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District guide
Buying Land in Banaskantha
A border district of ten talukas after the 2025 split: potato and castor farmland, defence and sanctuary checks, Narmada pond water and rail and air projects still pending.
10
Talukas (Sep 2025 notification)
18.70 lakh t
Potato output 2024-25 (reported)
116.65 km, under construction
Taranga Hill–Ambaji–Abu Road line
578 mm
Normal rainfall (ICAR-CRIDA)
*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.
District land record — Banaskantha
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Gujarat
Sub-divisions
10 talukas: Palanpur (headquarters), Vadgam, Danta, Hadad, Amirgadh, Deesa, Kankrej, Ogad, Dhanera and Dantiwada (DeshGujarat, September 2025; the district portal taluka page lists the same ten). Vav-Tharad, announced on 1 January 2025, took eight talukas out of the old district from 2 October 2025
Key markets
Palanpur · Deesa · Dhanera · Danta (Ambaji) · Amirgadh
Demand anchors
Potato and castor farming · Deesa Air Force Station (civil terminal proposed) · Taranga Hill–Ambaji–Abu Road rail line under construction · Narmada pipelines to farm ponds
Rail
Palanpur Junction is on the Gujarat list of stations identified under the Amrit Bharat scheme (PIB, March 2026); the new Taranga Hill–Ambaji–Abu Road line is under construction (Construction World, March 2026)
Size and population
No area or population figure found for the reconstituted district. The undivided district was 10,751 sq km on the district website; a January 2025 plan put the remainder at 4,486 sq km (DeshGujarat, January 2025), but that plan moved Dhanera and Kankrej out and the final notification did not, so we do not use it
Pricing unit
No sourced series; convert any quote to acres or sq m before comparing
Local units
Guntha = 1,089 sq ft (about 101 sq m) · 40 gunthas = 1 acre · vigha varies by region and no official conversion was found
Land records portal
AnyROR (not opened for this page; Gujarat government sites refused our automated fetch)
Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Gujarat page and apply to every district within it.
Banaskantha — land purchase legal rules
Agricultural land in Gujarat can generally be bought only by an agriculturist, and farmer status is checked before a sale entry is certified. The other main checks are tenure (old or new), NA permission, the fragmentation limit and whether the area is notified under the Disturbed Areas Act.
Who can buy agricultural land? Section 63 of the Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 is headed “Transfers to non-agriculturist barred”, and section 2(2) defines an agriculturist as a person who cultivates land personally. A commentary on the Supreme Court appeal Vinodchandra Sakarlal Kapadia v State of Gujarat (Civil Appeal 2573 of 2020) reports that the Gujarat High Court read section 63 to bar a transfer by an agriculturist to a non-agriculturist without the Collector’s permission, including by will (Mondaq, April 2021). Farmer status is checked from revenue records back to a cut-off of 6 April 1995, under Revenue Department circulars of 13 September 2024, and a self-declaration form goes with a sale entry or an NA application (SCC Online, September 2024). We read section 63 through these summaries, not its full text; confirm with a Gujarat revenue lawyer.
Will non-farmers be allowed to buy? A committee chaired by C. L. Meena studied the tenancy laws and its suggestions on non-farmer purchase were being assessed in November 2024, with no decision announced (Gujarat Samachar, November 2024; Gujarat Samachar, November 2024). We found no enacted change by October 2026, so the section 63 rule above is the one to plan on.
Ceiling limits: the Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act, 1960 (Gujarat Act 27 of 1961, amendments compiled by PRS Legislative Research) bars a person from holding land above the ceiling area. Land of a spouse and minor children is grouped with the holder, a family of more than five may hold one-fifth of the ceiling area for each extra member up to twice the ceiling, and each major son counts as a separate person; in desert, hill and drought-prone areas the dry-crop ceiling is raised by 12.5% but cannot pass 21.85 hectares (54 acres). These points come from a legal-database copy of the Act that we do not link, because the India Code page did not open here; the class-wise acreage in Schedule I was not in the text we read, so we show no per-class figure.
