J&K Land Records: How to Check Online (2026 Guide)

At a glance

J&K keeps land records village by village through the Patwari, under the Tehsildar. The online system holds scanned images of those registers.

The four J&K revenue records

The Revenue Department's description, carried on the Jammu district site, sets out the main records.

• Record of Rights (RoR): compiled during settlement operations. It lists landholders and tenants, the dues they owe, a genealogical tree and village maps. The department describes it as the record with the highest evidentiary value.
• Jamabandi (जमाबंदी): the updated extract of the RoR, showing landholders and tenants, their fields, rents and land revenue. It is prepared every four years, so changes between two Jamabandis show up through mutation entries.
• Girdawari (गिरदावरी): the harvest inspection the Patwari carries out twice a year, for the kharif and rabi crops. It records who is cultivating each khasra and what is grown.
• Mutation register, Intikal (इंतकाल): a numbered printed register kept for each village. Every change of holder after the last Jamabandi is entered through a mutation order. The department lists 25 categories of mutation.

The khasra (ख़सरा) number is the field number that ties all four together. If these terms are new, read our khasra and khatauni explainer first.

Step by step: search the online records

Screens change, so the steps below describe the flow rather than exact button names.

1. Open landrecords.jk.gov.in on a desktop browser. Keep the district, tehsil and village (mauza) names ready, along with the khasra number if the seller has given it.
2. Choose the public search for revenue records.
3. Select the district, then the tehsil, then the village. Use the revenue village name, which can differ from the local or advertised name.
4. Choose the record type you want: Jamabandi, Girdawari, mutation or Record of Rights, and the year or period if asked.
5. Open the scanned page and find the khasra number. Older records are often in Urdu.
6. Download or print the scan where allowed and note the date you viewed it.
7. Also try the ROR / Jamabandi status option on jkrevenue.nic.in.

How to read a Jamabandi and Girdawari

Column layouts vary between older and newer registers, so read every column rather than looking only for the seller's name. On each page, note:

• Holding numbers: the khewat and khatauni numbers that the khasra belongs to.
• Owners and shares: every co-owner listed usually has to join a sale, or the share being sold must be clear.
• Cultivator: whether the owner or someone else is recorded as cultivating. A tenant entry is a point to raise with an advocate.
• Area: recorded in kanal and marla. 8 kanal make one acre and 20 marla make one kanal. Our land measurement units guide has the wider table.
• Land class and remarks: whether the field is recorded as state or shamilat (common village) land, and any later mutation numbers or mortgage notes. Since the Jamabandi is rewritten only every four years, recent sales appear here.

The Girdawari for the same khasra shows who cultivated it in recent seasons. If it names a different cultivator from the seller for several seasons, ask why. Our land due diligence checklist covers the follow-up questions.

Musavi maps, Bhu Naksha and ULPIN

J&K's village maps are called Musavi (मुसावी). When the portal was launched in October 2021, it was reported that 55,216 Musavis had been scanned and 3,895 ground control points set up for a web-based GIS. By March 2026, reports said 6,518 of 6,857 villages had geo-referenced cadastral maps.

We could not confirm a public Bhu Naksha map viewer for Jammu & Kashmir of the kind Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha run. To see the field on a map, ask the Patwari to show it on the Musavi. Our guides on reading a cadastral map and matching a khasra to the plot on the ground apply to the Musavi too.

The Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN), also called Bhu-Aadhaar, is a 14-character ID for each land parcel under the national programme. Over 20.56 lakh ULPINs had been generated for 3,320 J&K villages by March 2026 (reported), so many villages are not yet covered. See our ULPIN explainer.

Fard, mutation and certified copies

The online scan is for checking. A sale deed, bank or court needs certified documents.

• Fard (फ़र्द): the ownership extract the Patwari prepares and the Tehsildar signs. An LBSNAA study of land records in Ladakh, which follows the J&K system, describes the Fard as a 20-column form listing ownership and encumbrances, which buyers and sellers submit before registration so the Sub-Registrar can check ownership. The J&K Revenue Department said in 2021 that Fard and mutation would move online; we could not confirm whether an online Fard is now available in every tehsil.
• Mutation (intikal): after registration, the buyer's name is entered through a mutation order by the revenue officer, based on a Patwari report. The Ladakh study gives a prescribed period of 30 days for a mutation order there. We could not confirm the current J&K time limit or any mutation fee; ask at the Tehsil.
• Demarcation: the same study cites demarcation application fees of Rs 100 up to 5 kanal and Rs 200 above 5 kanal under section 94 of the J&K Land Revenue Act. Confirm the current fee at your Tehsil before applying. Our demarcation guide explains the process.

The Revenue Department also launched online access to records held in the Central Record Rooms in Jammu and Srinagar in 2025 through jkrevenue.nic.in (reported). They help in tracing a 30-year chain of title.

A note on Ladakh

Ladakh has been a separate Union Territory since 2019 and keeps its own records. The LBSNAA report on Ladakh land records found 248 Records of Rights kept village by village, with computerisation complete for 36 villages, no public web portal and no digitally signed copies at the time of the study. Mutation was fully manual. Do not expect Leh or Kargil land to appear on the J&K LRIS; go to the Tehsil office.

What to check before you rely on it

• Who can buy: J&K's rules on who may buy agricultural land changed after 2019 and transfers to non-agriculturists are restricted. Read our non-farmer purchase guide and confirm your position with a local advocate before paying anything.
• State or shamilat land: such an entry in the class or owner column means the land is not the seller's to sell.
• Old Jamabandi: a four-yearly record can be out of date. Read the remarks column and the mutation register up to the current date.
• Cultivator mismatch: a tenant or another cultivator in the Girdawari needs a clear explanation.
• Area in kanal and marla: match the area on the Jamabandi, the Fard and the draft deed, and get the field demarcated on the Musavi.
• Online is not certified: base the deed on a signed Fard, not a screenshot.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

• Government of Jammu & Kashmir: Land Records Information System (LRIS)
• Revenue Department, Jammu & Kashmir: department portal
• District Administration Jammu: Department of Revenue, land records description
• B N Yugandhar Centre for Rural Studies, LBSNAA: Quality of Land Records, Ladakh Report