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District guide
Buying Land in Rupnagar
Open to Indian buyers within the Punjab ceiling, with forest-listed foothill land, Sutlej flood history, a stalled-then-revived Ludhiana–Ropar expressway and no sourced per-acre price series.
2,056 sq km
Area (district portal)
6.85 lakh
Population (district portal)
26,338 hectares
PLPA land in Ropar, Oct 2022
~116 km
Ludhiana–Ropar expressway (reported)
*Indicative range across districts and land types. Stamp duty, registration and conversion charges are additional. Local measurement units vary — every listing states the unit it is priced in. Not a valuation or an offer.
PLRS — Punjab Land Records SocietyDistrict land record — Rupnagar
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Punjab
Naming
Rupnagar, also written Ropar; one district, two spellings (the district portal is rupnagar.nic.in, press reports say Ropar)
Sub-divisions
606 villages on the portal profile; Rupnagar, Nangal, Sri Chamkaur Sahib and Sri Anandpur Sahib appear in portal notices, and the full tehsil and block list is not on the profile page (Rupnagar district portal)
Key markets
Rupnagar (Ropar) town · Morinda · Chamkaur Sahib · Anandpur Sahib · Nangal · Nurpur Bedi
Agricultural land
Open to any Indian citizen up to the Punjab ceiling; closed to NRIs and OCIs under FEMA
Demand anchors
Sutlej plain and Shivalik foothills · Anandpur Sahib and Nangal · Ludhiana–Ropar expressway (planned)
Rail
Not checked for this page
Size and population
2,056 sq km · 6.85 lakh people (6,84,627 on the district portal profile)
Pricing unit
₹/acre (village farmland) · ₹/sq yd (town plots)
Local units
Acre (killa) · Kanal · Marla (8 kanal = 1 acre; 20 marla = 1 kanal)
Land records portal
Punjab Land Records Society; Easy Jamabandi online records and mutation, launched June 2025 (The Tribune, June 2025)
Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Punjab page and apply to every district within it.
Rupnagar — land purchase legal rules
The Act text we read limits how much land a family may hold, not who may buy. The main check is land classification: village common land (Shamlat Deh) vests in the Gram Panchayat, and a private seller cannot pass title to it.
Who can buy agricultural land? Section 4 of the Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 (Act No. 10 of 1973) caps what a person or family may hold. We found no clause in the text we read that limits the buyer by domicile or occupation; the copy is a 2005 printout, so a Punjab revenue lawyer should confirm there is no later restriction.
Ceiling limits: under Section 4(2) the permissible area is 7 hectares of two-crop irrigated land, 11 hectares of one-crop irrigated land and 20.5 hectares of barani land, with other classes capped at 21.8 hectares. A family of more than five gets one-fifth extra per additional member, for at most three members. Section 12 makes a transfer beyond the limit void (Act text, Punjab Land Records Society). A 2017 amending Bill took land bought for housing, industry, tourism and institutions outside the Act and asks the buyer to tell the Collector of the change of use within a year (Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Bill 33-PLA-2017).
Shamlat Deh — the parcel that cannot be sold: under the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961 this land vests in the Gram Panchayat, which may dispose of it only for the benefit of villagers and, under the rules, with prior government approval; the Collector decides disputes over its status. A private seller therefore cannot give a buyer title to it. Match every khasra number against the seller's current Jamabandi before paying any advance; the state reported in Tribune, June 2025 that its Easy Jamabandi portal issues free digitally signed copies with a QR code.
NRI Power of Attorney: a power-of-attorney sale does not transfer title; in Suraj Lamp & Industries v State of Haryana (Supreme Court, 2011) the Court held that only a registered deed of conveyance does, though an attorney may sign that registered deed for the owner. If the seller is abroad, read the PoA for an express power to sell and for its registration.
NRI & OCI buyers: the Reserve Bank's Master Direction under FEMA 1999 lets NRIs and OCIs buy immovable property other than agricultural land, plantation property or a farm house. That applies across India, Punjab included.
- Ceiling, not buyer class
- Ceiling: 7 / 11 / 20.5 ha
- Shamlat Deh: Panchayat land
- NRI PoA: registered deed
- NRI agri: barred (FEMA)
- Jamabandi check
Rupnagar — district-specific notes
The Punjab legal framework on our state page applies to Rupnagar in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page. Law and court orders are read from press reports and Act text opened in October 2026, not from gazette copies, so confirm with a local advocate.