Tenure, premium and NA permission: section 43 of the Tenancy Act is headed “Restriction on transfers of land purchased or sold under this Act”, which is the basis of what the press calls new tenure land, and the Collector’s office grants permission and collects a premium under it (Surat Collectorate). A government notification of 8 February 2024 lets a tenant who has farmed land for more than 15 years move it from new tenure to old tenure without a conversion fee, but the premium for NA use is still payable (LiveLaw, April 2025). NA (non-agricultural) permission is granted under section 65 of the Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879, and is deemed granted if the Collector does not decide within three months (same source); applications have been online since a December 2018 circular (SCC Online, September 2024). Press reports put the NA premium at about 35 to 40 per cent of land value (Gujarat Samachar, March 2024); we found no official schedule. The 2008 resolution on NA procedure also lists distance limits from railways, airports and Air Force installations (900 m) and from the sea high-tide line (500 m) (Revenue Department resolution, July 2008), which later circulars may have changed.
Fragmentation (tukda) limit: the Assembly passed the Gujarat Prevention of Fragmentation and Consolidation of Holdings (Amendment) Bill on 11 September 2026. As reported, it sets a uniform standard area of 10 gunthas (1,012 sq m) for rural land under a new section 5(4), leaves out municipal and urban development authority areas, and regularises violations from 1948 to 31 March 2026 without penalty; before this, buyers paid 10% of jantri value (DeshGujarat, September 2026). We did not see the Act text or any filing deadline.
Industrial and institutional exceptions: sections 63AA and 63AAA allow land bought for industrial, education or health use to be resold on payment of a share of jantri value that falls with the holding period, from 100% at three to five years to 25% beyond ten years (Gujarat Bill 23 of 2020, PRS Legislative Research). We have the Bill, not the enacted Act. A charity that bought in breach before 30 June 2015 may apply for conversion within a period the State notifies (Gujarat Bill 1 of 2024, PRS Legislative Research).
Disturbed Areas Act, 1991: where the State has notified an area under section 3, a transfer of land or buildings there needs the Collector’s prior sanction after an inquiry into free consent and fair value, and a transfer without it is void under section 5; contravention carries imprisonment of three to five years under section 6D (Gujarat Act 12 of 1991, PRS Legislative Research). A 2026 amendment renames these “specified areas”, adds a Monitoring and Advisory Committee and extends the Collector’s checks (Bill 18 of 2026; DeshGujarat, March 2026); the government notified the amendment in July 2026, with the effective date to be notified separately (DeshGujarat, July 2026). As a due-diligence step, ask the Collector or Sub-Registrar whether the survey number lies in a notified area; we hold no list of notified areas.
Land Grabbing Act, 2020 and tribal land: the Gujarat Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 2020 works through district committees, and in December 2024 a Gujarat High Court bench issued guidelines for those committees (LiveLaw, December 2024). Land held by Scheduled Tribe occupants is separately restricted under section 73AA of the Land Revenue Code, which the 2020 Bill cross-refers to (PRS Legislative Research); we did not open the Code, so check the occupant’s status in the 7/12.
NRI & OCI buyers: regulation 3 of the Foreign Exchange Management (Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India) Regulations, 2018 lets NRIs and OCIs buy land other than agricultural land, a farm house or plantation property (Reserve Bank of India, 2018 regulations). Residential and commercial land is open to them. The same section 63 rule applies to a resident non-farmer.
- Agriculturists only (s.63)
- Ceiling Act 1960
- NA via s.65
- Fragmentation: 10 gunthas
- Disturbed Areas Act
- NRI agri: barred (RBI 2018)
- 7/12 via AnyROR
Banaskantha — district-specific notes
The Gujarat state page applies to Banaskantha in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page. District portal pages, PIB, PRS and Gujarat Tourism pages opened; the Revenue Department, AnyROR and gARVI portals did not, and the notes say where that matters.
⚠ The district was redrawn: Vav-Tharad was announced on 1 January 2025 (AIR News, January 2025), notified on 25 September 2025 and takes effect from 2 October 2025 with eight talukas (Deodar, Lakhani, Tharad, Rah, Vav, Dharnidhar, Suigam, Bhabhar), while Banaskantha keeps ten (DeshGujarat, September 2025). The January plan would also have moved Dhanera, Kankrej and Deodar, which drew protests (The Week, January 2025); Dhanera and Kankrej stayed. Older listings, jantri notes and documents may still say Banaskantha for a village that is now in Vav-Tharad, so check the present taluka and the Sub-Registrar office before paying a deposit.
