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District guide
Buying Land in Alirajpur
A hilly, majority-tribal district on the Gujarat border, carved from Jhabua in 2008: tribal-land permission rules, no sourced price series, indicative bands only.
3,182 sq km
Area (district portal)
7.29 lakh
Population (district portal)
₹2–20 lakh per acre
Estimated land price*
5
Tehsils (district portal)
*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 — Alirajpur
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Madhya Pradesh
Sub-divisions
Five tehsils: Alirajpur, Jobat, Sondwa, Kattiwada and Chandra Shekhar Azad Nagar (Bhabhra) (Alirajpur portal, about the district)
Key markets
Alirajpur · Jobat · Sondwa · Kattiwada · Bhabhra
Demand anchors
Position on the south-western edge of the Malwa plateau, bordering Gujarat and Maharashtra, as the portal describes it · Dahod (Gujarat) railway station 75 km and Vadodara airport 170 km (Alirajpur portal, how to reach)
Rail
No station inside the district is named on the portal; Dahod, 75 km away, is the nearest station, and the portal says a new railway route to Alirajpur through Dahod is under process, with no date (Alirajpur portal, how to reach)
Size and population
3,182 sq km · 7,28,999 people · 552 villages (Alirajpur district portal, October 2026; the home page does not state the Census year, while the about page gives 3,182 sq km and 7,28,677 people at Census 2011)
Created
17 May 2008, from Jhabua district (Alirajpur portal)
Estimated land price*
₹2–20 lakh per acre* (wide band: hilly interior to road-side near the tehsil towns; see price section). *Indicative only, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. Check the guideline or ready-reckoner rate with the Sub-Registrar.
Pricing unit
₹/acre (farm land) · records in hectares
Local units
Area is recorded in hectares; local units vary by district and tehsil, so convert every quote to acres or hectares (1 hectare is about 2.47 acres)
Land records portal
MP Bhulekh (not opened for this page; ask the seller for a fresh khasra and B-1 extract)
Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Madhya Pradesh page and apply to every district within it.
Alirajpur — land purchase legal rules
⚠ Madhya Pradesh does not run on a single rule for farmland. Tribal land, land above the holding ceiling, diverted land and ordinary farmland each follow a different track, and the Collector’s office sits at the centre of the first. Work out which track a parcel is on before looking at the price.
Which office decides what: A member of a tribe that the Code treats as aboriginal needs written permission from a revenue officer of at least Collector rank to sell land outside a notified area, and in a notified area the bar on sale to a non-tribal is absolute (section 165(6); Supreme Court, April 2025). The Supreme Court accepted in April 2025 that an Additional Collector can grant that permission under a valid work-allocation order (Lawyer E-News, April 2025). Sale deeds are registered through the Registration Department, which launched the Sampada 2.0 online registration system in October 2024 (The Statesman, October 2024).
Section 165 and tribal land: The April 2025 judgment concerned 6.29 hectares in Ratlam district outside the notified tehsils; the sale went through because the Additional Collector had given written permission, the price was above market value and a 10-year bar on changing the land’s use was attached under section 165(6-ee) (Supreme Court, April 2025). The High Court had earlier upheld the same sale and noted the Patwari’s report, the sellers’ need to fund a marriage and settle loans, and the land they kept (High Court, October 2023). Permission is a gate, not a formality: a sale with no permission is exposed. Under section 170B a transfer made by fraud can be reverted to the tribal owner or heirs, and the Supreme Court in March 2019 held that a civil court could not revisit a Collector’s 1985 section 170B order that had survived a writ petition (Supreme Court, March 2019).
Wills and indirect transfers: In February 2025 the High Court held that “transfer” in section 165(6) is not confined to sale and covers a Will of tribal land in favour of a non-tribal, so Collector permission was needed there too (High Court, February 2025). A buyer cannot assume that an inheritance document or a power of attorney avoids the permission step. There is a narrow carve-out: in October 2024 the High Court, relying on an older Division Bench ruling, held that sections 165(6) and 170 do not apply to Nazul land in an urban area, and sent the question of whether a given parcel was Nazul or Abadi back to the Additional Commissioner (High Court, October 2024).
