Patta & TSLR Verifier

What a patta is, and what it is not

A patta (பட்டா) is a revenue record. It records who the government holds responsible for the land revenue on a parcel, along with the survey numbers, the classification and the extent. It is strong supporting evidence and every buyer should see one, but it is not a title document and it does not by itself prove ownership. Title runs through the chain of registered deeds, which is what an encumbrance certificate and the parent documents show.

What a TSLR extract is

TSLR stands for Town Survey Land Register (நகர அளவை நில பதிவேடு). It is the register kept for land inside a town or city survey area. Instead of a village survey number, an urban parcel carries a town survey number that sits inside a ward and a block, and the same town survey number recurs in different blocks. That is why a TSLR extract always names the ward and the block, and why quoting a town survey number without them identifies nothing.

What a match does and does not prove

A match means the code resolves to a real entry in the register, and it shows you what that entry says. That is the strongest signal available without visiting the taluk office, because the code has to resolve through the portal's own decoding.

It is not, on its own, a guarantee about the paper. A certificate can carry a valid code and still have altered text, which is exactly why the fields are shown here in full. Read every line against the printed certificate. Any difference, however small, is worth resolving before you rely on the document.

When nothing comes back

An empty result is not a verdict of forgery, and this tool will never call a certificate fake. A code can fail to resolve for several ordinary reasons:

• The value was copied incompletely, or a character was lost in scanning.
• The link pasted was not the one the certificate's own QR code opens.
• The certificate is old enough that its code series is no longer served by the portal.

If the code is complete and still returns nothing, the right next step is to confirm the certificate with the taluk office that issued it.

Reading a patta result

A patta covers a holder, not a single plot, so the result lists every subdivision recorded under that patta number, each with its survey and subdivision number, its old survey number, its land type and its extent. Find the row that matches the document you were shown. A patta listing six subdivisions is not an offer of six parcels, and a seller who shows you the patta without pointing at the row has not shown you the land.

Reading the extent

The register records extent in three columns that add together: hectares, ares and square metres. One hectare is one hundred ares, and one are is one hundred square metres. All three are shown here exactly as recorded, and the total is given separately and labelled as calculated, so you can always see which figures came from the register and which we worked out. To move between local units, use the area unit converter.

Reading the classification

The register writes the classification and the tenure in Tamil, and this page pairs each one with its English reading. Nanjai (நன்செய்) is wet land and punjai (புன்செய்) is dry land. Poramboke (புறம்போக்கு) is unassessed government land, which cannot be bought or sold. Manai (மனை) is a house site. On the tenure column, sarkar (சர்க்கார்) is government tenure, and zamindari (ஜமீன்), mitta (மிட்டா) and inam (இனாம்) are the older grant tenures.

Reading the signature block

Extracts are digitally signed by a revenue officer. The block shows who signed it, their designation and office, the date of signing, and the validity date printed on the certificate. A lapsed validity date does not make the recorded details wrong, but most buyers, banks and registrars will ask for a freshly drawn extract before acting on it, because the register can change after a copy is printed.

Certificates with a reference number instead of a QR code

An online patta drawn from the state e-services portal prints a reference number rather than a scannable code. The urban form of it is readable: URB/02/01/004/001/0018/1017/114 is the district, taluk, town, ward, block, survey number and subdivision, in that order. Paste it and we decode it and read that parcel out of the register for you, so you can still compare the entry against the printed certificate field by field.

This is a weaker check than a QR code, and the result says so plainly. A QR code carries an encrypted payload that only the portal can decode, so decoding it proves the register produced the paper. A reference number is printed in plain text and anyone could type it, so all it can establish is which parcel it names and what the register holds for that parcel now. Where a certificate carries a QR code, use the code.

A rural reference number cannot be decoded at all. One reads like 2026/0105/30/031981, which carries a year, a serial number and a district code, and nothing that identifies a taluk, a village or a patta. It names the application, not the land. Rural certificates in that series usually carry no QR code either, so the practical route is to look the patta up by its patta number, or to take the certificate back to the taluk office that issued it.

Which certificates are covered

Three families are handled: rural patta and chitta certificates, urban town survey land register (TSLR) extracts, and urban online pattas. The first two carry QR codes belonging to two different series, which are decoded separately, and the third is read from its reference number. You do not have to know which kind you are holding. Paste what is printed and the right route is used, and the result tells you which check ran.

What to check next

A verified patta or TSLR extract answers one question: does the register hold what the paper says it holds. It does not tell you whether the land is mortgaged, litigated or reserved. Continue with the patta and chitta lookup for the current record by patta number, the field measurement book (FMB) sketch for the surveyed boundary, and owner by address when you are working from a location rather than a number.