⚠ Banaskantha is a border district: the district website says its border with Pakistan "touches the desert" and calls the borders sensitive, and it lies on Rajasthan's southern edge. That text describes the undivided district, and we cannot tell from it which part now falls in Vav-Tharad. We found no published rule on buying land in a border district, so ask the Collector in writing whether any restriction applies to the survey number.
⚠ Land near Deesa Air Force Station may carry defence-related conditions. A 2008 Revenue Department resolution lists 900 m limits from railways, airports and Air Force installations for NA permission (Revenue Department, 2008); it may have been superseded, and we found no Deesa-specific notification, so ask for the current position before buying near the airfield.
⚠ Two sanctuaries lie in the district: Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary, 180.66 sq km, established in May 1978 (Gujarat Tourism), and Balaram Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary, designated on 7 August 1989 (Gujarat Tourism). We did not find an eco-sensitive zone notification for either, so ask the Forest Department whether a parcel near the hills falls inside a boundary or buffer.
⚠ The Disturbed Areas Act, 1991 requires the Collector's prior sanction for transfers in a notified area, and a 2026 amendment replaces "disturbed area" with "specified area" (DeshGujarat, July 2026). We obtained no list of notified areas, so ask the Collector or Sub-Registrar whether the survey number lies in one.
Read the full Gujarat land buying guide for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and NRI rules.
- Border district
- Reconstituted Oct 2025
- Defence limits near Deesa
- Sanctuary boundaries
District overview
Banaskantha — a potato and castor district redrawn in 2025
Banaskantha is a north Gujarat district headquartered at Palanpur, on the state's border with Rajasthan (district NIC portal). On 1 January 2025 the state announced Vav-Tharad as its 34th district, cut out of Banaskantha (AIR News, January 2025). The notification followed on 25 September 2025 and the new district takes effect from 2 October 2025 (DeshGujarat, September 2025). Banaskantha is left with ten talukas: Palanpur, Vadgam, Danta, Hadad, Amirgadh, Deesa, Kankrej, Ogad, Dhanera and Dantiwada. Hadad and Ogad appear only in the later lists, and the cabinet's September 2025 batch of 17 new talukas included four in Banaskantha (The Week, September 2025).
We publish no price band for Banaskantha. No district jantri schedule and no series of registered sale deeds could be obtained, and the Gujarat government land-records and registration portals did not open for us. The only dated price reference is statewide: the jantri was reported doubled from 15 April 2023 (DeshGujarat, February 2023).
The district is farmland first. Potatoes reached a reported 18.70 lakh tonnes in 2024-25, the highest on record for Banaskantha (DeshGujarat, July 2025), and the district is among the top five castor districts in Gujarat (DESAGRI). Water is the constraint: Gujarat Samachar named Banaskantha among the north Gujarat districts under groundwater stress (Gujarat Samachar, September 2026), and Narmada water now reaches farm ponds through pipelines (DeshGujarat, March 2024).
- Palanpur
- Deesa
- Dhanera
- Danta (Ambaji)
- Potato belt
- Aravalli edge
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Banaskantha
4.9%
Stamp duty on a conveyance
audit year 2017-18 (CAG); current rate to confirm
Not sourced
Registration fee
no rate for land deeds found; ask the Sub-Registrar
15 Apr 2023
Jantri doubled (reported)
no Banaskantha schedule obtained
The Comptroller and Auditor General's audit for the year ended 31 March 2018 states stamp duty on a conveyance at 4.9 per cent and gives no registration-fee rate for conveyances (CAG Report 3 of 2019); a later change is not ruled out. Jantri rates were reported doubled from 15 April 2023 (DeshGujarat, February 2023), and a revised draft was still pending in November 2024 (The Secretariat, November 2024). We found no Banaskantha schedule. Registration runs on gARVI 2.0 across 294 Sub-Registrar offices (IGR summary, undated); we could not open the portal, so ask the Sub-Registrar for the duty, the fee and the jantri on your survey number. Because the district was redrawn in October 2025, confirm which Sub-Registrar office now covers the village.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Banaskantha
Mostly gaps. Two sourced farm signals (potatoes and Narmada pond water) and one honest note that no price series exists.
Jantri and registration cost
No district schedule found
Gujarat doubled its jantri from 15 April 2023 (DeshGujarat, February 2023) and a revised draft was pending in November 2024 (The Secretariat). We obtained no Banaskantha or village figure, and the October 2025 split may have changed how offices list villages.