Diversion and the Code: Turning farmland to another use is a diversion. A June 2022 High Court order refers to land “diverted under section 172” to non-agricultural purposes, and the Supreme Court has described section 59 as allowing reassessment of land revenue on a change of use, with a premium that the Sub-Divisional Officer may impose (High Court, June 2022; Supreme Court, August 2008). We could not read the current text of sections 172 and 190, so this page does not describe their procedure or fees, and a seller’s diversion order should be read in full, not taken on trust.
Ceiling on holdings: The Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 caps how much one holder or family may hold and provides for acquiring surplus land. In the 2021 case the Supreme Court quoted section 7(b) as allowing a family of five or fewer 54 acres, and set aside surplus declarations where a pending suit had not been disclosed (Supreme Court, January 2021). A legal-database copy of the Act lists three tiers for a family of five or fewer: 18 acres of two-crop irrigated land, 27 acres of one-crop irrigated land and 54 acres of dry land, and says land cannot be transferred before the final ceiling order without the Collector’s written permission, unless the holder is within the ceiling (legal database text of the 1960 Act). Treat those figures as the Act’s text as published there, and have a lawyer check the current schedule before buying a large holding.
Who may buy: None of the court orders or Act texts we opened bars a buyer simply for not being a farmer; the limits that turned up were the tribal-land permission in section 165(6) and the ceiling on holdings. We found no state notice listing other buyer conditions, so confirm with the Registration Department and the Collector’s office that none applies to the district you are looking at.
Registration and stamping: The Indian Stamp (Madhya Pradesh Second Amendment) Act, 2025 was published on 17 December 2025 and changes how short-stamped documents are handled, including a penalty of 1% of the deficient portion per month (TeamLease RegTech, December 2025). Duty rates are covered in the stamp duty section below.
Land records: Madhya Pradesh land records (khasra and the B-1 extract) are issued through the state’s MP Bhulekh portal. We could not open that portal for this page and found no independent description of its current fields or fees, so ask the seller for a fresh extract and compare the survey number, area and recorded owner with the sale deed.
NRI and OCI buyers: The Reserve Bank’s Master Direction under FEMA 1999 excludes agricultural land, plantation land and a farm house from what NRIs and OCIs may buy, in Madhya Pradesh as elsewhere (RBI Master Direction FED 12/2015-16, updated to September 2022). They can buy other immovable assets such as residential or commercial sites, and inheritance is treated separately in the Direction. Benami-law exposure was not checked against the Act text for this page, so take legal advice before using a nominee.
- Land Revenue Code 1959
- Section 165(6) tribal land
- Ceiling Act 1960
- Wills need permission
- NRI agri: barred (FEMA)
- Sampada 2.0
Alirajpur — district-specific notes
The Madhya Pradesh state page applies to Alirajpur in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page. Law was read from court orders and a legal-database copy of the Scheduled Areas Order; the Land Revenue Code, India Code and the MP Bhulekh portal could not be opened.
⚠ Alirajpur is a majority-tribal district: the portal says tribal people form the majority of the population (Alirajpur portal). It was carved out of Jhabua in 2008 (Alirajpur portal), and the legal-database copy of the Scheduled Areas Order, 2003 that we read lists Jhabua district in full (Scheduled Areas Order, 2003 (legal-database copy)). We therefore expect the district to remain a notified Scheduled Area, but we did not find a post-2008 notification, so CONFIRM with the gazette and the Collector. In a notified area the bar on sale of tribal land to a non-tribal is absolute; outside one, a member of a tribe that the Land Revenue Code treats as aboriginal needs written permission from a revenue officer of at least Collector rank (section 165(6); Supreme Court, April 2025).
⚠ A Will of tribal land in favour of a non-tribal needs the same permission (High Court, February 2025), and a transfer made by fraud can be reverted under section 170B (Supreme Court, March 2019). In a district like this, most farm parcels are likely to be tribal-held, so the first question for any parcel is who the recorded holder is and whether the title chain ever passed through a non-tribal sale without permission.
