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Aerial view of agricultural land and farm fields near Mahisagar, Gujarat

District guide

Buying Land in Mahisagar

A river-and-dam district in central-east Gujarat: wheat, cotton and maize on Mahi canals, a large forest share, no station or airport on the portal and one new taluka reported.

  • 2,531 sq km

    Area (ICAR-CRIDA plan)

  • 6, plus 1 reported

    Talukas (district portal)

  • 831.8 mm

    Normal rainfall (plan)

  • Godhra, 50 km

    Nearest station (portal)

District land record — Mahisagar

Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk

State

Gujarat

Sub-divisions

6 talukas on the district portal (Lunawada, Khanpur, Balasinor, Virpur, Santrampur, Kadana) (Mahisagar district portal, undated); PTI reported one further new taluka for Mahisagar in September 2025, name not given (The Week, September 2025)

Key markets

Lunawada (headquarters) · Balasinor · Santrampur · Khanpur · Virpur · Kadana

Demand anchors

Mahi river and Kadana Dam irrigation · Balasinor dinosaur fossil park visitors · access to Godhra rail junction, 50 km away per the portal; no sourced road or rail project inside the district

Rail

No railway station in the district, according to the district portal; nearest is Godhra in Panchmahal, 50 km (Mahisagar district portal, undated). CONFIRM, because the page is undated

Size and population

About 2,531 sq km of geographical area in the ICAR-CRIDA plan, year not stated (ICAR-CRIDA Mahisagar plan); population not obtained from an opened source

Pricing unit

₹/acre or ₹/guntha (farmland) · ₹/sq yd (plots)

Local units

Guntha = 1,089 sq ft (about 101 sq m) · 40 gunthas = 1 acre · vigha varies by region

Land records portal

anyror.gujarat.gov.in (not opened for this page; check village records there)

District overview

Mahisagar — a river-and-dam district in central-east Gujarat

Mahisagar was carved out of Panchmahal and Kheda and came into existence on 26 January 2013, becoming operational on 15 August 2013 with Lunawada as its headquarters; the district takes its name from the Mahi river, which the portal says flows from east to west (Mahisagar district portal, undated). The portal lists six talukas (Mahisagar district portal, Tehsil), and PTI reported that the cabinet approved one more in Mahisagar in September 2025 without naming it (PTI via The Week, September 2025). The Kaleshwari group of monuments is near Lavana village in Khanpur taluka and the Kadana Dam is on the Mahi (Mahisagar district portal, tourist places); the Balasinor fossil park at Raiyoli is described as about 87 to 90 km from Ahmedabad (Gujarat Tourism).

We publish no per-acre price band for Mahisagar. No district or village jantri schedule opened for us, and listing-site asking prices could not be traced to registered deals. The state-level reference is the jantri doubling from 15 April 2023 (DeshGujarat, February 2023), with a revised draft still pending in November 2024 (The Secretariat, November 2024).

Access is the first question. The portal says the district has no airport (Ahmedabad is 127 km away) and no railway station (Godhra is 50 km away) (Mahisagar district portal, How to reach). Godhra Jn is in the completed list of the Amrit Bharat station scheme (PIB, March 2026). We found no sourced road or rail project inside Mahisagar, so this page lists none as a catalyst.

  • Lunawada
  • Balasinor
  • Santrampur
  • Khanpur
  • Kadana Dam
  • Mahi river
Locator map of Mahisagar district in Gujarat

Transaction costs

Stamp duty & registration in Mahisagar

4.9%

Stamp duty on conveyance

audit year 2017-18 (CAG); current rate not confirmed

Not sourced

Registration fee on land deeds

no page found; ask the Sub-Registrar

Not sourced

Concessions for women buyers

no government source found

The CAG audit of the year ended 31 March 2018 records stamp duty on conveyance at 4.9% (CAG Report 3 of 2019). That is the only dated rate we could trace, so treat it as a reference and ask the Sub-Registrar for the rate in force. Registration runs through gARVI 2.0 at 294 Sub-Registrar offices (Inspector General of Registration summary; the gARVI portal would not open for us). Duty is charged against the higher of the stated value and the jantri value; we did not see an official page stating that rule for Gujarat. The jantri was doubled from 15 April 2023 (DeshGujarat, February 2023). The 2026 mutation reform is described by DeshGujarat, April 2026.

