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State guide
Buying Land in Bihar
No farmer-only rule, but a family ceiling, SDO conversion, a resurvey running to 2027, a 2026 MVR reset and floods across 73% of the state.
38
Districts
94,163 sq km
Area
73.06%
Flood-affected area (WRD)
45.54%
Groundwater extraction (2024)
State land record — Bihar
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
Regions (informal)
North Bihar (Mithila, Tirhut, Kosi and Seemanchal, north of the Ganga) and South Bihar (Magadh, Bhojpur and the Patna belt, south of the Ganga)
Total districts
38 (Deccan Herald)
State area
94,163 sq km, of which about 68,800 sq km (73.06%) is flood affected (FMIS, Water Resources Department)
Groundwater extraction
45.54% of recharge, 2024; 473 of 535 units safe (CGWB, January 2025)
Land records
Jamabandi (register II), Khatiyan, mutation and maps through the Revenue and Land Reforms Department’s Bihar Bhumi portal; corrections through Parimarjan; deed services on Nibandhan
Governing acts
Bihar Tenancy Act 1885 · Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling Area and Acquisition of Surplus Land) Act 1961 · Bihar Agricultural Land (Conversion for Non-Agricultural Purposes) Act 2010 · Bihar Special Survey and Settlement Act 2011
Stamp duty (conveyance)
6% stamp duty and 2% registration fee, as stated in the CAG audit for 2017-18; reported rates vary by buyer and area
MVR (government rate)
Minimum Value Register revised in 2026, first since 2013 (rural) and 2016 (urban), as reported (Prabhat Khabar, June 2026)
Bihar — land purchase legal rules
Bihar does not reserve agricultural land for farmers the way Gujarat or Maharashtra do, so an Indian resident who is not a cultivator can usually buy farmland here. The limits that bite are different: a family land ceiling, a conversion permission before any non-farm use, an unfinished statewide resurvey that is rewriting old records, and the usual NRI bar under FEMA. Most buyer problems in Bihar come from the records, not from the law.
Who can buy agricultural land? We found no provision in Bihar’s tenancy or ceiling laws that limits farmland purchases to agriculturists. What the Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling Area and Acquisition of Surplus Land) Act, 1961 controls is how much a family may hold, and section 16 bars any acquisition by transfer, exchange, lease, mortgage or settlement that would take the buyer’s family above its ceiling. Inheritance, bequest and gift are outside that bar.
Ceiling limits: Section 4 of the 1961 Act sets the ceiling for a family of up to five by land class: 15 acres for land irrigated by government works and double-cropped, 18 acres for land on private tubewells or lift irrigation, 25 acres for one-season irrigated land, 30 acres for other land including orchards, 37.5 acres for diara or chaur land and 45 acres for hilly, sandy or perennially submerged land. Each extra family member adds one-tenth of the ceiling, up to one and a half times the limit. A “family” is a person, spouse and minor children, and companies, trusts and institutions count as persons.
Conversion to non-farm use: The Bihar Agriculture Land (Conversion for Non-Agriculture Purposes) Act, 2010 requires prior permission from the Sub-Divisional Officer before agricultural land is used for anything else. The fee is 10% of market value as set by the Collector under the Stamp Act, the SDO must decide within 90 days, and converting without permission draws a penalty of half the fee on top of the fee. The Act does not apply inside municipal areas or areas notified as urban, commercial or industrial through a master plan, where building and layout rules take over instead.
Mutation and the Jamabandi: A registered deed is not the end of the job. The buyer has to apply for mutation, called Dakhil Kharij, so that the Jamabandi (register II) moves to the buyer’s name and rent receipts are issued to the buyer. Both steps run online through Bihar Bhumi, and errors in the digitised Jamabandi are corrected through the Parimarjan portal. Sellers whose Jamabandi carries a wrong name, area or plot number should fix it before registry, not after.
The special land survey: Bihar is resurveying land under the Bihar Special Survey and Settlement Act, 2011, which will produce a new Khatiyan (record of rights) and maps for each village. The deadline was moved to December 2026 in March 2025 (PTI via ThePrint), and the revenue minister was reported in March 2026 to have set December 2027 for completion (Prabhat Khabar, March 2026). Buyers in a village under survey should check whether the seller filed the self-declaration and whether any claim or objection is pending on the plot.
