Is this survey Bhoodan land? Check before you buy
Drop a pin on the land. The survey under it is found and checked against the revenue registers for the Tamil Nadu State Bhoodan Yagna Board named as holder. You see whether the Board is recorded on your parcel, or on another sub-division of the same survey, and what an empty answer does not prove.
Sign in with your phone to run it. You see the price and approve it before anything runs.
- The survey located from the pin and checked against the Board-held parcels the registers record
- A hit on a sibling sub-division of the same survey reported separately from a hit on the parcel itself
- What an empty answer does and does not prove, said plainly
1 creditper run, charged when the register answers
What we need
One thing at a time. Fill it in and press Run.
The answer
From the register, with its date and source.
Nothing run yet. The answer appears here with everything this mini adds:
- The survey located from the pin and checked against the Board-held parcels the registers record
- A hit on a sibling sub-division of the same survey reported separately from a hit on the parcel itself
- What an empty answer does and does not prove, said plainly
Bhoodan land, briefly
Bhoodan land is land donated in the land gift movement Vinoba Bhave began in 1951, which in Tamil Nadu vests in the Tamil Nadu State Bhoodan Yagna Board under the Tamil Nadu Bhoodan Yagna Act, 1958.
- The law
- 1958 Act
The Tamil Nadu Bhoodan Yagna Act, 1958 vests donated land in the Board, which grants it to landless families with conditions that stop it being sold on.
- At registration
- Section 22-A
Section 22-A(1)(iii) of the Registration Act, as it applies in Tamil Nadu, directs the Sub-Registrar to refuse a deed for it.
- What is read
- The revenue registers
No Bhoodan register is published. The revenue registers name the Board as holder on land it has not yet granted out.
How to check if land is Bhoodan land in Tamil Nadu
- 1
Place the pin on the land
Tap the plot on the map, paste a Google Maps link, or use your location while you stand on it.
- 2
Press Run
The survey under the pin is found, then checked for the Board named as holder in the village A-register or the town survey land register.
- 3
Read your parcel, then its siblings
A hit on your sub-division and a hit on another sub-division of the same survey are reported separately.
When it helps with land
Farm land in a village
Bhoodan land was granted to be cultivated, so village farm land with an old chain of deeds deserves this check.
A seller who cannot show the old EC
When the encumbrance certificate does not go back far, the register signal is a quick first look.
A split survey
Donations were made by whole fields and split later, so a Board-held neighbour is worth a look at the boundary.
No indicator is not a clearance. Land the Board has already granted carries the grantee's name and does not show here. Read the encumbrance certificate back to the 1950s for a donation deed to the Board, and ask the Board and the Tahsildar before paying anything.
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 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 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.
How is Bhoodan land found 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 holder, in Tamil, in several spellings. The village A-register and the town survey land register are read for every form of the Board's name, and the survey under your pin is looked up in that list.
No indicator means it is not Bhoodan land?
No. The register signal only catches land the Board still holds. Land already granted to beneficiaries carries the beneficiary's name, not the Board's. For that 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 yours. 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 boundary on the FMB sketch and ask the Tahsildar whether your plot was inside the donated extent.
How do I confirm a positive result?
Ask the Tamil Nadu State Bhoodan Yagna Board 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 were typed village by village, so the Board appears as பூமிதான வாரியம், பூமிதான போர்டு, Bhoomithan Board, Bhoodan Board and other forms. The check reads all of them and leaves out personal names that merely begin with the same letters.
When is it charged?
When the registers answer for the survey. If the parcel under the pin cannot be resolved, nothing is charged. The price is shown beside the Run button.