Know the belt

What is moving prices in Mahisagar

Official numbers are thin for Mahisagar: a statewide jantri change and an agriculture plan with dated, partly blank tables. No listing-site prices are used.

Jantri: state-wide, not village-wise

Doubled from 15 April 2023 (reported)

DeshGujarat reported that jantri rates would double from 15 April 2023 after about twelve years (DeshGujarat, February 2023), and The Secretariat reported a revised draft for agricultural land pending in November 2024 (The Secretariat, November 2024). We did not obtain a Mahisagar village schedule.

Check: the jantri value for the exact survey number on the Sub-Registrar's listing.

Remote from rail and air

No station or airport in the district (portal)

The portal places the nearest station at Godhra, 50 km, and the nearest airport at Ahmedabad, 127 km (Mahisagar district portal, How to reach). That is a reason prices may differ from the highway belts, but we have no price series to show it.

Check: the road access and the drive to Godhra and Ahmedabad on the day you visit.

Irrigated cotton and wheat

Crop income is not a land price

The plan shows wheat on 82,630 hectares, cotton on 54,750 irrigated hectares, maize on 39,400 and groundnut on 33,900, with canals supplying 76.7% of irrigated area (ICAR-CRIDA Mahisagar plan). Production data are 2004-08 averages and the land-use year is not stated.

Check: canal or Mahi water entitlement for the parcel, not the district average.

Asking prices

No sourced price series

Listing-site asking prices for Mahisagar could not be traced to registered deals, so none are shown. The jantri value is a floor for duty, not what a seller will accept.

Check: registered deeds in the same village before negotiating.

Units: guntha, acre, vigha

Gujarat farmland is measured in gunthas (1 guntha is about 101 sq m or 1,089 sq ft) and acres, with 40 gunthas to the acre. The vigha varies by region and we found no official conversion, so ask the Talati for the area in the 7/12 extract in sq m and convert from that. We did not open a revenue manual for these definitions.

Connectivity

How Mahisagar connects — road, rail and air

Distances are the district portal's own and are undated; journey times vary with traffic and road works.

By road

Regular bus servicesReported by the portal from major cities
AhmedabadAirport 127 km per the portal
Road projects in the districtNone found in the sources read

By air

Airport in the districtNone, per the portal
Nearest scheduled airportAhmedabad, 127 km
Air projectsNone found in the sources read

By rail

Station in the districtNone, per the portal; CONFIRM
Nearest stationGodhra, 50 km, in Panchmahal
Godhra JnIn the completed list of the Amrit Bharat scheme (PIB, Mar 2026)

The practical question is the last leg from the highway to the parcel; ask for the access road in the 7/12 and the village map. Distances come from the district portal. Rules for buyers from outside the state: Gujarat agricultural land rules.

Growth catalysts

Upcoming infrastructure & developments

Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. We found no sourced road, rail or airport project inside Mahisagar, so the tabs list only administrative and statewide items.

01Open or in service

02In progress or pending

Reported Sep 2025 · name not given A seventh taluka for Mahisagar
Completed list · Mar 2026 Godhra Jn station upgrade
Passed 11 Sep 2026 · Act text not seen Fragmentation law amendment (statewide)
Reported Sep 2025 · name not given

A seventh taluka for Mahisagar

PTI reported that the Gujarat cabinet approved 17 new talukas in September 2025 with one in Mahisagar, raising the state total to 265, and did not name the taluka (PTI via The Week, September 2025). The district portal still lists six (Mahisagar district portal, Tehsil). A new taluka means a new Mamlatdar office and possibly changed revenue-record references, so ask which taluka a survey number now belongs to.