Check: the current jantri for the survey number and the Sub-Registrar office that covers it.
Potatoes
18.70 lakh tonnes in 2024-25 (reported)
DeshGujarat reported a record 18.70 lakh tonnes from 61,016 hectares at 30.65 tonnes per hectare, without naming the dataset (DeshGujarat, July 2025). The year predates the split, so the figure covers talukas now in Vav-Tharad. The district portal gives an undated 17.10 lakh tonnes and 52% of the state crop (district portal).
Check: which crop and water source the seller actually relies on; a potato yield does not set a land price.
Deesa airfield
Civil terminal proposed (reported Feb 2026)
DeshGujarat reported in-principle approval to share Deesa Air Force Station with civil flights, about 100 acres earmarked for a terminal and a 3.3 km runway, citing unnamed officials (DeshGujarat, February 2026). No construction or opening date was given.
Check: whether any land near the airfield is under acquisition or defence restriction.
Narmada water for ponds
Tharad–Sipu pipeline inaugurated 7 Mar 2024
The 70 km, Rs 592 crore pipeline carries Narmada canal water to Sipu dam and 106 ponds (DeshGujarat, March 2024); a month later 38 ponds in Deesa taluka received Narmada water for the first time, with 52 more scheduled and groundwater in many Deesa villages reported as sharply lower (DeshGujarat, April 2024).
Check: whether the village is on the pond list and what the borewell depth has been.
Units: guntha, acre, vigha
A guntha is about 1,089 sq ft (101 sq m) and 40 gunthas make an acre; the vigha varies by region and we found no official conversion for Banaskantha, so ask for the area in acres and gunthas from the 7/12 record and convert every quote before comparing offers. The 2026 fragmentation amendment sets 10 gunthas (1,012 sq m) as the rural standard area (DeshGujarat, September 2026).
Connectivity
How Banaskantha connects — road, rail and air
No driving distances are given because no official or news source stated them. Journey times vary with traffic and road works.
By road
By air
By rail & metro
The practical question is the last leg from the highway to the parcel; ask for the access road in the revenue record. Statewide rules are on the Gujarat page.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Government-announced timelines are not guaranteed; items marked reported rest on a single news source.
01Open or inaugurated
05In progress or pending
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Banaskantha
A sandy bajra, castor and potato district at the Aravalli edge, where irrigation leans on borewells and Narmada pipelines are only beginning to reach ponds.
🌾 Sandy plains (Palanpur, Deesa, Dhanera)
The ICAR-CRIDA contingency plan for the undivided district (crop data 2004-05 to 2008-09, so dated) gives sandy soil on 53.1% of the area, loamy sand to sandy loam on 43.7% and medium black soil on 3.0%, with bajra on 176.3 thousand ha, castor on 71.7, pulses on 56.9, groundnut on 17.8 and cotton on 16.7 (ICAR-CRIDA Banaskantha plan). Castor is a state specialty: Gujarat grew 85.6% of India's castor in 2020-21 and Banaskantha is among its top districts (DESAGRI).
- Bajra
- Castor
- Potato
- Pulses
⛰️ Aravalli hills (Danta, Amirgadh)
The district portal describes extensions of the Aravalli range in the east and northeast, with flat to gently sloping plains in the centre and a drier, sandier west (district NIC portal). The hills hold Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary (180.66 sq km, May 1978) and Balaram Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary (7 August 1989), the latter protecting watersheds that feed the Dantiwada and Dharoi dams (Gujarat Tourism; Gujarat Tourism). Legal status counts for more than soil here.
- Aravalli
- Jessore
- Balaram Ambaji
🌊 Banas river and canal water
The district takes its name from the Banas, which rises near Mount Abu and does not reach the Rann of Kutch as a continuous river (district NIC portal). Narmada canal water arrives by pipeline rather than by open canal: the CRIDA plan records only 218 canal units and about 1.8 thousand ha of canal irrigation, while the Tharad–Sipu pipeline began filling ponds in 2024 (DeshGujarat, March 2024).