Government, Bhoodan and estate land: A large share of disputes involves land that was never the seller’s to sell: government land recorded as gair mazarua, Bhoodan land, or land of former estates. The revenue department reported that 2,56,664.88 acres of the 6,48,593.14 acres donated under Bhoodan had been distributed, and that about 15,358 acres of the former Bettiah Raj estate were set to be taken over (Deccan Herald). Check the khata category in the Khatiyan before paying any token money.
Scheduled Areas and tribal land: Bihar is not among the ten states with notified Fifth Schedule Areas (PIB). The Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas tenancy restrictions on tribal land went with those regions to Jharkhand in 2000, so buyers moving between the two states should not assume the same rules apply.
Planned township zones: Bihar has finalised areas for 11 greenfield satellite townships and in April 2026 the Urban Development Department barred sale, purchase and construction in seven of them, including the Pataliputra Township around Patna (Prabhat Khabar, April 2026). The ban on sales was lifted in August 2026, though a landowner inside the Pataliputra township area must first inform the government before selling, and a cabinet decision reported on 29 October 2026 removed the restriction in the satellite townships, with construction to follow the development control rules (Prabhat Khabar, 9 August 2026; Prabhat Khabar, 29 October 2026). Zoning under these plans now decides what a plot can be used for.
Documents to ask for: Before paying an advance, collect the current Jamabandi page and the latest rent receipt (lagan rasid), the Khatiyan (record of rights) from the last settled survey and, where it exists, the new survey entry, the Bhu Naksha map sheet with the plot number marked, the seller’s chain of registered deeds (kewala) for at least the last 30 years, the mutation order that put the land in the seller’s name, and a land possession certificate (LPC) from the circle office. Match the khata, khesra (plot) number, area and boundaries across every document. Our Bhu Naksha guide and mutation status guide show how to pull these online.
NRI and OCI buyers: Under the RBI’s Master Direction on acquisition of immovable property, NRIs and OCIs may buy immovable property in India other than agricultural land, plantation property or a farm house. They can inherit such land. Our NRI guide covers the options in detail.
- No farmer-only rule found
- Ceiling Act 1961
- Conversion Act 2010 (SDO)
- Dakhil Kharij mutation
- Special survey to 2027 (reported)
- NRI agri: barred (RBI)
- Records via Bihar Bhumi
State overview
Bihar — from the Kosi floodplain to the Patna belt
Bihar is a flat, crowded, river-made state of 38 districts and 94,163 sq km in the middle Ganga plain (FMIS, Water Resources Department). The Ganga cuts it in two. North of the river, the Gandak, Burhi Gandak, Bagmati, Kamla Balan, Kosi and Mahananda come down from Nepal with heavy silt, and the state counts about 73% of its area as flood affected. South of the river the land is older alluvium running up to the Chotanagpur edge, with the Sone, Punpun and Phalgu as the main rivers. The 2011 Census counted 10.41 crore people, one of the highest densities in India, which is why farm holdings are small and most land is sold in fractions of an acre.
Water is plentiful but unevenly controlled. The Central Ground Water Board put Bihar’s groundwater extraction at 45.54% of annual recharge in 2024, with 473 of 535 assessment units safe and only four over-exploited, mostly in the central belt south of the Ganga (CGWB, January 2025). The constraint here is too much water in the monsoon rather than too little in summer. Air links have grown fast: Patna opened a new terminal in May 2025, Darbhanga has flown under UDAN since 2020, Purnea got an interim terminal in September 2025 and a civil enclave is being built at Bihta (PIB, September 2025). Road money is going into the Patna–Purnia expressway, the Gorakhpur–Siliguri and Raxaul–Haldia expressways, and a ring road around Patna, each covered below with its status.
For land buyers, Bihar is a records state. Asking prices are usually quoted in kattha or decimal, the government rate (MVR) was revised in 2026 for the first time in about a decade, and a statewide resurvey is still rewriting the Khatiyan in many villages. A clean Jamabandi, a completed Dakhil Kharij in the seller’s name and a flood check matter more here than any headline about a new road. Most buyers we see fall into three groups: families from Bihar working elsewhere in India or abroad who want a plot near their home district, Patna professionals looking for a farmhouse or orchard within driving distance of the city, and long-term holders betting on the new expressways and the Bihta airport. Each needs the same paperwork, but the risks differ: the first group often buys from relatives with unpartitioned land, the second meets township zoning and conversion rules, and the third faces alignment changes and acquisition.