⚠ Who can buy in Rupnagar: on the Act text we read, Punjab sets a limit on how much land a family may hold, not on who may buy. Section 4(2) of the Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 fixes the permissible area at 7 hectares of land with assured irrigation for two crops, 11 hectares with one crop, and 20.5 hectares of barani land, with an overall cap of 21.8 hectares for mixed land and an extra allowance for families above five members; section 12 makes a transfer beyond the ceiling null and void (Act text, Punjab Land Records Society). We found no clause limiting who may buy. The Punjab Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2017, as tabled, keeps land acquired for housing, industry, tourism and institutions outside the Act and asks the buyer to notify the Collector of the change of use within one year (Punjab Vidhan Sabha, November 2017); we did not confirm the final Act text. We read the Act as printed and not every later amendment, so confirm any exemption with a Punjab revenue lawyer. A January 2023 request by a Congress leader for a private member's bill to bar non-Punjabis from buying agricultural land was a request to the Speaker, not law (The Tribune, January 2023).
⚠ Forest-recorded land is a larger issue here than in the plains. The forest department's drone survey of land under the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900 (PLPA) listed 26,338 hectares in Ropar, second to Hoshiarpur's 41,067, out of about 1.32 lakh hectares across six districts (The Tribune, October 2022). We have not read the Act, but land under it can carry a construction bar that the seller's papers never mention. Ask for the khasra's PLPA position in writing from the Divisional Forest Officer.
⚠ Shivalik farmhouse policy: Punjab's Cabinet approved a policy on 16 November 2025 for low-impact units of at least one acre (4,000 sq yd), ground plus one floor, in areas excluded from the PLPA in the kandi belt from Mohali to Pathankot, with a Forest Department NOC (The Tribune, November 2025). The Forest Department had objected in September 2025, citing forest cover and wildlife in the fragile foothills (The Tribune, September 2025). The reports do not name districts and the detailed rules were unpublished, so do not buy foothill acreage on the promise of a permitted farmhouse.
⚠ Colonies and change of land use: building on agricultural land needs a change of land use (CLU) from the competent planning authority, and layouts without approval fall under the 1995 plot and apartment regulation Act (PAPRA). On the NOC rule, a 2024 amendment to the 1995 plot and apartment regulation Act (PAPRA) allowed plots up to 500 sq yd to be registered without the no-objection certificate (NOC) where an agreement or power of attorney dated on or before 31 July 2024 existed (Bill 7 of 2024, PRS; The Tribune, October 2024), with a window reported to run to 31 August 2025 (The Tribune, March 2025). The High Court directed compliance with the NOC requirement in March 2025 (PTC News, March 2025) and the government stopped such registrations in May 2025 (The Tribune, May 2025). We have not read the court order or the final Act. Do not buy a plot in a layout without authority approval, and ask for the NOC in writing. We did not read a Rupnagar master plan or colony list, so ask the competent authority for the zone of the survey number and the colony's licence.
⚠ Chandigarh periphery: the Punjab New Capital (Periphery) Control Act, 1952 is one of the two laws that govern development near Chandigarh, alongside the 1995 town-planning Act, according to the 2017 Bill text (Punjab Vidhan Sabha, November 2017). We found no village list or belt width for Rupnagar, so treat parcels on the Morinda and Kharar sides as needing a village-wise check with the Deputy Commissioner.
⚠ Land pooling: Punjab notified a Land Pooling Policy on 4 June 2025 and amended it on 25 July 2025 (GMADA policy page). The Tribune reports that it was withdrawn by August 2025 after protests and a High Court stay, replaced by an optional policy in November 2025 and an enhanced package in April 2026 (The Tribune, June 2026); the High Court disposed of the pleas as infructuous in September 2025 (The Tribune, September 2025). The explainer's affected areas are Greater Mohali, New Chandigarh and the Aerotropolis, and we found no village list for Rupnagar district. Do not assume that a village outside an approved GMADA or PUDA plan will be pooled, or that it will not.
⚠ NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land, plantation land or a farmhouse under the RBI Master Direction on immovable property (Reserve Bank of India), so this page is not a route for them; they may inherit it. See the NRI land guide.
Read the Punjab land buying guide for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and the rules around Chandigarh.