Source: PTI via The Week, 24 Sep 2025; Mahisagar district portal

New talukas

1 reported

Name

Not given

State total

265 reported

Status

Reported

Land markets in the blast radius

  • Mahisagar
Completed list · Mar 2026

Godhra Jn station upgrade

Godhra Jn, the station the portal names as nearest to Mahisagar, appears in the list of completed stations in the Press Information Bureau release of 12 March 2026 (PIB, March 2026). Godhra is in Panchmahal, not Mahisagar, and the release gives no scope or cost for it.

Source: PIB, 12 Mar 2026

Station

Godhra Jn

District

Panchmahal

Scheme

Amrit Bharat

Status

Completed list

Land markets in the blast radius

  • Lunawada side
  • Santrampur side
Passed 11 Sep 2026 · Act text not seen

Fragmentation law amendment (statewide)

Not a road, but it changes what can be bought: the amendment sets 10 gunthas as the rural standard area and regularises past breaches from 1948 to 31 March 2026 without penalty, with urban development areas excluded (DeshGujarat, September 2026). Check the notified Act and the village status before relying on it.

Source: DeshGujarat, 11 Sep 2026

Rural standard area

10 gunthas

Regularisation window

1948 to 31 Mar 2026

Urban areas

Excluded

Status

Passed

Land markets in the blast radius

  • All Mahisagar talukas

Agriculture & terrain

Soil, crops & water in Mahisagar

A Mahi-river district of wheat, irrigated cotton, maize and groundnut, with a large forest share and canal irrigation.

🌾 Crops and land use

The ICAR-CRIDA plan (production data 2004-08, land-use year not stated) shows a net sown area of 128,688 hectares and a gross cropped area of 159,173 hectares, a cropping intensity of 123.7%. Wheat covers 82,630 hectares, irrigated cotton 54,750, maize 39,400, groundnut 33,900 and castor 22,660 (ICAR-CRIDA Mahisagar plan). Village-level soil data: Soil Health Card portal (not opened for this page).

  • Wheat
  • Cotton
  • Maize
  • Groundnut

🌳 Forest and hilly light soils

The plan reports 63,750 hectares of forest and describes hilly light soils, medium black shallow soils and sandy loam (ICAR-CRIDA Mahisagar plan). That is about a quarter of the district's geographical area, so forest and protected-area checks apply more here than in the plains districts.

  • Forest
  • Hilly light soils
  • Black soil

🌊 Mahi river and Kadana

The portal says the Mahi flows east to west and names the district (Mahisagar district portal, About); the Kadana Dam is on the Mahi (Mahisagar district portal, Tourist places). The plan says canals supply 76.7% of irrigated area. We found no flood or backwater study for the district, so ask the seller for flood and submergence history on riverside parcels.

  • Mahi river
  • Kadana Dam
  • Canals

💧 Water & rainfall

The ICAR-CRIDA plan gives a normal annual rainfall of 831.8 mm over 36.2 rainy days and a net irrigated area of about 75,742 hectares against 90,821 rainfed (ICAR-CRIDA Mahisagar plan); its tables are partly blank and unlabeled in places. Statewide, CGWB assessed 252 units in 2024 with 22 over-exploited, 10 critical and 24 semi-critical and extraction at 54.21% (CGWB, Gujarat 2024); that report gives no district-wise stage that we could read, and the September 2026 Gujarat Samachar groundwater report did not mention Mahisagar (Gujarat Samachar, September 2026). Check the borewell yield and canal access for any parcel.

📐 Measurement units

Gujarat land units: 1 guntha is about 101 sq m (1,089 sq ft); 40 gunthas make one acre. The vigha differs by region and we found no official conversion, so ask for sq m. Convert every quote before comparing two offers; mandi prices are on Agmarknet (not opened for this page), and crop income is modest next to land values.