⚠ Turning farm land to another use is a diversion. A 2022 High Court order refers to land "diverted under section 172", and the Supreme Court has described section 59 as allowing reassessment on a change of use with a premium (High Court, June 2022; Supreme Court, August 2008). We could not read the current text of sections 172 and 190, so read any diversion order in full. The Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 caps holdings: the Supreme Court quoted section 7(b) as 54 acres for a family of five or fewer in 2021 (Supreme Court, January 2021), and a legal-database copy lists 18, 27 and 54 acre tiers and bars transfer before the final ceiling order without the Collector’s written permission (legal-database text). Treat the tiers as CONFIRM and ask a Madhya Pradesh lawyer for the current schedule before assembling a large holding.
⚠ We found no tiger-reserve buffer, eco-sensitive zone or mining-lease land reported for this district in the sources opened, and we did not search forest records, so ask the Divisional Forest Officer whether any khasra touches forest land. None of the court orders or Act texts opened for the Madhya Pradesh state page bars a buyer for not being a farmer; the limits found were the tribal-land permission and the holding ceiling. NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land, plantation land or a farm house under the RBI Master Direction (RBI Master Direction FED 12/2015-16, updated to September 2022).
Read the state-wise land laws guide for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and NRI rules, and the Madhya Pradesh state page for the corridor overview.
- Section 165(6) tribal land
- Scheduled Area (CONFIRM)
- Ceiling Act 1960
- Land Revenue Code s.172
District overview
Alirajpur — a hilly, majority-tribal district on the Gujarat border with no sourced price series
Alirajpur lies on the Vindhyan range north of the Narmada, on the south-western edge of the Malwa plateau, and borders Gujarat and Maharashtra, according to the district portal (Alirajpur portal, about the district). The portal gives 3,182 sq km, 7,28,999 people and 552 villages, without a Census year, and says the district was formed from Jhabua on 17 May 2008 (Alirajpur district portal). The terrain is hilly and the portal says tribal people form the majority.
We found no official per-acre figure for Alirajpur. The only dated guideline-rate items we could source are statewide: a 2023 revision at about 18,000 locations and a 12% average rise proposed for Bhopal in 2026 (Free Press Journal, March 2023; Dainik Jagran English, 25 March 2026). The bands on this page, marked with an asterisk, are our own indicative ranges derived by analogy with other tribal-belt Madhya Pradesh districts and kept wide. A guideline rate is a floor for registration, not what a seller will accept.
Alirajpur is farm and hill land first. The district industrial profile on the DCMSME site (an older edition with 2010-11 data) lists no railway, no national highway, 45 km of state highway and 85 km of major district roads, no industrial area and 230 registered units, and calls mango the main produce, with the Alirajpur trading yard the largest in the state for mango (DCMSME district industrial profile). No profile exists for the district itself in the sources we read; the 2013 CGWB booklet for undivided Jhabua lists soybean, gram, maize, wheat, jowar, rice, urad, cotton and groundnut as principal crops and puts the whole district at 46% groundwater development, all blocks Safe (CGWB profile, 2013). That booklet does not list Alirajpur as a block, so its figures are context, not a district reading. The portal says Indore is 200 km by direct bus (Alirajpur portal, how to reach). Two new rail lines are reported at survey or report stage (Free Press Journal, July 2026; ETV Bharat, July 2025) and neither has a reported sanction, so the upside rests on distance from larger markets being closed, not on a named project.
- Alirajpur
- Jobat
- Sondwa
- Kattiwada
- Bhabhra
- Tribal belt
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Alirajpur
7.5%
Stamp duty, as reported
of market value or transaction value, whichever is higher; press report, department page not opened
3%
Registration fee, as reported
on the same base; press report, department page not opened
~10.5%
Combined, reported arithmetic
an earlier report put the range at 9.5% to 12.5%; confirm with the Sub-Registrar
Dainik Jagran English reported on 27 March 2026 stamp duty of 7.5% and a registration charge of 3% on the higher of market value or transaction value (Dainik Jagran English, March 2026). Its 25 March piece said a guideline-rate rise would raise duty and fees in proportion (Dainik Jagran English, 25 March 2026). We could not open the Registration Department’s own fee page, so treat these as reported figures and ask the Sub-Registrar for the current schedule for agricultural land. Since 17 December 2025 a short-stamped document attracts a penalty of 1% of the shortfall per month (TeamLease RegTech, December 2025). Registration can be done online through Sampada 2.0, which also shows guideline rates by location (The Statesman, October 2024). Alirajpur-specific schedules, if any, were not found.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Alirajpur
No official per-acre series was found. The cards below carry estimated bands (asterisk) and say what to check. *Indicative only, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. Check the guideline or ready-reckoner rate with the Sub-Registrar.
