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 5,135 such parcels across 1,359 villages and 27 towns in 35 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 7 Sep 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 867 parcels in 113 places
- Kancheepuram 722 parcels in 130 places
- Erode 533 parcels in 55 places
- Chengalpattu 403 parcels in 77 places
- Sivagangai 330 parcels in 58 places
- Tiruppur 326 parcels in 42 places
- Thoothukkudi 298 parcels in 66 places
- Thanjavur 222 parcels in 80 places
- Thiruvarur 215 parcels in 42 places
- Salem 176 parcels in 36 places
- Dindigul 136 parcels in 31 places
- Dharmapuri 110 parcels in 47 places
- Cuddalore 92 parcels in 26 places
- Krishnagiri 89 parcels in 39 places
- Tiruchirappalli 88 parcels in 38 places
- Perambalur 88 parcels in 35 places
- Tirunelveli 86 parcels in 15 places
- Coimbatore 76 parcels in 19 places
- Viluppuram 56 parcels in 32 places
- Pudukkottai 50 parcels in 17 places
- Tiruvallur 30 parcels in 17 places
- Theni 28 parcels in 16 places
- Tenkasi 26 parcels in 6 places
- Virudhunagar 19 parcels in 14 places
- Nagapattinam 16 parcels in 7 places
- Kallakurichi 12 parcels in 10 places
- Ramanathapuram 11 parcels in 4 places
- Kanniyakumari 10 parcels in 6 places
- The Nilgiris 5 parcels in 2 places
- Tiruvannamalai 3 parcels in 2 places
- Ariyalur 3 parcels in 2 places
- Chennai 3 parcels in 3 places
- Mayiladuthurai 3 parcels in 1 place
- Ranipet 2 parcels in 2 places
- Karur 1 parcels in 1 place
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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