- No non-agriculturist bar
- Ceiling 7 / 11 / 20.5 ha
- PLPA land
- Shivalik farmhouse policy
- PAPRA colony rules
- Periphery Act 1952
- NRI and OCI barred
District overview
Rupnagar — a Sutlej and Shivalik district, listed under two names
Rupnagar, long known as Ropar, is a Punjab district of 2,056 sq km and 6,84,627 people, with 606 villages, on the district portal's profile (Rupnagar district portal). The Sutlej runs through it: in July 2023 its tributaries inundated low-lying villages around Ropar and Anandpur Sahib (The Tribune, July 2023). Nangal and Anandpur Sahib are on the portal's notices, and the northern and eastern edge belongs to the Shivalik foothills. One naming note: press reports and brokers use both Ropar and Rupnagar for the same district, so material under either name belongs here.
As elsewhere in Punjab, we found no bar on a non-farmer buying agricultural land, and the Land Reforms Act ceiling is the only quantity limit we read. The real filters here are land use and forest status. The forest department's survey found 26,338 hectares under the Punjab Land Preservation Act in Ropar, so a cheap hill parcel may be land on which nothing can be built.
We publish no per-acre price for Rupnagar, because listing-site asks could not be traced to registered deals. One dated benchmark exists: The Tribune listed Ropar among 12 districts where collector rates rose by 5% to 50% by August 2025, without a district figure (The Tribune, August 2025). Check the village rate with the Sub-Registrar.
The public projects to watch are the Ludhiana–Ropar expressway, which the Tribune says would end at a junction with NH-205 near Bheora village in Ropar, and the four-laning of NH-344A from Phagwara to Rupnagar (The Tribune, December 2024; The Tribune, February 2023). See the Mohali page for the Chandigarh side and the Nawanshahr page for the road's other end.
- Rupnagar (Ropar)
- Morinda
- Chamkaur Sahib
- Anandpur Sahib
- Nangal
- Sutlej
- Shivalik foothills
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Rupnagar
5%
Stamp duty (2017-18 audit rate)
current rate to confirm with the Sub-Registrar
6% / 4%
Men / women, as reported
press reports, 2018 and 2020
1%
Registration fee
capped at ₹2 lakh (2017-18 audit)
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on Punjab's revenue sector records stamp duty on a sale deed at 5% of the higher of the deed value and the collector rate, a 1% social infrastructure cess and a 1% registration fee capped at ₹2 lakh, as in force in 2017-18 (CAG report, 2019). The Tribune says an earlier 3% cess was waived in July 2017 (The Tribune, February 2020), and press reports of 2018 and 2020 put the rate at 6% for men and 4% for women (The Statesman, June 2018). We opened no official current rate schedule and found no report of a change in 2025 or 2026, so treat these as the last published figures and confirm the current rate with the Sub-Registrar before budgeting.
Collector rates matter as much as the duty rate, and duty follows the higher of the deal value and the collector rate. The Tribune listed Ropar among 12 districts with rises of 5% to 50% by August 2025 and reported that a further statewide rise was put on hold (The Tribune, August 2025); it gave no Rupnagar figure and we found no village-wise list, so ask the Sub-Registrar of the tehsil. CLU and legal fees are extra. A woman buying in her own name gets a 2% rebate on stamp duty, or 1% on a joint registration, and a 2018 amendment reclaims it if the land passes to a male relative within a year (The Statesman, June 2018). The state also waived 2.25% in extra duty and fees for March 2023 only (The Tribune, March 2023), which shows that these charges move by notification.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Rupnagar
Rupnagar is several markets: a town edge, village acreage on the Sutlej plain, and Shivalik foothills. There is no sourced price series, so the cards give dated facts and checks.
Prices: no sourced series
No per-acre band published
Listing-site asks for Ropar, Chamkaur Sahib and Morinda could not be traced to registered deals, and several printed per-unit figures did not match their totals, so we publish none. Use registered deeds and the village collector rate instead.
Check: registered sale deeds for the village, distance to the road and the Sutlej flood line.
Expressway land take
260 hectares for Package 1 (reported)
The Tribune reported in December 2024 that the 37.7 km Package 1 of the Ludhiana–Ropar expressway needed 260 hectares, that all of it had been taken over, and that farmers had stalled work on 9 October 2024 over compensation (The Tribune, December 2024). The report gives no per-acre compensation.
Check: whether the survey number is in a notified land-take list, which affects both land and compensation.
Plots and layouts
No plot price published
Plots in colonies without approval cannot be built on or financed easily, and The Tribune reported in May 2025 that the government stalled registration of plots without an NOC. A plot price says nothing about the layout's status.
Check: the approved layout, the CLU order and whether the plot is agricultural or residential in the records.
