is the departmental land records system; its front page is a district selection login gateway, and it separately offers "LPM Number Based Services (Enabled For Resurveyed Villages)", reflecting the state's large-scale land resurvey that allots each parcel a Land Parcel Map number. Meebhoomi, at meebhoomi.ap.gov.in, is the public-facing portal where any citizen can pull the adangal and the 1-B extract for a survey number, the two records that actually show whether a mutation has happened. The CCLA site at ccla.ap.gov.in links Meebhoomi directly under the heading "Check your Land Details".

The record you want changed is therefore the adangal and the 1-B, and the physical artefacts you receive at the end are a fresh pattadar passbook and title deed in your name.

Who is eligible to apply for mutation in Andhra Pradesh?

Anyone who has acquired an interest in agricultural land through a recognised route may apply. That covers a purchaser under a registered sale deed executed before an Andhra Pradesh Sub-Registrar; a legal heir of a deceased pattadar applying on the strength of a death certificate and a legal heir or family member certificate; a donee under a registered gift deed; co-sharers giving effect to a registered partition; a decree-holder under a court order; and an assignee under a government land assignment, subject to the conditions of that assignment.

Several categories cannot apply. A person holding only an agreement of sale, a general power of attorney, or an unregistered saada bainama paper transfer has no registered instrument and is not eligible for a routine mutation, Andhra Pradesh has periodically run separate regularisation drives for old unregistered transfers, and outside such a notified drive the ordinary mutation route is closed to them. Land under a pending dispute, an injunction or a revenue-court proceeding cannot be mutated until that ends. Assigned land carrying a prohibition on alienation cannot be mutated into a purchaser's name. Land listed in the prohibited-property register maintained for registration purposes will not move. And a buyer of a flat or plot inside a municipal or corporation area is applying to the wrong office, that property is mutated in the urban local body's property-tax record, not in the adangal.

Which documents do I need for mutation in Andhra Pradesh?

The essentials are the registered transfer deed, the existing pattadar passbook and title deed of the person losing the entry, the current adangal and 1-B pulled from Meebhoomi, and your Aadhaar. Andhra Pradesh treats Aadhaar seeding of pattadars as a distinct workstream. The CCLA site lists "Pattadar Aadhaar Seeding to Land Records" as its own citizen service, so the Aadhaar of every person entering the record should be ready. Inheritance mutations additionally need the death certificate and a legal heir or family member certificate. The complete list is in the documents table above.

Quote your land identifiers exactly as the record holds them: district, mandal, village, survey number and sub-division. If your village has been resurveyed, use the LPM number, because Webland's resurveyed-village services are keyed to it.

How to apply for property mutation in Andhra Pradesh

Follow these steps:

1. Download the current adangal and 1-B. Go to meebhoomi.ap.gov.in and pull the adangal and the 1-B extract for the survey number. This confirms who is recorded today, what extent is recorded, and whether any note or dispute is already sitting on the parcel. Do this before you pay anything to anyone.
2. Complete registration of the transfer. Execute and register the sale, gift or partition deed before the jurisdictional Sub-Registrar with correct stamp duty. Andhra Pradesh links registration and revenue records, and mutation follows registration. It cannot precede it.
3. File the mutation application with the Tahsildar / MRO. Submit the mutation application at the mandal Tahsildar's office, or through the village or ward secretariat that serves as the citizen counter, enclosing the registered deed, the old pattadar passbook and title deed, the adangal and 1-B, Aadhaar, and for inheritance the death certificate and legal heir certificate. Pay only the fee the counter or portal displays — the CCLA portal lists "Mutations for Corrections" at Rs 500, and collect the receipt.
4. Cooperate with the field verification and notice period. The Village Revenue Officer and the revenue inspector verify possession and extent on the ground, and notice is issued so that any interested party can object. Objections convert the file into a contested matter heard by the Tahsildar.
5. Collect the new pattadar passbook and verify on Meebhoomi. Once the Tahsildar passes the mutation order, a fresh pattadar passbook and title deed are issued in your name and the earlier one is cancelled. Then go back to meebhoomi.ap.gov.in and download the adangal and 1-B again. Your name appearing there is the real confirmation.

How do I check my mutation status in Andhra Pradesh?

The most reliable check is a fresh download of the adangal and 1-B from meebhoomi.ap.gov.in. Both are free to view, both are keyed to the survey number, and both are the records that a bank, a buyer or a court will actually look at. If your name is on the 1-B for that survey number, the mutation is done; if it is not, the mutation is not done regardless of what any receipt says.

For departmental status, the mandal Tahsildar's office can look up the file on Webland, which is organised by district login. Where your village has completed the resurvey, ask them to check under the LPM number using Webland's LPM number based services. Keep the acknowledgement number from your application, because that is what the office uses to locate the file.

How much does mutation cost in Andhra Pradesh, and who should I pay?

Pay only what the government's own portal or counter charges, and take the receipt every time. The Chief Commissioner of Land Administration's portal at ccla.ap.gov.in publishes a short citizen-services list with prices, and on it "Mutations for Corrections" is listed at Rs 500. The same list shows Pattadar Aadhaar Seeding to Land Records at Rs 5,000 and Land Conversion (Agriculture to Non-Agriculture) at Rs 10,000 with a stated duration of 12–14 days, useful context, because a conversion is a different service from a mutation and is priced very differently. Adangal and 1-B downloads on Meebhoomi are free.

Do not hand cash to a middleman. Every step above: downloading the adangal, filing at the Tahsildar's office or the village secretariat, and collecting the passbook: is a citizen-facing counter service with a published charge. A broker offering to "get the passbook made" for a large sum is selling access that costs Rs 500 on the official list. Andhra Pradesh also publicises the toll-free number 14400 for reporting corruption.

Does the mutation or the pattadar passbook need renewal?

The mutation entry itself does not expire and needs no renewal, it stands until the land changes hands again. The pattadar passbook is a physical booklet and can be reissued if lost, damaged or filled up, and it is reissued after every mutation because the holder has changed. The adangal is a living record refreshed each season with crop details, so download it periodically to check that your name, extent and classification are still correctly recorded, particularly in the years immediately after a resurvey when LPM numbers are being reconciled with old survey numbers.

Why do mutation applications get rejected in Andhra Pradesh?

The dominant reason is an unregistered transfer. A saada bainama, an agreement of sale or a power of attorney does not support a routine mutation. Extent mismatches between the deed and the adangal come second, and usually need a survey to resolve. Inheritance cases fail where the legal heir certificate does not cover all the heirs, or where one heir objects. Assigned land with alienation conditions, land in the prohibited-property register, and land under acquisition or dispute are all blocked by law rather than by paperwork. Aadhaar mismatches between the applicant's document and the seeding record stall files at the verification stage. And applications filed for urban flats and plots are rejected because those properties have no adangal entry at all.

Where do I complain about a delayed or wrong mutation in Andhra Pradesh?

Escalate inside the revenue chain first: from the Village Revenue Officer to the Tahsildar of the mandal, then to the Revenue Divisional Officer, and then to the District Collector. The office of the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration is the apex land-records authority, and its portal publishes the contact email ccla-as-cmro@ap.gov.in. Where you believe money has been demanded for a service that carries a published fee, Andhra Pradesh publicises the toll-free number 14400 for corruption complaints. For a contested entry: where another party claims the land, the remedy is an appeal or a civil suit, not a repeat mutation application, because the Revenue Department will not decide a disputed title through the mutation process.