- Eastern India
- Patna
- Middle Ganga plain
- North Bihar floodplain
- Bihar Bhumi
- Special survey
Market bands
Reported valuation reference points — Bihar
There is no sourced price series for Bihar farmland, so no price bands are shown. The table lists the official cost references we could source; the MVR is the government’s minimum value, not a market price.
| Item | Scope | Reported figure* | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stamp duty | Conveyance deed, statewide | 6% of market value | CAG audit, 2017-18 |
| Registration fee | Conveyance deed, statewide | 2% of market value | CAG audit, 2017-18 |
| Additional stamp duty | Land inside municipal areas | 2% of valuation | CAG audit, 2017-18 |
| Conversion fee | Agricultural to non-farm use, outside municipal and master-plan urban areas | 10% of market value | Conversion Act 2010, s.4 |
| Minimum Value Register | Statewide government rate | Revised in 2026; last revised 2013 (rural) and 2016 (urban) | Prabhat Khabar, June 2026 |
*Reported figures, not market prices. Duty is charged on the higher of the deed value and the MVR value for the plot’s category, so the MVR revision raised costs even where sale prices did not move. Check the current MVR for the exact mauza and land class on the Nibandhan e-services site before fixing a deal value. We will add sourced price bands for districts as they become available on the district pages.
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Bihar
6%
Stamp duty on a conveyance deed
as stated in the 2017-18 audit report
2%
Registration fee on a conveyance deed
as stated in the same audit
2026
Year the MVR was revised
revised 19 June 2026, the first revision in about a decade, as reported
The Comptroller and Auditor General’s revenue audit of Bihar for the year ended 31 March 2018 describes stamp duty at six per cent and registration fee at two per cent on an instrument treated as a conveyance, with an additional two per cent stamp duty on the valuation of land in municipal areas, and says both are levied on market value worked out from the Minimum Value Register under notifications of February and July 2013 (CAG report No. 2 of 2019). The same audit found a Patna valuation committee had cut the MVR for one urban area without following the prescribed method, which shows how much the register matters to what a buyer pays. In June 2026 the state raised the register itself. Prabhat Khabar reported that from 19 June 2026 the MVR was doubled in urban and peripheral areas and raised by 60% in rural areas, the first revision in about a decade, with a further 5% rise each financial year and a full review every three years (Prabhat Khabar, 18 June 2026). The same report put the general stamp duty at 7%, up from 6%, with a 0.5 percentage point concession for women buyers, which differs from the audit figures above, so ask the sub-registrar office for the current duty before you budget. Periphery was defined as up to 8 km around a municipal corporation and 4 km around a municipal council. Compensation for land acquired for roads and railways is also now set on the MVR in force on the notification date (Prabhat Khabar, 23 August 2026). Duty and fee are charged on the MVR value, so the same deed now carries a much larger bill in and around towns. Registration and fee payment run through the Nibandhan portal, and our Bihar stamp duty guide and MVR guide explain how to look up the rate for a plot. Budget separately for mutation, the survey copy fees and an advocate’s title search, which are small next to the duty but are where most delays happen. If the land is agricultural and you intend to build, add the 10% conversion fee under the 2010 Act to the cost before you agree a price.
Connectivity
How Bihar connects — road, rail, air and the river crossings
Expressways, airports and the Ganga bridges that link north and south Bihar.
🚗 By road
✈️ By air
🚆 By rail
🌉 The river crossings
North and south Bihar trade across the Ganga, so bridges shape land markets as much as highways do. The 19.76 km Kacchi Dargah–Bidupur six-lane project, with a 9.76 km cable-stayed bridge linking the Patna side to Vaishali, was reported built in July 2026, at a cost of Rs 4,988 crore (Prabhat Khabar, July 2026). Air figures for Patna, Gaya, Darbhanga, Purnea and Bihta are from a September 2025 government note (PIB). Land within reach of a new bridge or interchange has usually repriced before the road opens, so date your comparisons. For farmland the nearest all-weather road and the distance to a block market or mandi usually matter more than the distance to an airport, and in north Bihar the height of the access road above flood level is worth checking in person.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status as of November 2026, maintained by the Farmland India research desk. Government-announced timelines are not guaranteed.