Hill and forest-edge land
26,338 hectares under the PLPA in Ropar (October 2022)
The Tribune's October 2022 survey figure for Ropar is second only to Hoshiarpur among six districts. Land under the Act can carry a construction and transfer restriction, so large low-priced blocks need a forest-status check before any price talk.
Check: the PLPA position in writing from the Divisional Forest Officer, and whether the seller can transfer the block.
Collector rates: Ropar in the 5% to 50% group
No district figure; August 2025 list
The Tribune listed Ropar among 12 districts where rates rose by 5% to 50% (13 August 2025). It gave no figure for Rupnagar, and we found no village-level agricultural rate for any tehsil. Collector rates are the floor for duty, not an indicator of market price.
Check: the current list for the village at the Sub-Registrar office.
Units: killa, kanal, marla
Village land is quoted per acre (called a killa locally) and small plots per kanal, marla or square yard. We use 8 kanal to an acre and 20 marla to a kanal, as in our Punjab state guide, and opened no official conversion table. Recompute any quote from total price and area before comparing two offers.
Connectivity
How Rupnagar connects — road, rail and air
Chandigarh is the main anchor. No road distance on this page is route-checked; only agency and press figures are shown.
By road
By air
By rail
Read the Mohali page for the Kharar spur of the Ludhiana–Ropar expressway. Land on an alignment can be taken for the road, so ask NHAI whether a survey number is in a notified land-take list before paying an advance.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Announced timelines are not guaranteed, and items marked confirm rest on a single or old report.
00Confirmed operational
03Planned or status unconfirmed
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Rupnagar
A Sutlej plain with Shivalik foothills. Forest status and floods matter as much as soil, and we found no sourced crop table for the district.
🌾 Sutlej plain: Rupnagar, Morinda and Chamkaur Sahib
We did not find a district crop-area table, so crop mix is not stated; the jamabandi shows the actual crop history. Groundwater is the state-wide pressure point: CGWB's 2024 assessment puts Punjab's extraction at 156.87% of the recharge available, with 115 of 153 assessment units over-exploited (CGWB, December 2024), and the PIB reports 156.36% for the 2025 assessment (PIB, December 2025). We found no block-level category for Rupnagar's blocks, so look it up on CGWB.
- Groundwater
- Jamabandi
⛰️ Shivalik foothills: Anandpur Sahib and Nangal
The forest department's survey found 26,338 hectares under the Punjab Land Preservation Act in Ropar (The Tribune, October 2022). The Tribune describes the kandi belt as the lower Shivalik hills from Mohali to Pathankot and quotes the Forest Department calling the foothills ecologically fragile (The Tribune, November 2025; The Tribune, September 2025). Cheap hill acreage needs a forest-status check before anything else.
- Kandi belt
- PLPA
🌊 Sutlej floods
On 9 July 2023 low-lying villages along the Sutlej at Ropar and Anandpur Sahib were inundated, with the river reported at about 1,00,000 cusecs against a normal 12,000 (The Tribune, July 2023). On 15 July the paper listed Rupnagar among 15 flood-hit districts, with crops submerged and homes entered (The Tribune, July 2023). For the 2025 floods we have only state figures: the Ministry of Home Affairs told the Rajya Sabha that 40 people died and 14,065 houses were damaged, as reported by Punjab to 27 November 2025, without naming districts (MHA reply, December 2025). Check flood history and distance from the river and any headworks.
- Sutlej
- Flood history
- Headworks
📐 Measurement units
Revenue records use acres, kanal and marla; plots are quoted in square yards. We use 8 kanal to an acre and 20 marla to a kanal, as in our Punjab state guide, and opened no official conversion table. Convert each quote to acres before comparing two offers, and value a parcel on location and permitted use rather than crop income.
At a glance
Rupnagar vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Collector-rate movement* | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Rupnagar (listed as Ropar) | In the 5–50% group of 12 districts (August 2025); no district figure | The Tribune, August 2025 |
| Nawanshahr | 10–30% (August 2025) | The Tribune, August 2025; see the Nawanshahr page |
| Mohali | Not compared here | See the Mohali page |
| Fatehgarh Sahib | Not compared here | See the Fatehgarh Sahib page |
| PLPA land in Ropar | 26,338 hectares (October 2022 survey) | The Tribune, October 2022 |
Collector rates are the floor for stamp duty, not market prices, and the figures are not like-for-like. We publish no per-acre price series for any of these districts. See the Mohali page for the Chandigarh side and the Punjab state page for state-wide rules.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Rupnagar
Five reasoned points and one caution: the district rewards patient buyers who can read forest records.
