Land acquisition check by survey number
சர்வே எண் மூலம் நிலம் கையகப்படுத்துதல் அறிவிக்கை சரிபார்ப்பு
The approval registers tell you what may be built on a parcel. None of them tell you whether the state has already given notice that it intends to take it. That notice exists, as a ruled schedule of village and survey number in the Government Gazette, and nothing indexes it. Enter a survey number and we search those schedules.
Can you check land acquisition status from a survey number?
Yes. Acquisition in Tamil Nadu is notified in the Government Gazette, and the notice lists the affected land by village and survey number. This page reads those schedules and searches them the way a buyer needs to: from the land to the notice. It currently covers 231,708 notified survey numbers drawn from 2136 gazette issues across 38 districts, 2008-2026, under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act 2001, the Acquisition of Land for Industrial Purposes Act 1997 and RFCTLARR 2013, with national highway notices under the National Highways Act 1956 from 2010.
A notice is not a completed acquisition, and an empty result is not proof that none exists. Schedules are amended by errata and are sometimes withdrawn. National highway notices are read from the Gazette of India, and that reading is partial too. Updated 14 September 2026.
Search the acquisition schedules
One survey number or several, separated by commas. Sub-divisions are welcome: if the notice was written before your plot was split off, we still find it through the parent survey number and say so. Narrowing by village is strongly recommended, because the same survey number exists in every village in the state.
Free, no login. We show the gazette issue and date for every result so you can read the original notice at source before acting on it.
See it on the map
Notified land is drawn from the cadastre, so you see the actual parcels named in the schedule, not a pin nearby. Click any shape to read its notice, or click anywhere on the map to find what is notified near that point.
How to read a result
Notification or errata
A notification gives notice of the intention to acquire. An errata amends a schedule published earlier, so extents and survey numbers may have changed. Errata are marked.
Exact and parent matches
An exact match names your sub-division. A parent match names the survey number your plot was split from, which is expected: the acquisition itself creates the new sub-divisions. A notice naming a different sub-division of the same survey is shown too, marked as not your plot.
The Act decides the process
Highways, industrial purposes and RFCTLARR each carry different compensation and objection routes. The Act is shown on every result so you know which applies.
Always verify at source
Every result carries its gazette issue and date. The register is the government's, not ours, and the notice itself is the document that governs.
Questions people ask
Can I check if my land is under acquisition using the survey number?
Yes. Enter the survey number and the village, and this page searches the schedules published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette (Extraordinary). Acquisition notices list the affected land by village and survey number, so the survey number is the right key. A result names the project, the Act it was issued under and the gazette issue, so you can read the original notice yourself.
Does a notice mean my land will definitely be taken?
No. A notice records that the government has given notice of its intention to acquire. The schedule can be amended by a later errata, the extent can change between the draft notification and the final award, and a notification can be withdrawn or set aside by a court. Treat a result as a reason to check with the Special District Revenue Officer (Land Acquisition), not as a settled outcome.
What does it mean when it says the parent survey number matched?
It means the schedule names the survey number your plot was split from, rather than your exact sub-division. This is normal and expected: an acquisition creates new sub-divisions, so the sub-division you hold today may post-date the notice. Read the schedule in the gazette to see whether your extent falls inside the land described. A notice that names a different sub-division of the same survey number (88/1A1A when you asked about 88/2A1) is shown as well, marked as another sub-division: it does not name your plot, though the land it takes may adjoin yours.
Which Acts are covered?
The Tamil Nadu Highways Act 2001 (section 15), the Tamil Nadu Acquisition of Land for Industrial Purposes Act 1997 (section 3), and the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013 as applied in Tamil Nadu. Older notices under the Land Acquisition Act 1894 also appear. National highway acquisitions under sections 3A and 3D of the National Highways Act 1956 are read from the Gazette of India from 2010.
Are national highway acquisitions included?
Yes, from 2010. Acquisition for a national highway is notified under sections 3A and 3D of the National Highways Act 1956 in the Gazette of India. This page reads those notices for Tamil Nadu (824 so far) and searches them with the state gazette. A section 3A notice declares the intention to acquire; a section 3D declaration vests the land in the Central Government. Both readings are partial, so an empty result is still not proof.
Is an empty result proof that my land is safe?
No, and the page will never say so. An empty result means nothing in the gazette issues we have read names that survey number. Our reading of the gazette is partial, the state publishes on the order of a hundred to two hundred and fifty acquisition notices a year, and central notices are not covered at all.
Why can the village name in the notice differ from the one I know?
Romanised Tamil place names vary, and revenue villages carry a serial prefix in the notice (for example "No.11, Melpakkam"). Districts have also been reorganised: a notice issued before 2019 may name Tirunelveli for a village now filed under Tenkasi. The search folds these variations, and a result shows both the name as notified and the name in the revenue register.
Is this free?
Yes. There is no login and no charge. It reads a published government record and shows you the citation so you can verify it at source.
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