03Expressways
At land acquisition stage
07Catalysts
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water across Bihar
Crop belts, floods and groundwater. Water figures are from the Central Ground Water Board assessment for 2024 and the state flood management cell.
North Bihar: paddy, maize and litchi
The plain between the Gandak and the Kosi gets close to 1,200 mm of rain a year. Muzaffarpur’s contingency plan lists rice on 119.3 thousand ha, wheat on 96.1 thousand ha and maize on 28 thousand ha, plus 7.5 thousand ha of litchi (ICAR-CRIDA, Muzaffarpur). Madhubani, further east, is rice and wheat with 8.5 thousand ha of mango and nearly 5,900 farm ponds (ICAR-CRIDA, Madhubani).
- Kharif paddy, then wheat or maize in rabi
- Litchi and mango orchards around Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga
- Ponds for fish and makhana in low land
South Bihar: rice, wheat and pulses
South of the Ganga the soils are older alluvium and canal and tubewell irrigation are better developed. Patna district’s plan puts 78% of net sown area under irrigation, with rice on 135 thousand ha, wheat on 95.1 thousand ha and lentil on 46.1 thousand ha (ICAR-CRIDA, Patna).
- Rice–wheat on irrigated land
- Lentil, gram and potato in rabi
- Vegetables on the edge of Patna and Gaya
Diara and Tal land
Diara is the sandy, shifting land in and beside the river beds; Tal is a chain of saucer-shaped depressions south of the Ganga in Patna, Nalanda, Lakhisarai, Munger and Bhagalpur. Tal land stays under water from August to early October and is mostly single-cropped (ICAR-CRIDA, Patna).
- Rabi pulses after the water drains
- Ceiling Act treats diara and chaur as a separate land class
Groundwater
The 2024 assessment put Bihar’s extraction at 45.54% of annual recharge. Of 535 assessment units, 473 were safe, 49 semi-critical, 9 critical and 4 over-exploited, the stressed units being mostly in the central belt south of the Ganga (CGWB, January 2025). Ask for the block’s category, not the state average.
Floods
About 68,800 sq km, or 73.06% of the state, is counted as flood affected, and 76% of north Bihar’s people live with recurring flood risk. The northern rivers carry heavy silt from catchments that lie about 65% in Nepal and Tibet (FMIS, Water Resources Department).
Rainfall
District plans give normal annual rainfall of 1,054 mm for Patna, 1,185 mm for Madhubani and 1,198.6 mm for Muzaffarpur, most of it between June and September (ICAR-CRIDA). Rain is not the constraint; drainage and flood timing are. A late-receding flood can delay rabi sowing by weeks, which is why plot height matters as much as soil.
At a glance
Bihar’s regions side by side
| Region | Price series | Water and irrigation | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patna and Magadh (south-central) | None sourced* | Tubewells and canals; Tal land floods Aug–Oct | Capital region, metro, Bihta airport, township zoning |
| Bhojpur and Rohtas (south-west) | None sourced* | Sone canal system | Rice–wheat belt on the Varanasi side |
| Tirhut and Saran (north-west) | None sourced* | Gandak and Burhi Gandak; flood risk | Litchi belt, new expressway alignments |
| Mithila, Kosi and Seemanchal (north-east) | None sourced* | Kosi, Kamla and Mahananda; highest flood exposure | Purnea airport, Patna–Purnia and Gorakhpur–Siliguri routes |
*No sourced price series exists for these regions, so none is shown; the MVR for each mauza is the official reference. Flood and water notes draw on the state flood management cell and CGWB 2024; road notes on Patrika. Neighbouring states follow different land laws: compare the Uttar Pradesh page before treating a border plot as alike.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Bihar
Five points this desk weighs for Bihar, each tied to a source on this page.
Roads are reaching new districts
Three expressways at the acquisition stage, Patna–Purnia, Gorakhpur–Siliguri and Raxaul–Haldia, run through districts that have never had access-controlled roads. Land near a confirmed interchange is the realistic play; land “near the alignment” before notification is a guess. Notified alignments and land acquisition awards are public; use them.
Patna is getting a second airport
The Bihta civil enclave, approved at Rs 1,413 crore, sits at Bihta, west of the city. With the metro, the ring road and the Ganga bridges, it is pulling demand west and south of Patna rather than only into the city.
The MVR reset changes the arithmetic
Revised government rates in 2026 raised the floor on which duty is paid. Where deeds were registered close to the old MVR, buyers now pay more tax on the same land, which slows flipping and favours longer holds.