Road plans that tie it to the Chandigarh side
The Ludhiana–Ropar expressway has a 19.5 km spur to Kharar in Mohali district (The Tribune, December 2024). We route-checked no distance and have no sourced price comparison with Mohali, so test any value argument against registered deeds.
Road projects that point at the district
The Ludhiana–Ropar expressway would end near Bheora village and a four-lane NH-344A from Phagwara was announced in 2023, but the expressway was stalled in 2024 and revived in December 2024, and we found no later status for either. They are reasons to watch, not proof of value.
The Sutlej and foothills
The Sutlej and the foothills give the district a weekend appeal. That demand is local, and flood and forest checks matter more than the view.
A thinly evidenced market
There is no sourced price series, so a buyer has to build one from registered deeds nearby. That takes time, and exits can be slow.
Eligibility is simple
We found no non-agriculturist bar in the Act text, so an Indian citizen can buy within the ceiling. NRIs cannot, so the buyer pool is domestic.
Caution: cheap often means restricted
The PLPA area in Ropar is 26,338 hectares. Ask for the forest department's position on any hill parcel before discussing price.
Confirm land class, CLU, PLPA and flood status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Rupnagar
Read these before shortlisting in Rupnagar specifically.
Forest-recorded land
26,338 hectares in Ropar were listed under the Punjab Land Preservation Act in the October 2022 survey. Land under it can carry a construction and transfer restriction.
Foothill farmhouse policy
The one-acre Shivalik farmhouse policy of November 2025 covers only land excluded from the PLPA and needs a Forest NOC, and the Forest Department objected in September 2025. Do not pay for a promise of a permitted farmhouse.
Unauthorised colonies and CLU
Plots in colonies without approval cannot be built on or financed easily, and agricultural land needs a granted CLU before building.
Sutlej flooding
The Sutlej inundated villages at Ropar and Anandpur Sahib on 9 July 2023, and Rupnagar was among 15 flood-hit districts by 15 July. Check flood history and river distance.
Planned roads and land take
The expressway and highway widening acquire land, and farmers stalled Package 1 over compensation in October 2024. Ask NHAI whether the survey number is notified.
No sourced price series
Listing-site asks could not be traced to registered deeds and several printed inconsistent per-unit figures. Collect registered comparables.
Two names, one district
Press reports and brokers use both Ropar and Rupnagar for this district, so a search under one name misses some. Search under both.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & forest offices
Mutation and revenue-record matters go through the Tehsildar of the tehsil (Rupnagar, Nangal, Sri Chamkaur Sahib or Sri Anandpur Sahib on the Rupnagar district portal). Sale deeds are registered by the Sub-Registrar, and Easy Jamabandi, launched in June 2025, offers online records and mutation requests (The Tribune, June 2025). Change of land use and colony approvals sit with the competent planning authority; ask in writing which body issues the order for the survey number.
Forest status and PLPA position are confirmed by the Divisional Forest Officer for Rupnagar, and permission to build near Chandigarh comes under the 1952 Periphery Act and the 1995 town-planning Act (ask the Deputy Commissioner which applies). National highway land-take notices are published on the NHAI and district portals, and a notice such as the 2021 Anandpur Sahib Section 3D notification identifies the affected survey numbers.
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- Marla, Kanal and Killa in Punjab — What They MeanWiki · P01 Land Measurement Units
- Farmhouse Rules in Punjab (2026): Mohali and PAPRAWiki · P17 Farmhouse & Lifestyle Land
- Stamp Duty Calculator Punjab: Land Cost Method (2026)Wiki · P11 Taxation, Stamp Duty & Registration
- Bhu Naksha Punjab: Village Land Map Guide (2026)Wiki · P02 Land Records & Documentation
- Stamp Duty Punjab: Land Registry Charges (2026)Wiki · P11 Taxation, Stamp Duty & Registration
- Punjab CLU: Change of Land Use Explained (2026)Wiki · P06 Land Use, CLU & NA Conversion
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Rupnagar.
Visit full wiki01 of 04
Can an outsider buy agricultural land in Rupnagar?
Yes, on the texts we read. The Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 caps what a family may hold (7 hectares of two-crop irrigated land, 11 hectares of one-crop irrigated land, 20.5 hectares of barani land), but we found no residence or non-agriculturist bar. NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land under the RBI's FEMA Master Direction. We read no amendments, so confirm any exemption with a Punjab revenue lawyer.
