After the purchase / sections 135C and 135D
What it costs to put the land into your name
Registering the sale deed does not change the village land record. A separate step called mutation does that, and until it is certified the record still shows the seller. This page covers the five things that happen after a purchase and what each of them costs.
The honest answer on cost is that none of the five carries a published fee, which is one of the largest blanks in the whole procedure. The useful news is that a buyer with a properly registered deed does not have to start the mutation themselves, because the registering authority reports it. The deadlines and the thirty day objection window are set out below.
No published fee on any stepReport within three monthsObjection window thirty daysLast verified: 4 August 2026
01Registering the deed is not the last step
Moves the buyer's name into the Record of Rights. Until the mutation entry is certified it is not transferred to the record of rights, so the 7/12 still shows the seller.
This catches people out constantly. You pay the duty, you register the sale deed, you go home with a document. Then somebody pulls the village record for that survey number and it still shows the seller's name, because the record is changed by a separate process called mutation, or ferfar, and until that entry is certified the land record does not know you exist.
02The part that works automatically
There is a genuinely useful provision buried in section 135C. A person who acquires a right by virtue of a registered document does not have to report the acquisition themselves. The registering authority reports it.
So a buyer who has properly registered a sale deed is in a better position than somebody who acquired an interest by inheritance or by an unregistered arrangement, both of whom must report within three months on their own initiative.
The timeline. The person acquiring the right must report the acquisition to the designated officer WITHIN THREE MONTHS of the date of acquisition, and the designated officer must at once give a written acknowledgment. Where NO OBJECTION is raised by any interested person within THIRTY DAYS of the notice, the mutation entry shall be certified (electronically through an automated process, or manually).
03Five steps, no published fees
Five things happen to the land record after a purchase. Not one of them has a published fee.
| Step | Record | Published fee | Under which law |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get the mutation (ferfar) entered and certified in the Record of Rights | GJ-POST-01 | no official fee published | Sections 135C and 135D, Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879 |
| Apply for a varsai (inheritance) entry in the Record of Rights | GJ-POST-02 | no official fee published | Sections 135C and 135D, Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879 (succession and inheritance are named grounds of acquisition in s.135C) |
| Apply for measurement / demarcation of the survey number, hissa or part | GJ-POST-03 | no official fee published | Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879 (survey provisions, Chapters VIII and IX) |
| Obtain a copy of the Property Card (city survey / urban property) | GJ-POST-04 | no official fee published | Chapter X, Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879 (lands within the sites of villages, towns and cities) |
| Obtain a Revenue Title and Legal Possessor certificate | GJ-POST-05 | no official fee published | not stated |
No official fee is published for mutation, for an inheritance entry, for measurement and demarcation, for a property card copy, or for a revenue title and legal possessor certificate. Each was checked against the Revenue Department service table, which lists the services without amounts, and against the statute where one applies. Nothing has been estimated.
Measurement is worth singling out. It is the step that fixes where the boundaries of your parcel physically are, and it produces the measurement sheet that both an NA application and a building plan later require. It is a real cost in practice and it carries no published amount, which means a buyer cannot budget for it from any government source.
Record GJ-POST-01. Source: Gujarat Land Revenue Code 1879 as published by the Revenue Department (act_BLRC_1879_n.pdf), page 87 (s.135C) and page 88 (s.135D). s.135C: 'shall make a report of such acquisition of such right ... to the designated officer within the period of three months from the date of such acquisition'. s.135D(5): 'Where no objection is raised by any person having interest in the transaction ... within a period of thirty days, the mutation entry shall be certified'. s.135D(7): certified 'by a Revenue Officer not below the rank of a Deputy Mamlatdar'.. Statutory basis: Sections 135C and 135D, Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879. Data class OFFICIAL. Last verified: 4 August 2026.
The words on this page, in plain English
- Mutation, the ferfar entry
- The change that puts the new owner's name into the village land record after the sale is registered. Registering the deed does not do this on its own.
- Record of Rights, the village forms
- The village land register. Form 7/12 shows the survey number and who holds it, Form 8A shows an owner's whole holding, and Form 6 records every change made to them.
- Survey number
- The number the revenue record uses to identify one piece of land, the way a house has a street number.
- Sub-Registrar
- The local government office where the deed is presented, the duty is checked and the document is entered in the public record.
- Non-agricultural land, NA land
- Farmland that has been legally converted to building use by an order under section 65 of the Gujarat Land Revenue Code. Until that order exists the land is still farmland in law, whatever is standing on it.