Alirajpur and Jobat: road-side and tehsil-town land
Estimated ₹6–20 lakh per acre*
Alirajpur and Jobat are tehsil headquarters and the best-connected parts of the district by the portal’s bus and road description (Alirajpur portal). The band is derived by analogy with tribal-belt districts such as Dhar and Khargone and is widened for frontage. No frontage rate was sourced.
Check: whether the recorded holder is tribal, the width of the road and the access path in the revenue record.
Sondwa, Kattiwada and Bhabhra: hilly interior
Estimated ₹2–8 lakh per acre*
The portal describes hilly terrain and a tribal-majority population (Alirajpur portal). Distance from the main roads and the tribal-land permission requirement pull the estimate down. No registered series was found.
Check: title chain, section 165(6) permission and whether the khasra is cultivated or forest land.
Irrigated plain pockets
Estimated ₹5–15 lakh per acre*
The older Jhabua booklet shows dug wells irrigating about 22,000 hectares and canals about 9,800 hectares for the undivided district (CGWB profile, 2013), which suggests water is available in pockets. We did not find which pockets fall in Alirajpur, so the band is deliberately wide.
Check: the irrigation source recorded in the khasra and borewell yield.
Guideline rates
No Alirajpur figure found
Statewide, rates were revised at about 18,000 locations from 1 April 2023 (Free Press Journal, March 2023), and the 2026-27 proposal reported for Bhopal does not cover Alirajpur (Dainik Jagran English, 25 March 2026).
Check: the rate for the village on the Sampada 2.0 portal or at the Sub-Registrar on the day of registration.
Units: acres, hectares and local terms
Land in Madhya Pradesh is recorded by survey number, with area in hectares in court orders and acres in the Ceiling Act figures; one hectare is about 2.47 acres (our arithmetic). Local units vary by district and tehsil and no revenue manual was opened for them, so convert every quote to acres or hectares and ask the Patwari what the khasra records before comparing two offers.
Connectivity
How Alirajpur connects — road, rail and air
Distances come from the district portal’s own how-to-reach page; no independent drive times were checked.
By road
By air
By rail & metro
The practical question is the last leg from the main road to the parcel; ask for the access road in the revenue record. Full rules: Madhya Pradesh land laws.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. No project was found located inside Alirajpur other than existing roads; the two rail lines are at survey or report stage and the expressway is in a neighbouring district.
01Open or operating
03In progress or pending
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Alirajpur
A hilly tribal-belt district where soybean, maize and cotton mix with rain-fed and pocket-irrigated land.
🌾 Hill and plateau farming (Alirajpur, Jobat, Sondwa)
The DCMSME district industrial profile (2010-11 data) calls mango the main farm produce and says the Alirajpur trading yard is the largest in the state for mango (DCMSME district industrial profile); it gives no crop areas, irrigation or rainfall. The 2013 CGWB booklet for undivided Jhabua gives alluvium, black cotton soil and sandy soil, with soybean, gram, maize, wheat, jowar, rice, urad, cotton and groundnut as principal crops (CGWB profile); it predates the 2008 split and does not list Alirajpur as a block. A July 2026 report from neighbouring Kukshi in Dhar names cotton, soybean, maize and green chillies as the area’s farm produce (Free Press Journal, July 2026). Live mandi prices were not opened.
- Mango
- Soybean
- Maize
- Cotton
- Gram
- Wheat
🌊 Rivers and terrain
The portal places the district on the Vindhyan range north of the Narmada and on the south-western edge of the Malwa plateau (Alirajpur portal). It names no streams other than the Narmada. We found no sourced flood or erosion record, so ask the seller about stream crossings and slope on any hill parcel. The DCMSME profile (2010-11 data) records 52,423 ha of forest land (sal, bamboo, mahua among the species) and no major minerals, only muram, stone and sand (DCMSME district industrial profile); ask for forest and mining-lease status of any hill parcel.