02 of 04
What does agricultural land cost in Rupnagar?
We publish no per-acre band, because listing-site asking prices could not be traced to registered deals. The one dated benchmark is a press report: The Tribune listed Ropar among 12 districts where collector rates rose by 5% to 50% by August 2025, without a district figure. Check the village rate with the Sub-Registrar.
03 of 04
What stamp duty applies to land in Rupnagar?
The last published figures we found are 5% stamp duty, a 1% social infrastructure cess and a 1% registration fee capped at ₹2 lakh (CAG report, 2017-18 data), and press reports of 6% for men and 4% for women. We opened no current official schedule, so confirm the rate with the Sub-Registrar. Duty follows the higher of the deal value and the collector rate.
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Why does forest status matter in Rupnagar?
The Tribune reported in October 2022 that the forest department's survey found 26,338 hectares under the Punjab Land Preservation Act in Ropar, second only to Hoshiarpur. Land under the Act can carry a construction and transfer restriction, so ask the Divisional Forest Officer for the khasra's status in writing before paying for foothill land.
Transparency
Sources and references
Law and courts
- Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 (ss. 4, 12), Punjab Land Records Society, text opened October 2026
- Punjab Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2017, Punjab Vidhan Sabha, 29 Nov 2017
- Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2024 (Bill 7), PRS Legislative Research, 31 Aug 2024
Government
- Master Direction FED 12/2015-16 on immovable property under FEMA, Reserve Bank of India, updated 1 Sep 2022
- Rupnagar district profile, Rupnagar district portal, opened October 2026
- Section 3D notification of 9 Jul 2021, NH-21 at Sri Anandpur Sahib, Rupnagar district portal
- Stamp duty chapter, Report No. 3 of 2019 (Revenue Sector, Punjab), Comptroller and Auditor General, 2019
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Punjab, 2024, Central Ground Water Board, December 2024
- Groundwater resource assessment 2025, PIB, 18 Dec 2025
- Land pooling policy page, GMADA, opened October 2026
- Rajya Sabha reply on Punjab floods, Ministry of Home Affairs, 3 Dec 2025
News
- Drone survey of Punjab Land Preservation Act area begins, The Tribune, 27 Oct 2022
- Punjab Cabinet clears policy to regularise farmhouses, The Tribune, 16 Nov 2025
- Proposed kandi farmhouse policy hits forest cover hurdle, The Tribune, 25 Sep 2025
- Shelved Ludhiana-Ropar highway revived, entire land made available, The Tribune, 12 Dec 2024
- 4-lane Phagwara-Rupnagar NH section will boost road infra, The Tribune, 22 Feb 2023
- Ghaggar, Satluj in spate, The Tribune, 9 Jul 2023
- Patiala, Moga, Ludhiana among 15 worst flood-hit districts, The Tribune, 15 Jul 2023
- Proposals to raise collector rates put on back burner, The Tribune, 13 Aug 2025
- Congress leader seeks bill to restrict purchase of agricultural land by non-Punjabis, The Tribune, 24 Jan 2023
- Government to impose 1% cess on registration, The Tribune, 8 Feb 2020
- Punjab amends rule to bar misuse of stamp duty rebate for women, The Statesman, 18 Jun 2018
- Punjab announces 2.25% exemption in stamp duty, The Tribune, 2 Mar 2023
- Now, NOC not needed to register land deeds, The Tribune, 25 Oct 2024
- Plots can be registered without NOC till 31 August, The Tribune, 1 Mar 2025
- High Court halts plot registrations without mandatory NOC, PTC News, 20 Mar 2025
- Government stalls registration of plots without NOC, The Tribune, 13 May 2025
- High Court disposes of pleas against the land pooling policy as infructuous, The Tribune, 11 Sep 2025
- Why Punjab keeps rewriting its land pooling policy, The Tribune, June 2026
- Government rolls out Easy Jamabandi portal, The Tribune, 13 Jun 2025
- Chandigarh airport named after Bhagat Singh, The Tribune, 28 Sep 2022
Further reading
- Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961, India Code
- Suraj Lamp and Industries v State of Haryana, Supreme Court, 11 Oct 2011: a power-of-attorney sale does not transfer title
- Land use statistics for five years, Punjab Department of Agriculture
Data-currency note: the district profile is the portal's own and gives no census year; the stamp-duty figures are the last published ones we found, and no official current schedule or village collector-rate list opened for us. Road statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly. This is a general guide, not legal advice. Report inaccuracies to wiki@farmlandindia.com.
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