Bhoodan land check by survey number
பூமிதான நிலமா? சர்வே எண் மூலம் சரிபார்ப்பு
Land given in the Bhoodan movement belongs to the state's Bhoodan Yagna Board, and a private seller cannot pass title to it: the Sub-Registrar is bound to refuse the deed. No portal publishes which parcels those are. The revenue registers do, quietly, by naming the Board as the holder. Enter a survey number and we search for that name.
Can you check whether land is Bhoodan land from a survey number?
Partly, and this page does the part that can be done. Under the Tamil Nadu Bhoodan Yagna Act 1958 every donated parcel vests in the Tamil Nadu State Bhoodan Yagna Board, and the Board stands as the recorded holder on the land it has not yet granted out. We read the revenue A-register of every village and the town survey register of every town for that name, in all its spellings, and hold 7,325 such parcels across 1,729 villages and 27 towns in 36 districts. A survey number is checked against that list, exact sub-division first, then its siblings.
What it cannot do is clear a parcel. Land the Board has already distributed carries the beneficiary's name, so it is invisible here, and the only proof for that land is the donation deed in the old encumbrance certificate or the grant order. An empty result therefore reads "no indicator", never "not Bhoodan". Register read 13 Oct 2026.
Search the register for the Board
Pick the place the way the patta or TSLR extract names it, then the survey number. Leave the survey number blank to list every Board-held parcel recorded in that village or town.
Free, no login. A match shows the holder exactly as the register records it, so you can read the same entry on the patta or TSLR extract.
Where the register records the Board
Districts by the number of parcels the revenue registers record as held by the Bhoodan Yagna Board, and the villages and towns they sit in.
- Madurai 884 parcels in 114 places
- Erode 797 parcels in 76 places
- Kancheepuram 781 parcels in 154 places
- Tiruppur 629 parcels in 54 places
- Chengalpattu 416 parcels in 84 places
- Dindigul 404 parcels in 38 places
- Thoothukkudi 351 parcels in 75 places
- Sivagangai 330 parcels in 58 places
- Thiruvarur 313 parcels in 57 places
- Thanjavur 281 parcels in 97 places
- Virudhunagar 256 parcels in 38 places
- Theni 254 parcels in 29 places
- Salem 200 parcels in 42 places
- Tirunelveli 189 parcels in 30 places
- Dharmapuri 132 parcels in 53 places
- Cuddalore 125 parcels in 32 places
- Coimbatore 121 parcels in 23 places
- Karur 120 parcels in 12 places
- Tiruchirappalli 120 parcels in 43 places
- Krishnagiri 101 parcels in 42 places
- Perambalur 98 parcels in 36 places
- Viluppuram 76 parcels in 40 places
- Pudukkottai 75 parcels in 22 places
- Kanniyakumari 58 parcels in 27 places
- Tiruvallur 56 parcels in 28 places
- Tenkasi 53 parcels in 13 places
- Ariyalur 17 parcels in 4 places
- Kallakurichi 16 parcels in 11 places
- Nagapattinam 16 parcels in 7 places
- The Nilgiris 14 parcels in 3 places
- Mayiladuthurai 13 parcels in 4 places
- Ramanathapuram 11 parcels in 4 places
- Tiruvannamalai 7 parcels in 3 places
- Ranipet 4 parcels in 3 places
- Namakkal 4 parcels in 2 places
- Chennai 3 parcels in 3 places
How to read a result
Indicator found
The register names the Board on this survey number. The land is Bhoodan land until the Board says otherwise in writing, and a private deed for it will be refused at registration.
Sibling sub-division
The Board holds another sub-division of the same survey. Donations were whole fields split later, so check the FMB sketch and ask the Tahsildar whether this plot was inside the gift.
No indicator
Nothing in the registers we hold names the Board on this parcel. That is not a clearance: granted Bhoodan land carries the grantee's name and shows only in the old EC or the grant order.
The law that bites
Tamil Nadu Bhoodan Yagna Act 1958, section 3 (vesting), and Registration Act section 22-A(1)(iii), which directs the Sub-Registrar to refuse a transfer of Board land.
Questions people ask
What is Bhoodan land?
Land given away in the Bhoodan (land gift) movement that Vinoba Bhave began in 1951. In Tamil Nadu the donations were taken over by the state under the Tamil Nadu Bhoodan Yagna Act 1958, and every donated parcel vests in the Tamil Nadu State Bhoodan Yagna Board. The Board grants the land to landless families to cultivate, with conditions that stop it being sold on.
Can Bhoodan land be bought or sold?
Not by a private holder. Land vested in the Bhoodan Yagna Board can only change hands with the Board and the competent authority, and section 22-A(1)(iii) of the Registration Act, as it applies in Tamil Nadu, directs the Sub-Registrar to refuse a sale, gift, mortgage, exchange or lease of it. A deed that somehow got registered does not cure the defect: the land still belongs to the Board.
How does this page find Bhoodan land when there is no Bhoodan register?
The Board is a landholder like any other, so on the land it has not yet distributed the revenue register names the Board as pattadar, in Tamil, in several spellings. We read the A-register for the villages and the town survey register for the towns, keep every parcel where the holder or the remarks name the Board, and search that list by survey number. Enter a survey and the answer says whether the register records the Board on it, or on a sibling sub-division.
The result says no indicator. Does that mean the land is not Bhoodan?
No, and the page will never say so. The register signal only catches land the Board still holds. Of about 28,000 acres donated in Tamil Nadu, more than 20,000 have already been granted to beneficiaries, and those parcels carry the beneficiary's name, not the Board's. For distributed land the evidence is the donation deed to the Board in the old encumbrance certificate, the grant order in the seller's hands, or the Village Administrative Officer's knowledge.
What does a match on a sibling sub-division mean?
The register records the Board on another sub-division of the same survey number, not on the one you typed. Donations were made by whole fields and split later, so a plot next to Board-held land is often part of the same gift. Check the sub-division boundary on the FMB sketch and ask the Tahsildar whether this plot was inside the donated extent.
How do I confirm a positive result?
Ask the Tamil Nadu State Bhoodan Yagna Board (under the Land Reforms department in Chennai) and the Tahsildar for the parcel's status, and read the encumbrance certificate back to the 1950s for the donation deed. Do not pay an advance until the Board's position is in writing.
Why are there so many spellings of the Board's name?
The registers are typed village by village, so the Board appears as பூமிதான வாரியம், பூமிதானவாரியம், பூமிதான போர்டு, Bhoomithan Board, Bhoodan Board and other forms, sometimes with the chairman's title or a Madurai or Chennai address. The matcher reads all of them, and takes care to leave out personal names that merely begin with the same letters.
Is this free?
Yes. There is no login and no charge. The register signal is also run inside every Verify My Land report, where it is read together with the encumbrance certificate and the documents you upload.
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