- Vindhyan range
- Narmada
- Hilly terrain
🧭 Boundary and records
The district was formed from Jhabua in 2008, so documents older than that describe Jhabua, and the CGWB booklet used here covers the larger district (Alirajpur portal). Ask for the current tehsil and revenue circle of any khasra, and confirm whether it falls in one of the five tehsils.
- Jhabua split
- 2008
- Tehsil check
💧 Water & rainfall
The only groundwater profile we could read is the 2013 CGWB booklet for undivided Jhabua (data to 31 March 2013), which gives average annual rainfall of 855.5 mm and a district stage of development of 46%, with every block listed as Safe. Pre-monsoon depth to water in May 2012 ran from 3.45 to 14.95 m below ground. It lists 22,882 dug wells irrigating about 22,100 hectares, 1,924 tube and bore wells irrigating about 1,700 hectares and canals about 9,800 hectares (CGWB profile). Its block table covers six blocks and does not include Alirajpur, so none of this is an Alirajpur reading. The 2024 assessment puts Madhya Pradesh as a whole at 58.40% extraction, in its Safe range (CGWB, GWRA-2024). Check borewell yield on the ground.
📐 Measurement units
Land in Madhya Pradesh is recorded by survey number, with area in hectares in court orders and acres in the Ceiling Act figures; one hectare is about 2.47 acres (our arithmetic). Local units vary by district and tehsil and no revenue manual was opened for them, so convert every quote to acres or hectares and ask the Patwari what the khasra records before comparing two offers. Live mandi prices are on the state and national mandi portals (not opened for this page); crop income is modest next to land values, so price a parcel on location and permitted use.
At a glance
Alirajpur vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Estimated land price* (per acre) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Alirajpur — road-side land near tehsil towns | ₹6–20 lakh* | Estimated by analogy; no guideline figure found |
| Alirajpur — hilly interior (Sondwa, Kattiwada, Bhabhra) | ₹2–8 lakh* | Estimated; wide for tribal-held land |
| Dhar — interior tehsils | ₹6–20 lakh* | Estimated; see the Dhar page |
| Khargone — Khargone, Bhikangaon and interior | ₹6–20 lakh* | Estimated; see the Khargone page |
*Indicative only, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. Check the guideline or ready-reckoner rate with the Sub-Registrar. See the Dhar page and the Khargone page for other Scheduled-Area belts in the western Madhya Pradesh tribal region.
Kukshi tehsil in neighbouring Dhar is reported to lack direct rail access too and to be asking for four-lane links to Gujarat (Free Press Journal, July 2026), so Alirajpur’s rail and road gap is a regional feature of the tribal belt rather than unique to it.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Alirajpur
Five reasoned points, with an honest note that the price evidence is thin and the tribal-land rules decide most deals.
Low entry price, narrow buyer pool
Hilly interior land sits at the low end of the state’s bands in our estimates, but the tribal-land permission rule limits who can legally buy, so a low price does not mean an easy exit.
Border position
The district borders Gujarat and Maharashtra per the portal, with Dahod 75 km and Vadodara airport 170 km away. That is reach into a second state, not a nearby city market.
A 2008 district
The split from Jhabua makes older records and maps unreliable and rewards a buyer who checks the current tehsil for each village.
Water is not the first constraint
The older Jhabua booklet shows 46% groundwater development with all blocks Safe, a better starting point than the over-exploited Malwa plateau. It is not an Alirajpur reading, so test the borewell.
Rail and expressway optionality
The Khandwa–Alirajpur line awaits approval of its project report, a wider line to Dahod is at survey stage and the expressway runs through neighbouring Jhabua. This desk reads all three as optionality, not a reason to pay a premium.
Confirm tribal-land status, ceiling proceedings, diversion and groundwater directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review. *Indicative only, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. Check the guideline or ready-reckoner rate with the Sub-Registrar.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Alirajpur
Read these before shortlisting in Alirajpur specifically.