- Banas
- Narmada pipeline
- Sipu
💧 Water & rainfall
The CRIDA plan gives normal rainfall of 578 mm over 25 rainy days, all from the south-west monsoon, and an irrigated area of 472.1 thousand ha, of which borewells serve 75.3%, open wells 22.7% and canals under 1% (undivided district, undated statistics; ICAR-CRIDA plan). The groundwater table in that plan was left blank. Statewide, CGWB counted 22 over-exploited and 10 critical assessment units of 252 in 2024 and gives no district stage (CGWB, Gujarat 2024); Gujarat Samachar named Banaskantha among north Gujarat districts under stress (Gujarat Samachar, September 2026, press). Check borewell depth and yield on any parcel.
📐 Measurement units
Guntha = 1,089 sq ft; 40 gunthas = 1 acre; the vigha varies by region and has no official conversion we could find. Convert every quote to acres or sq m before comparing two offers. Crop income is modest next to land values near towns, so price a parcel on location, water and permitted use rather than on a potato or castor yield.
At a glance
Banaskantha vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Price band* (per acre) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Banaskantha (this page) | No sourced price series | No jantri schedule or registered-deal series obtained |
| Vav-Tharad | No sourced price series | Carved out from 2 Oct 2025; no figure used on this page |
| Patan | No sourced price series | No figure used on this page |
| Mehsana | No sourced price series | No figure used on this page |
*No price band is shown because no sourced series exists; jantri rates are registration floors, not market prices. See the Vav-Tharad page for the district carved out of Banaskantha, and the Patan page and Mehsana page for the neighbouring north Gujarat districts.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Banaskantha
Five reasoned points, with an honest note that price evidence is missing and several catalysts are still pending.
A district with new boundaries
The 2025 reorganisation left Banaskantha with ten talukas and Palanpur as headquarters. Buyers who check the present taluka and Sub-Registrar office avoid the common error of using older records.
A record potato crop
Potato output was reported at 18.70 lakh tonnes in 2024-25, a record. It shows farm activity, not land value, and the year covers the undivided district.
Rail and air projects with different odds
The Taranga Hill–Ambaji–Abu Road line is funded and under construction; the Deesa civil terminal is only in principle. This desk reads the first as a real change and the second as optionality.
Narmada water reaching ponds
The Tharad–Sipu pipeline has filled ponds in Deesa taluka since April 2024. Parcels on the pond list may see better recharge, though borewell levels remain the test.
A market that rewards paperwork
Farmer status, NA permission, border and defence questions and sanctuary boundaries are all parcel-specific. A buyer who documents each is better placed than one relying on a broker summary.
Confirm farmer status, NA, border and defence limits and sanctuary distance directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Banaskantha
Read these before shortlisting in Banaskantha specifically.
Reorganised district
Eight talukas moved to Vav-Tharad from 2 October 2025 (DeshGujarat, September 2025). Records, listings and jantri notes may carry the old district name, and the Sub-Registrar office for a village may have changed.
Border and defence-adjacent land
The district portal calls its borders sensitive (district website) and the 2008 resolution lists 900 m limits near Air Force installations (Revenue Department, 2008). We found no published purchase rule, so ask the Collector in writing.
Sanctuary edges
Jessore and Balaram Ambaji sanctuaries sit in the hills (Gujarat Tourism). We did not find eco-sensitive zone notifications, so ask the Forest Department about any parcel near the boundary.
Falling groundwater
Gujarat Samachar lists Banaskantha among north Gujarat districts under groundwater stress (Gujarat Samachar, September 2026) and DeshGujarat reported sharply lower levels in many Deesa villages (DeshGujarat, April 2024). Check borewell depth and yield.
Farmer-status rule and NA permission
Section 63 of the Tenancy Act bars transfers to non-agriculturists, and NA permission carries a premium that the press puts at 35 to 40 per cent of land value (Gujarat Samachar, March 2024). See the state page; no official schedule was found.
Announced is not delivered
The Tharad–Ahmedabad Expressway drew no bids for its 105.8 km section in March 2026 (DeshGujarat), the Deesa civil terminal is in principle only, and completion of the Kasara–Dantiwada pipeline was not found.