Records will get cleaner, slowly
The special survey will give each village a fresh Khatiyan and map. Until it closes, land with a finished survey entry and a matching Jamabandi is worth more than land without, and the gap is a pricing signal in itself. Buyers with patience can sometimes buy the second kind cheaply and fix it, but only if the dispute is clerical and not about ownership.
Flood risk is priced unevenly
Three-quarters of the state is flood affected, yet many sellers quote north Bihar plots as if they were on high ground. A flood history check can be the cheapest due diligence a buyer does.
Confirm Jamabandi, mutation, ceiling and conversion status directly — these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Bihar
Read these before shortlisting. The risks below are general to Bihar; the district pages add local ones.
Floods and river erosion
The state counts 73.06% of its area as flood affected, and the northern rivers shift course and bury fields in sand (FMIS). Ask villagers how high the 2008 and later floods reached, look for silt lines on walls, and treat diara land as seasonal. Embankments reduce but do not remove the risk; land just inside an embankment can waterlog when sluices close, and land outside it floods every year.
Records that do not match
The Jamabandi, the old Khatiyan and the survey entries can each show a different owner or area. Read all three, and fix errors through Parimarjan before registry rather than after. A buyer who registers on a faulty Jamabandi inherits the correction case, and mutation is usually refused until it is settled.
Unpartitioned family land
Much Bihar land is held jointly by heirs who never partitioned it. A sale by one branch can be challenged by the others. Ask for a registered partition deed or a family settlement signed by every branch, and check the survey self-declaration for co-sharers.
Government and Bhoodan land
Gair mazarua (government) land and Bhoodan land are regularly sold by people with no title to it. The revenue department’s own figures show lakhs of acres of Bhoodan land still in process (Deccan Herald).
Ceiling and surplus land
A plot declared surplus under the 1961 Act, or acquired above a family’s ceiling, can be taken back by the Collector (Ceiling Act, s.16–17). Large consolidated buys need a ceiling check on the buyer’s family too.
Unconverted use
Building on farmland outside municipal or master-plan areas without SDO permission draws the 10% conversion fee plus a 50% penalty on it (Conversion Act 2010, s.6). Farmhouse plots are a common case. Colonies laid out on agricultural land without conversion or an approved layout can leave buyers with plots they cannot legally build on or get a power connection for.
Acquisition and township zoning
Expressway corridors and the satellite township zones have been under acquisition notices or sale bans in the last two years (Prabhat Khabar, August 2025; Prabhat Khabar, April 2026). Check the latest notification for the village, not last year’s.
Under-stated deeds
Registering below the MVR invites a deficit-duty demand, and a 2026 rule change was reported to allow penalties of up to 100% where value is concealed (Prabhat Khabar). Pay duty on the full value. A cash component also leaves the buyer with no proof of the real price if the deal is later challenged.
Who to contact
Local revenue & registration offices
Land administration in Bihar runs through the Revenue and Land Reforms Department (Bihar Bhumi for Jamabandi, mutation, maps and rent receipts; Parimarjan for record corrections). At the local level the Circle Office (Anchal) under the Circle Officer handles mutation and land possession certificates, the Sub-Divisional Officer decides conversion applications under the 2010 Act, and the Collector hears appeals and ceiling matters. Deeds are registered at the district and sub-registrar offices of the Registration Department, whose online services are on Nibandhan. Each district’s collectorate has its own NIC website, for example patna.nic.in. In practice, the circle office is where most problems are solved or created: the halka karmachari and the revenue officer there prepare the mutation report, and an objection filed at that stage can hold a sale for months. Visit with the seller, ask for the register entry to be shown on screen, and keep copies of every acknowledgement. For survey questions, the camp office of the special survey for the circle is the place to check claims and objections.
KEEP EXPLORING
Districts & guides in Bihar
Districts
- Araria
- Arwal
- Aurangabad
- Banka
- Begusarai
- Bhagalpur
- Bhojpur
- Buxar
- Darbhanga
- East Champaran
- Gaya Ji (gaya)
- Gopalganj
- Jamui
- Jehanabad
- Kaimur (bhabua)
- Katihar
- Khagaria
- Kishanganj
- Lakhisarai
- Madhepura
- Madhubani
- Munger
- Muzaffarpur
- Nalanda
- Nawada
- Patna
- Purnia
- Rohtas
- Saharsa
- Samastipur
- Saran
- Sheikhpura
- Sheohar
- Sitamarhi
- Siwan
- Supaul
- Vaishali
- West Champaran
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Bihar.