Tribal-land permission
A sale by a tribal landholder without Collector-rank written permission is exposed (Supreme Court, April 2025), and inside a notified area the bar is absolute. A Will needs the same permission (High Court, February 2025).
Scheduled Area status unconfirmed
The 2003 Order lists Jhabua in full and Alirajpur was carved out in 2008. We did not find the post-2008 notification, so confirm with the gazette and the Collector.
Records from before 2008
Older documents place these villages in Jhabua. Ask for the village’s current tehsil and Sub-Registrar office.
Diversion and premium
Change of use can bring reassessment and a premium (Supreme Court, August 2008). We could not read the current procedure under sections 172 and 190, so ask for the diversion order and the premium receipt.
Ceiling-surplus land
Holdings above the ceiling can be declared surplus (Supreme Court, January 2021). Ask whether proceedings were ever opened on the seller’s family.
A reported, not official, duty rate
The 7.5% duty and 3% fee come from a March 2026 press report. Ask the Sub-Registrar for the current schedule.
Estimated, not registered, prices*
The land-price bands here are indicative estimates, not registered deals. Collect registered comparables from the same revenue estate before negotiating.
No named project inside the district
The rail lines are at survey or report stage with no reported sanction and the expressway is in a neighbouring district. Price on today’s access.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & forest offices
Mutation and revenue-record matters go through the Tehsildar of the relevant tehsil and the village Patwari; permission to sell tribal-held land comes from a revenue officer of Collector rank or above, and the Supreme Court accepted in 2025 that an Additional Collector can act under a work-allocation order (Supreme Court, April 2025). The District Collector’s office is on the Alirajpur district portal. The portal names five tehsils, each with a Tehsildar and village Patwaris. Because the district was formed from Jhabua in 2008, confirm which Sub-Registrar covers the village. Where land is tribal-held, the permission file sits with the Collector’s office. Sale deeds are registered with the Sub-Registrar under the Registration Department, also online through Sampada 2.0 (The Statesman, October 2024). For forest-edge or reserved-forest boundaries, ask the Divisional Forest Officer’s office. We could not open the MP Bhulekh, Registration Department or India Code pages, so check them directly.
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COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Alirajpur.
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Can an outsider buy agricultural land in Alirajpur?
Alirajpur is a majority-tribal district, and the 2003 Scheduled Areas Order lists Jhabua, from which it was carved, in full. Inside a notified area the bar on sale of tribal land to a non-tribal is absolute; outside one, Collector-rank written permission is needed (Supreme Court, April 2025). We did not find a post-2008 notification, so confirm status with the Collector. NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land (RBI Master Direction).
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What does agricultural land cost in Alirajpur?
We found no official per-acre figure. Our indicative estimate* is about ₹6–20 lakh per acre for road-side land near Alirajpur and Jobat, ₹5–15 lakh for irrigated plain pockets and ₹2–8 lakh for hilly interior, with wide margins. *Indicative only, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. Check the guideline or ready-reckoner rate with the Sub-Registrar.
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What stamp duty applies to land in Alirajpur?
Dainik Jagran English reported in March 2026 stamp duty of 7.5% and a registration charge of 3%, about 10.5% together, on the higher of market value or transaction value. We could not open the Registration Department page, so confirm the rate with the Sub-Registrar. A short-stamped deed attracts a penalty of 1% a month on the shortfall (TeamLease RegTech, December 2025).
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Which tehsils are in Alirajpur district?
The district portal names five tehsils: Alirajpur, Jobat, Sondwa, Kattiwada and Chandra Shekhar Azad Nagar (Bhabhra). The district was formed from Jhabua on 17 May 2008, so older records may name Jhabua; confirm the current tehsil of any village.