No sourced price series
We use no listing-site prices and no jantri schedule was obtained. Collect registered comparables from the Sub-Registrar before negotiating.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & forest offices
Mutation and revenue-record matters go through the Mamlatdar of the relevant taluka (Palanpur, Vadgam, Danta, Hadad, Amirgadh, Deesa, Kankrej, Ogad, Dhanera, Dantiwada), and appeals and sub-divisional matters through the Prant officer; the district website links Mamlatdar Office and Prant Office pages from its home page, which we did not open. The District Collector sits at Palanpur and handles NA permission, Disturbed Areas Act sanction and Land Grabbing Act committees. Sale-deed registration is at the local Sub-Registrar on gARVI; records are on AnyROR. Town planning rules sit in the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976, and the Forest Department confirms sanctuary and forest status. We could not open the AnyROR, gARVI or Revenue Department portals, so check them directly, and confirm the office for a village in the former Banaskantha area.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Banaskantha.
Visit full wiki01 of 04
Is Vav-Tharad still part of Banaskantha?
No. The state announced Vav-Tharad as a separate district, cut out of Banaskantha, on 1 January 2025 (AIR News, January 2025). The notification followed on 25 September 2025 and the district takes effect from 2 October 2025 with eight talukas: Deodar, Lakhani, Tharad, Rah, Vav, Dharnidhar, Suigam and Bhabhar. Banaskantha keeps ten, including Dhanera and Kankrej (DeshGujarat, September 2025). Check which district and Sub-Registrar office now cover a village.
02 of 04
What does agricultural land cost in Banaskantha?
We publish no price band. No district jantri schedule or series of registered sale deeds could be obtained, and the Gujarat registration portal did not open for us. The only dated reference is statewide: the jantri was reported doubled from 15 April 2023 (DeshGujarat, February 2023). Ask the Sub-Registrar for the jantri on your survey number and collect registered comparables before negotiating.
03 of 04
Can a non-farmer buy farmland in Banaskantha?
Section 63 of the Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 is headed "Transfers to non-agriculturist barred", and a state committee's proposal to relax it had produced no enactment by October 2026 (Gujarat Samachar, November 2024). Banaskantha adds district checks: it is a border district with no published purchase rule we could find, land near Deesa Air Force Station may carry defence limits, and sanctuary boundaries need a Forest Department answer.
04 of 04
Which projects affect Banaskantha land?
The 116.65 km Taranga Hill–Ambaji–Abu Road rail line is under construction, with four tunnels targeted for March 2027 (Construction World, March 2026). A civil terminal at Deesa Air Force Station was reported in principle in February 2026 (DeshGujarat). The Tharad–Ahmedabad Expressway drew no bids for a 105.8 km section in March 2026 (DeshGujarat), and its northern packages lie in Vav-Tharad.
Transparency
Sources and references
Law and courts
- Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 (ss. 2(2), 43, 63 headings), India Code
- An agriculturist is debarred from bequeathing agricultural land to a non-agriculturist, Mondaq, 29 Apr 2021
- Balancing reform and responsibility: rethinking land conversion policies, LiveLaw, 1 Apr 2025
- Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act, 1960 (Act 27 of 1961), PRS Legislative Research copy
- Gujarat Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property and Provision for Protection of Tenants from Eviction from Premises in Disturbed Areas Act (PRS copy)
- Disturbed Areas Act amendment Bill 18 of 2026, PRS Legislative Research
- Gujarat High Court guidelines on misuse of the Land Grabbing Act, LiveLaw, 11 Dec 2024
- Foreign Exchange Management (Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India) Regulations, 2018, Reserve Bank of India
- Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976, India Code (not opened for this page)
- Gujarat Land Revenue (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 10 of 2025), PRS Legislative Research
Government
- Banaskantha district website (home page links only)
- About Banaskantha, Banaskantha district website (undivided district, 10,751 sq km)
- About district, Banaskantha NIC portal
- Taluka list, Banaskantha NIC portal
- Potatoes, Banaskantha NIC portal (undated)
