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Land is a State subject. Every statute, provision, charge basis, restriction and portal named here is set by a State
and is amended regularly, sometimes annually. This page is an orientation written from published sources on
the date shown — it is not legal advice, it is not a statement of the current operative law, and it has not been
reviewed by an advocate practising in this State. Secondary sources on state land law go stale badly and frequently
repeat positions that were repealed years ago. Confirm every point with that State's own revenue or planning
authority on official
gov.in / nic.in sources and with a local advocate before you act or
advise. AgriZameen is an independent private platform and is not a government body.- Tenure & records law
- Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 — holdings are tenancies of the State, with खातेदार (khatedar) the principal class. Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956 governs revenue administration and conversion.
- Ceiling
- Rajasthan Imposition of Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1973 — limits vary by land class and irrigation.
- Conversion route
- Section 90-A of the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956 is the operative provision. Separate rules apply to urban and rural areas; the 2007 rural rules were amended by notification dated 29 April 2026. Section 90-B is referred to in older files and litigation and belongs to an earlier statutory position.
- Conversion charge basis
- Commonly described as a rate per square metre, varying by area slab, location and population band. Confirm current rates with the authority.
- Who may buy agricultural land
- Generally described as open — no agriculturist status requirement reported for purchase. Section 42 of the Tenancy Act restricts sale, gift and bequest by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe khatedars without permission.
- Official portals
- Apna Khata (land records) · Bhu-Naksha Rajasthan (cadastral maps) · e-Panjiyan (registration) · SSO / SWCS single-window for 90-A conversion applications
- Revenue & planning hierarchy
- Revenue: Patwari → Girdawar/Kanungo → Tehsildar → SDO → Collector → Board of Revenue, Ajmer. Planning: JDA for the Jaipur region, UITs elsewhere, municipal bodies and gram panchayats.
- Subdivision of a holding
- Section 53 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 governs division of a holding. Rule 24E of the Rajasthan Tenancy (Government) Rules, 1955 sets the minimum area for Section 53(1) at five acres, with a proviso of 2.5 acres where the tenant has Class I irrigated land — defined in the rule’s own Explanation as land under assured irrigation capable of growing at least two crops in a year. A separate district-and-tehsil table in the same rules gives effect to Section 84 and is not the subdivision minimum. Full explainer.
- Fragmentation on transfer
- A second and separate regime. Under the Rajasthan Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1954 a “fragment” is a plot of less extent than the standard area determined under Section 5 as the minimum necessary for profitable cultivation in a particular notified area. Section 8 prohibits transferring or partitioning land in a notified area so as to create a fragment; Section 9 penalises it. Because the standard area is set per notified area, there is no single statewide figure — and a sale is a transfer, so this is the provision that bites on selling.
- Rural conversion rules
- Rajasthan Land Revenue (Conversion of Agricultural Land for Non-Agricultural Purposes in Rural Areas) Rules, 2007, notified 2 April 2007 under clause (xi-A) of sub-section (2) of Section 261 read with Section 90-A of the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956. They replaced rules of the same name made in 1992, which is why older files and older summaries cite a different year. Only land held in the khatedari tenancy of the applicant may be converted under them.
- Purposes recognised in rural areas
- Rule 3 lists residential unit; residential colony or project; commercial purpose; industrial purpose, industrial area or industrial estate; and further categories including agro-processing and agri-marketing units. The purpose you apply for is the purpose you are permitted — using converted land for a different one is a fresh application, not a detail.
- Where no application is needed
- A proviso to Rule 4 deems land converted, with no application, where a tenant establishes a micro or small scale industrial unit or a kjawa (small brick kiln), or uses land for an institutional, medical-facilities or public-utility purpose, on his own khatedari land up to one acre — or for a food processing unit up to ten hectares. Worth knowing before anyone sells you a conversion service for a case that does not need one.
- Land that cannot be converted
- Rules 4 and 7 set out categories of land restricted from conversion. This page does not list them, because the list is the kind of thing that changes by notification and a stale list is worse than none. Read the current consolidated rules and confirm the category of the specific khasra with the revenue office.
- Deadline after a conversion order
- Under Rule 14, agricultural land converted for a non-agricultural purpose — other than a tourism unit — must be used for that purpose within five years of the conversion order, or such longer period as the State Government may prescribe having regard to the nature of the project and the investment required. Failing that, the conversion order is withdrawn. A conversion certificate on a parcel that has sat unused is a date to check, not a comfort.
- Rural layout reservations
- For a residential colony or project in a rural area, 40% of the total land is reserved for public facilities including roads and the remaining 60% is used for the project. For an industrial area or estate, 70% is for setting up industries — of which up to 3% of total land may be used commercially — and the remaining 30% is reserved as 5% open area, 15% public facilities including roads, and 10% essential welfare and supporting activities.
- Who approves, and the rural layout committee
- The prescribed authority is tiered by area, with the State Government converting where the area exceeds 1,00,000 square metres. Layout plans, building plans and completion certificates for rural residential colonies, projects, industrial areas and industrial estates are approved by a committee chaired by the District Collector, with the Additional District Collector (Administration) as Member Secretary and the concerned Sub-Divisional Officer, the Executive Engineer posted in the Zila Parishad and the Zonal Senior Town Planner or Deputy as members.
- Land straddling urban and rural
- Where a residential colony or project sits partly under the jurisdiction of an urban body or its peripheral belt and partly in a rural area, conversion is done by the competent officers authorised under Section 90-A, and conversion charges at the residential colony or project rate are payable on the total area — not only on the rural part.
What differs most from Rajasthan. Levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Academy cover this State in full detail. This page is a summary index; the lessons are the substance.
Case law with a connection to this State
Gulab Kothari v. State of Rajasthan — master plan land use, ecological zones, charagah, encroachment
Before you act on any of this
Run the six checks from Level 3, Lesson 8: which statute governs, whether your buyer is eligible to purchase at all, the conversion charge basis and what else is levied, the realistic timeline from someone who has done it recently, the land's classification in that State's records, and a local advocate. Confidence transfers across a state line; competence does not.