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Sources and references
Law and courts
- State of Madhya Pradesh v. Dinesh Kumar, 2025 INSC 470, Supreme Court, 8 Apr 2025: tribal land sale outside a notified area, section 165(6)
- Dinesh Kumar v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Misc. Petition 3679 of 2021, MP High Court (Indore), 3 Oct 2023: section 165(6) permission, Ratlam
- Second Appeal 2837 of 2022, MP High Court (Jabalpur), 17 Feb 2025: a Will of tribal land to a non-tribal and section 165(6)
- Bherulal v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Writ Petition 26410 of 2022, MP High Court (Indore), 14 Oct 2024: section 165(6) and urban Nazul or Abadi land
- Garvit Khandelwal v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Writ Appeal 200 of 2021, MP High Court (Indore), 15 Jun 2022: record corrections on diverted land
- Civil Appeals 7732-7733 of 2004, Supreme Court, 26 Aug 2008: reassessment and premium on diversion, section 59
- Pooran Singh v. Dhaniram, Civil Appeal 3122 of 2019, Supreme Court, 14 Mar 2019: section 170B and tribal land sold to a non-tribal
- Bajranga v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Civil Appeal 6209 of 2010, Supreme Court, 19 Jan 2021: Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960
- The Scheduled Areas (States of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh) Order, 2003, G.S.R. 114(E), 20 Feb 2003, Indian Kanoon copy
Government
- Master Direction FED 12/2015-16 on immovable assets under FEMA 1999, Reserve Bank of India, updated to 1 Sep 2022
- Madhya Pradesh state profile (area, districts, population), State Level Bankers Committee Madhya Pradesh
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Madhya Pradesh, assessment 2024, Central Ground Water Board
- Ground water information booklet, Jhabua district (pre-split), Central Ground Water Board (2013; data to March 2013)
- Alirajpur district home page (area, population, villages, creation), Alirajpur district portal
- About the district (tehsils, terrain, tribal population), Alirajpur district portal
- How to reach Alirajpur (road, rail, air), Alirajpur district portal
- District industrial profile, Alirajpur (2010-11 data), Office of the Development Commissioner (MSME)
News
- Madhya Pradesh guideline rate hike proposed for 2026-27, stamp duty and registration charges, Dainik Jagran English, 27 Mar 2026
- Bhopal: 12% guideline rate hike proposed, Dainik Jagran English, 25 Mar 2026
- Land costlier in 18,000 locations, new collector guidelines from 1 April 2023, Free Press Journal, 27 Mar 2023
- MP CM launches online portal for e-registry (Sampada 2.0), The Statesman, Oct 2024
- Indian Stamp (Madhya Pradesh Second Amendment) Act, 2025, notified 17 Dec 2025, TeamLease RegTech
- Delhi-Mumbai Expressway 244 km Madhya Pradesh section, NHAI toll bid, Swarajya, 23 Aug 2023
- Gadkari on Delhi-Mumbai Expressway completion, Business Today, 9 Jul 2026
- Kukshi awaits rail link, four-lane roads as tribal region pushes for connectivity, Free Press Journal, 27 Jul 2026
- Railways takes steps to provide direct connectivity in tribal dominated areas, ETV Bharat, 26 Jul 2025
Further reading
- Ramendra Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Supreme Court, 23 Jan 1984: family and ceiling area, sections 2(gg), 6 and 7
- Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 (section 5 and section 7 text), Legitquest legal database
- Indian Stamp (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Act, 2022 (Act 17 of 2022), Legitquest legal database
- No bar on tribal land sale outside notified area, Supreme Court, Lawyer E-News, 11 Apr 2025
- Collector guideline rate hike at 621 locations in Bhopal district, Free Press Journal, 22 Feb 2026
- Madhya Pradesh plans Narmada Pragati Path to link Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, Free Press Journal, 2 Aug 2026
- Formation of new districts, The Hitavada, 2 Sep 2024
Data-currency note: the CGWB booklet is from 2013 and covers undivided Jhabua; the district portal figures carry no Census year; the Dahod rail statement is undated; infrastructure statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly; the stamp duty is a press-reported figure. The DCMSME profile is an older edition (2010-11 data) written when the district had three tehsils; the rail items are proposals. Land-price bands marked with an asterisk are indicative estimates, not valuations. The MP Bhulekh portal, the Registration Department site, India Code and the Land Revenue Code text could not be opened, so nothing is attributed to a reading of them. This is a general guide, not legal advice. Report inaccuracies to wiki@farmlandindia.com.
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