- Agriculture contingency plan for Banaskantha district, ICAR-CRIDA (crop data 2004-09, undated statistics)
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Gujarat 2024, Central Ground Water Board
- Stamp duty and registration fees, CAG Report 3 of 2019 (Gujarat revenue sector, year ended 31 Mar 2018), chapter 4
- Registration System of Gujarat (gARVI 2.0, 294 Sub-Registrar offices), Inspector General of Registration, undated
- Castor crop cultivation in Gujarat 2021-22, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture
- Revenue Department resolution on NA permission, 1 Jul 2008, Gujarat Revenue Department
- PM lays foundation stone of projects worth over Rs 8,000 crores in Tharad, Banaskantha, Prime Minister's Office, 31 Oct 2022
- Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Gujarat Tourism
- Balaram Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat Tourism
- Amrit Bharat Station Scheme making rapid progress, PIB, 12 Mar 2026
- State-wise details of notified Fifth Schedule areas, Ministry of Panchayati Raj
- Tenancy section, Surat Collectorate
- gARVI registration portal, Gujarat (not opened for this page)
- AnyROR land records portal, Gujarat (not opened for this page)
- Mamlatdar Office page, Banaskantha district website (not opened for this page)
- Prant Office page, Banaskantha district website (not opened for this page)
- Gujarat govt approves creation of new district named Vav-Tharad, AIR News, 1 Jan 2025
News
- Vav-Tharad to become 34th district of Gujarat, DeshGujarat, 1 Jan 2025
- Gujarat govt notifies creation of Vav-Tharad district, DeshGujarat, 25 Sep 2025
- Jitters in new district: three talukas refrain from joining Vav-Tharad, Gujarat Samachar, 2 Jan 2025
- Protests in three talukas set to be delinked from Banaskantha, PTI via The Week, 2 Jan 2025
- Gujarat emerges as largest producer of processed potatoes, DeshGujarat, 14 Jul 2025
- Deesa Air Force Station to become first civilian airport for North Gujarat, DeshGujarat, 3 Feb 2026
- PM Modi lays foundation stone of strategic Deesa airfield, Swarajya, 20 Oct 2022
- Tharad-Ahmedabad Expressway: route, interchanges, details and current status, DeshGujarat, 24 Apr 2025
- NHAI fails to attract bids for 105-km section of Tharad-Ahmedabad Expressway under BOT, DeshGujarat, 24 Mar 2026
- Taranga Hill Ambaji Abu Road rail project construction begins, Construction World, 27 Mar 2026
- Cabinet approves Taranga Hill-Ambaji-Abu Road new rail line project, IIFL News, 14 Jul 2022
- Centre approves rail line link to 3 religious places in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Deccan Herald, 14 Jul 2022
- Sipu pipeline project inaugurated, DeshGujarat, 7 Mar 2024
- 38 ponds in Deesa receive Narmada water for the first time, DeshGujarat, 3 Apr 2024
- Amrit Bharat Scheme: railway minister updates on redevelopment, DeshGujarat, 1 Aug 2025
- Jantri rate hike effective from April 15, DeshGujarat, 11 Feb 2023
- Disturbed Areas Act amendment notified: "specified area", DeshGujarat, 15 Jul 2026
- Assembly passes tukda (fragmentation) amendment bill, DeshGujarat, 11 Sep 2026
- Major changes likely in Gujarat tenancy and agricultural land laws, Gujarat Samachar, 9 Mar 2024
- Gujarat faces growing groundwater crisis, Gujarat Samachar, 28 Sep 2026
Further reading
- Gujarat assessing non-farmers access to agricultural land, Gujarat Samachar, 12 Nov 2024
- Gujarat to revise minimum rates for agricultural land, The Secretariat, 13 Nov 2024
- Land revenue law amended: notice waived for undisputed deals, DeshGujarat, 1 Apr 2026
- Best practices report, Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation (SAUNI), Ministry of Jal Shakti
- 69,800 km of Narmada canals done, DeshGujarat, 8 Mar 2025
- Sardar Sarovar dam supplies water to 3 crore people, IANS via India Tribune, 21 Mar 2026
- Gujarat cabinet approves 17 new talukas, PTI via The Week, 24 Sep 2025
- 10,000 farmers will be affected by Ahmedabad-Tharad highway project, Gujarat Samachar, 4 Aug 2024
- Gujarat farmer verification process streamlined, SCC Online, 25 Sep 2024
Data-currency note: the district was reconstituted from 2 October 2025, so population, area and the ICAR-CRIDA crop, irrigation and rainfall tables (2004-09 crops, undated statistics) describe the undivided district. Potato output is a July 2025 press figure for the year 2024-25. Official Gujarat government portals (Revenue Department, AnyROR, gARVI) did not open for our automated fetch; district NIC and website pages, PIB, PRS and CGWB documents did.
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