Jamabandi Nakal / Apna Khata Land Record in Rajasthan

What is the land record called in Rajasthan?

In Rajasthan the land record is the Jamabandi, and the copy you take away is the Nakal. The Board of Revenue (Rajasva Mandal), Rajasthan, headquartered at Todarmal Marg, Civil Lines, Ajmer, maintains it, and publishes it online through the Apna Khata portal at apnakhata.rajasthan.gov.in, built under the Centre's Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP).

A Rajasthan jamabandi entry tells you:

• the khata number, the account of everything one khatedar holds in that village
• the khasra numbers inside that khata, field by field
• the area of each khasra, in bigha-biswa or hectares depending on the district
• the khatedar's name, with father's name
• the share where the holding is joint
• the type of khatedari and the land revenue assessed
• remarks, where mortgages, court orders and pending proceedings sit

Apna Khata is unusual among state portals in stating plainly that the copies it shows are free and are for general information only; not to be used as certified copies in courts and offices. Reading that line early saves a wasted trip.

Who can get a Rajasthan land record?

You can view or apply if:

• You are the khatedar recorded in the jamabandi.
• You are a co-sharer in a joint khata.
• You are a prospective buyer verifying a holding before paying advance.
• You are a farmer who needs the record for a crop loan, Kisan Credit Card, crop insurance or an agriculture subsidy application.
• You are a legal heir of a deceased khatedar, applying for namantaran by inheritance.
• You are a bank, co-operative society or advocate verifying title.
• You are any member of the public, the Apna Khata public view is open, needs no login and asks for no reason.

You cannot apply, or cannot get what you want, if:

• You cannot search without village and khata or khasra. Apna Khata is organised district → tehsil → village → khata, and there is no address search.
• You cannot get a court-usable certified copy from the free view. The portal itself says so.
• You cannot correct an entry online. Namantaran, correction and partition are decided by the revenue officer, not by the website.
• You cannot apply for namantaran without a legal basis. A registered deed, a succession, a decree or a partition agreement.
• You cannot use a jamabandi as conclusive title. It is a revenue record and presumptive evidence; the deed chain and registration records matter equally.

What details and documents are required?

How to get a Jamabandi Nakal in Rajasthan online

1. Open apnakhata.rajasthan.gov.in, the Board of Revenue's land records portal.
2. Select your district from the state map or the list, then the tehsil, then the village (gram). Each level loads only after the one above it.
3. Choose how to search; by khata number, by khasra number, or by the khatedar's name. Khata gives you the whole holding; khasra gives you one field.
4. Open the entry and read all of it, including the remarks column and the share fractions. In a joint khata your name appearing is not the same as the whole area being yours.
5. Print or save the Nakal. This free copy is fine for personal checking and for uploading to state agriculture and welfare portals that accept it.
6. For a copy an office will accept, use an e-Mitra kiosk or the tehsil, because the Apna Khata free view is marked as information only.

How to apply for namantaran, seema gyan or vibhajan

Apna Khata is not only a viewer. The portal lists three citizen applications:

1. Namantaran (mutation), to move the khatedari entry to the buyer, the heir or the donee after a registered deed, a death or a decree. Select the village and khata, enter the applicant details, attach the deed or the death certificate and heir details, and submit with an OTP.
2. Seema gyan (demarcation) — to ask the revenue staff to physically mark the boundary of a holding, which is what you file when a neighbour has encroached or the boundary is disputed on the ground.
3. Vibhajan (partition), to divide a joint khata by consent among the co-sharers, so that each holds a defined khata rather than a fraction.

Each application produces a number. Save it: Apna Khata's status tracking works on that number, and without it the tehsil cannot trace your file either.

How to get a Rajasthan land record offline

1. Go to the Patwari of the halqa, who holds the working record for the village, or to the tehsil office record room.
2. Ask for a Nakal of the jamabandi, giving the village, khata or khasra number and the jamabandi year.
3. Pay only the notified fee at the counter or at the e-Mitra kiosk, and take a printed receipt. e-Mitra kiosks are the state's authorised common service points and display their service charges.
4. Collect the signed copy, and check the khasra numbers and areas against your own deed before you leave the counter.

How do I check application status and what does it cost?

Status for namantaran, seema gyan and vibhajan is tracked on Apna Khata itself using the application number issued at submission. For a file that has stopped moving, the escalation is the Patwari, then the Girdawar/Kanungo, then the Tehsildar, then the Sub Divisional Officer, and for contested matters the Revenue Court and ultimately the Board of Revenue at Ajmer.

On cost: the Apna Khata view is free, as the portal states, and any signed or certified copy costs only the notified fee charged at the e-Mitra kiosk or the tehsil counter, against a receipt. Agents outside Rajasthan tehsils charge several hundred rupees to open a free public web page. No officer can alter a jamabandi entry for money, no namantaran moves faster because a middleman filed it, and nobody needs your Aadhaar OTP to print a Nakal.

Why do Rajasthan land record requests go wrong?

• Wrong village selected where two villages in a district share a name.
• Searching by name when the jamabandi carries an older spelling or the father's name differently.
• Assuming a registered sale updated the record, without namantaran, the jamabandi still shows the seller.
• Ignoring the share fraction in a joint khata and assuming the whole area.
• Using the free printout where a certified copy was required, and having it refused.
• Missing the remarks column, where a mortgage or a stay order is written.

Grievance and contact route

• Board of Revenue, Rajasthan, Todarmal Marg, Civil Lines, Ajmer to 0145-2627891, email bor-rj[at]nic[dot]in
• Village level: the Patwari of the halqa
• Circle level: the Girdawar/Kanungo
• Tehsil level: the Tehsildar, for namantaran and correction orders
• Sub-division level: the Sub Divisional Officer
• District level: the District Collector

Carry the khata and khasra numbers, the village name and the application number to any of these offices. Without the khasra number no Rajasthan revenue office can identify the land.