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Can a non-farmer buy agricultural land in Bihar?
We found no provision in Bihar’s tenancy or ceiling laws that limits farmland purchases to agriculturists, unlike Gujarat. The limits are the family ceiling under the 1961 Ceiling Act and the need for SDO permission under the 2010 Conversion Act before any non-farm use.
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How much agricultural land can one family own in Bihar?
Section 4 of the 1961 Ceiling Act sets 15 to 45 acres for a family of up to five, depending on land class: 15 acres for double-cropped land irrigated by government works, 18 for tubewell land, up to 45 for hilly or sandy land. Each extra member adds one-tenth, up to one and a half times the ceiling.
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What are stamp duty and registration charges on land in Bihar?
Prabhat Khabar reported that from 19 June 2026 the general stamp duty is 7% (up from 6%), with a 0.5 percentage point concession for women buyers, charged on a Minimum Value Register that was doubled in urban and peripheral areas and raised 60% in rural areas. The older CAG audit figures were 6% stamp duty and 2% registration fee, so confirm the current total with the sub-registrar before you budget.
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Can NRIs buy farmland in Bihar?
No. The RBI’s Master Direction lets NRIs and OCIs buy immovable property in India other than agricultural land, plantation property or a farm house. They can inherit such land.
Transparency
Sources and references
Law and courts
- Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling Area and Acquisition of Surplus Land) Act, 1961
- Bihar Agriculture Land (Conversion for Non-Agriculture Purposes) Act, 2010
- RBI Master Direction: Acquisition or Transfer of Immovable Property under FEMA
- CAG, Report No. 2 of 2019, Revenue Sector, Bihar: Stamps and Registration Fees
Government
- Bihar Bhumi, Revenue and Land Reforms Department
- Parimarjan, Jamabandi correction portal
- National Portal: Parimarjan service
- Nibandhan e-services, Registration Department
- Flood Management Information System, Water Resources Department
- CGWB: Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Bihar, 2024
- ICAR-CRIDA district agriculture contingency plan: Patna
- ICAR-CRIDA district agriculture contingency plan: Muzaffarpur
- ICAR-CRIDA district agriculture contingency plan: Madhubani
- PIB: Bihar airports note, September 2025
- PIB: Tribes Advisory Councils in the ten Scheduled Area states
- Patna district administration
News
- ThePrint (PTI): land survey deadline extended to December 2026, March 2025
- Deccan Herald: land survey deadline extended; Bhoodan and Bettiah Raj figures
- Prabhat Khabar: December 2027 survey deadline, March 2026
- Prabhat Khabar: MVR doubled in urban areas and raised 60% in rural areas, stamp duty 7%, June 2026
- Prabhat Khabar: MVR to set compensation for acquired land, August 2026
- Prabhat Khabar: registry rules and penalty for concealed value, 2026
- Patrika: Patna–Purnia Expressway, August 2025
- Prabhat Khabar: Raxaul-Haldia expressway alignment cleared, August 2025
- Prabhat Khabar: Gorakhpur-Siliguri Expressway approval and land acquisition, October 2026
- Prabhat Khabar: Bihta airport progress, May 2026
- ThePrint (PTI): Patna Metro first section, October 2025
- Prabhat Khabar: Kacchi Dargah-Bidupur bridge, July 2026
- The Week (PTI): IMC Gaya agreements, November 2024
- Prabhat Khabar: township land ban, April 2026
- Prabhat Khabar: township ban lifted, August 2026
- Prabhat Khabar: satellite township sale ban lifted by cabinet, October 2026
Further reading
- Bihar Bhumi Jamabandi online (Farmland India wiki)
- Bhu Naksha Bihar (Farmland India wiki)
- Dakhil Kharij mutation status (Farmland India wiki)
- Stamp duty in Bihar (Farmland India wiki)
- MVR rate in Bihar (Farmland India wiki)
- Can NRIs buy agricultural land in India? (Farmland India wiki)
Data-currency note: sources were read in November 2026. Infrastructure timelines, the MVR and survey deadlines change often; check the linked source and the relevant office before relying on any figure.
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