At a glance

Mahisagar vs. its neighbours

District / beltPrice evidence*Evidence
MahisagarNo sourced price seriesNo district jantri schedule obtained; state jantri doubled from Apr 2023 (reported)
DahodNo sourced price seriesDahod's page on this site records that it borders Mahisagar; no figure used here
AnandNo sourced price seriesNo figure used on this page
Panchmahal (Godhra)No sourced price seriesNearest rail junction per the portal; no figure used

*Reported or listed evidence only; the jantri is a registration floor, not a market price. See the Dahod page and Anand page for nearby districts, and Mehsana for a north Gujarat district page.

Farmhouse plot with boundary stones near Mahisagar, Gujarat

District report — Mahisagar

Farmland India view

Why investors look at Mahisagar

Five reasoned points, with an honest note that price evidence is thin and no big corridor project is sourced inside the district.

Irrigated farmland on the Mahi

Canals supply 76.7% of the irrigated area in the CRIDA plan, and wheat and irrigated cotton lead the crop mix. Water entitlement is the asset to check.

A young district

Created in 2013 and set to gain another taluka, Mahisagar is still building its administration; offices and record references may change.

Remote from rail and air

No station or airport in the district on the portal's account. That limits the commuter case; the return case is land use and water.

Forest and tribal-land checks matter

About a quarter of the area is forest in the plan. Check forest, protected-area and section 73AA status per survey number.

Paperwork is parcel-specific

Farmer status, NA permission, the 10-guntha rule and the Disturbed Areas check differ per survey number; a buyer who documents them is better placed than one relying on a broker summary.

Confirm farmer status, forest and NA status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.

STRAIGHT TALK

Risks & challenges in Mahisagar

Read these before shortlisting in Mahisagar specifically.

Farmer-status rule

Most Mahisagar land is agricultural, so section 63 matters in almost every deal. Ask for the route in writing; we have not seen the operative text.

Forest and tribal land

About a quarter of the district is forest in the CRIDA plan. Ask for forest and section 73AA status; we found no village list.

River and dam proximity

Riverside and reservoir-edge parcels may face flood or submergence questions. No study found; ask the seller for history.

Fragmentation and urban limits

The 10-guntha rural standard comes from a news report of a September 2026 bill; the Act text and urban-area limits are unconfirmed.

Disturbed Areas check

Transfers inside a notified area need Collector sanction. No list of areas obtained; ask the Collector or Sub-Registrar.

Thin access evidence

The portal says no station or airport, and the page is undated. No sourced road project inside the district.

Taluka boundaries are changing

A new taluka was reported in September 2025. Confirm which Mamlatdar office holds the record.

No sourced price series

We use no listing-site prices; the jantri is a floor. Collect registered comparables.

Who to contact

Local revenue, planning & registration offices

Mutation and revenue-record matters go through the Mamlatdar of the relevant taluka; the Mahisagar district portal lists six talukas and describes the Mamlatdar's revenue role. The Mahisagar district website lists the Collector's office and a Jan Seva Kendra offering 31 revenue services; we did not find a Prant page. The Collector handles NA permission and tenure matters. Sale-deed registration is at the local Sub-Registrar through gARVI (gARVI), and village records are on AnyROR. The Revenue Department, AnyROR and gARVI sites would not open for us, so check them directly. No phone numbers or officials' names are given here.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently asked questions

Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Mahisagar.

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What does agricultural land cost in Mahisagar?

We publish no per-acre band for Mahisagar. No district or village jantri schedule opened for us, and listing-site asking prices could not be traced to registered deals. The state-level reference is the jantri doubling from 15 April 2023 (DeshGujarat, February 2023); a revised draft was pending in November 2024 (The Secretariat). The jantri is a registration floor, not a market price.

Transparency

Sources and references

Law and courts

Government

News

Further reading

Data-currency note: the district portal pages are undated; crop and irrigation data are from a plan with 2004-08 production averages and unstated land-use year; groundwater is the 2024 state assessment; statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly; the stamp-duty rate is from an audit of 2017-18. Pages marked "not opened" are named only as places to check. This is a general guide, not legal advice. Report inaccuracies to wiki@farmlandindia.com.

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