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District guide
Buying Land in Ashok Nagar
A river-bounded farm district between the Sindh and Betwa: Safe groundwater on paper, no sourced corridor project, and indicative land-price bands only.
4,674 sq km
Area (CGWB profile)
8.45 lakh
Population (Census 2011)
₹4–30 lakh per acre
Estimated land price*
~1,15,600 ha
Irrigated area (CGWB 2013)
*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 — Ashok Nagar
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Madhya Pradesh
Sub-divisions
5 tehsils and 4 blocks (Ashoknagar, Chanderi, Isagarh, Mungawali) and 907 villages in the CGWB 2013 profile (CGWB profile, 2013). The district portal gave no tehsil list
Key markets
Ashok Nagar · Chanderi · Isagarh · Mungawali
Demand anchors
Sindh and Betwa river belt · canal irrigation of about 10,641 ha · Sampada 2.0 e-registration
Rail
Not established: the district portal’s how-to-reach page refused automated access, so no station or line is named here
Size and population
4,673.94 sq km · 8,45,071 people (Census 2011) · 907 villages (CGWB profile, 2013)
Estimated land price*
₹4–30 lakh per acre* (wide band: drier Chanderi and Mungawali land to road-side land near Ashok Nagar and Isagarh). *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.
Ashok Nagar — 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
Ashok Nagar — district-specific notes
The Madhya Pradesh state page applies to Ashok Nagar in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page. Law was read from court orders, a legal-database copy of the Scheduled Areas Order and the 2013 CGWB profile; the Land Revenue Code, India Code and the MP Bhulekh portal could not be opened.
⚠ The legal-database copy of the Scheduled Areas Order, 2003 (G.S.R. 114(E), 20 February 2003) has no Ashok Nagar entry, so no tehsil here shows as a notified Scheduled Area in that copy (Scheduled Areas Order, 2003 (legal-database copy)). The tribal-land rules still apply to any seller who belongs to a covered tribe. 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 to sell land outside a notified area, and inside a notified area the bar on sale to a non-tribal is absolute (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). We have not checked the Scheduled Areas copy against the gazette, so ask the Collector’s office whether the village is notified.
⚠ The 2013 CGWB profile lists no tiger reserve, national park or sanctuary for Ashok Nagar and gives 52.8 thousand ha of forest. We read no forest-division map or eco-sensitive notification, so ask the Forest Department in writing whether a parcel near forest, a river or a protected monument is restricted.
⚠ 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.
⚠ 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
- Ceiling Act 1960
- Diversion (s.172 and s.59)
- NRI bar
District overview
Ashok Nagar — a river-bounded farm district on the Malwa and Bundelkhand edge, with no sourced corridor project yet
Ashok Nagar is a Bundelkhand-edge district of 4,673.94 sq km and 8,45,071 people at the 2011 Census (691,387 rural and 153,684 urban), with 5 tehsils and 907 villages (CGWB profile, 2013). The Sindh river forms the western boundary and the Betwa the eastern, and the district portal describes the area as the northern Malwa plateau with the main part on the Bundelkhand plateau (Ashok Nagar portal). The portal’s how-to-reach page and its tehsil details could not be opened by us, so distances to Bhopal or the rail network are not stated.
We found no official per-acre figure for Ashok Nagar. The estimated bands on this page, marked with an asterisk, are indicative ranges derived by analogy with comparable Malwa-edge and Bundelkhand districts and kept wide. A guideline rate is a registration floor, not a market price, and the statewide revisions we could source do not name this district (Free Press Journal, March 2023).
About 1,15,600 ha of the 3,07,100 ha net sown area is irrigated, largely from tube wells and dug wells with 22 canals adding about 10,641 ha, so a large rain-fed share remains (CGWB profile, 2013). The ICAR-CRIDA district plan (2012) lists soybean (about 99,100 ha) and urad in kharif and gram (126,500 ha) and wheat (122,000 ha) in rabi, with a cropping intensity of 140% and about 1.92 lakh ha rain-fed (ICAR-CRIDA, 2012). No road, rail or airport project for Ashok Nagar could be sourced for this page, so the bands price today’s access only.
- Ashok Nagar
- Chanderi
- Isagarh
- Mungawali
- Sindh river
- Betwa river
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Ashok Nagar
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). Ashok Nagar-specific schedules, if any, were not found.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Ashok Nagar
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.
Ashok Nagar and Isagarh: irrigated black-soil belt
Estimated ₹8–20 lakh per acre*
Black cotton and sandy-loam soils dominate, tube wells irrigate about 48,175 ha and dug wells about 18,365 ha (CGWB profile, 2013). The band is derived by analogy with comparable plateau farm land.
Check: whether the parcel has a working borewell or dug well and a recorded irrigation source.
Road-side land near Ashok Nagar town and Isagarh
Estimated ₹12–30 lakh per acre*
No road project for this district could be sourced, so the premium reflects existing highway frontage only and is kept modest. The band is an analogy-based estimate.
Check: the access road in the revenue record and any acquisition notice before paying for frontage.
Chanderi and Mungawali: drier outer tehsils
Estimated ₹4–12 lakh per acre*
Chanderi has the highest block stage of groundwater development in the district at 54% and Mungawali the lowest at 33%, all Safe in the 2013 table; a large rain-fed share and distance from a market hold the band down (CGWB profile, 2013).
Check: water depth in a test, and soil type (stony bhatori patches are mentioned in the profile).
Guideline rates
No Ashok Nagar figure found
Statewide, rates were revised at about 18,000 locations from 1 April 2023 (Free Press Journal, March 2023). The 2026-27 proposal reported for Bhopal does not cover Ashok Nagar (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 Ashok Nagar connects — road, rail and air
The district portal’s how-to-reach page refused automated access, so no distances are given. Check them with the Collector’s office or the railway enquiry system.
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. Full rules: Madhya Pradesh land laws.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Two existing services are listed; no pending road, rail or airport project placed in Ashok Nagar was found.
02Open or operating
01In progress or pending
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Ashok Nagar
A black-soil and sandy-loam district between the Sindh and Betwa, with tube-well irrigation and a large rain-fed share.
🌾 Black-soil and sandy-loam plains
The CGWB profile names black cotton and sandy-loam soils, with brown and stony (bhatori) patches (CGWB profile), while the ICAR-CRIDA plan for the district (2012) classes about 58% of the area as shallow soil, 37% deep and 5% medium-deep, so depth varies parcel to parcel (ICAR-CRIDA, 2012). CRIDA lists soybean (about 99,100 ha), urad (58,800 ha) and maize (9,700 ha) in kharif and gram (126,500 ha), wheat (122,000 ha), lentil (35,000 ha) and mustard (7,500 ha) in rabi, on 3,07,100 ha net sown with a cropping intensity of 140% and 1,91,500 ha rain-fed; horticulture is small (orange about 1,040 ha, coriander 2,310 ha). Drought and December–January frost are listed as regular risks, and girdle beetle and semilooper as soybean pests. The district’s Krishi Vigyan Kendra sits in the Krishi Upaj Mandi premises at Ashoknagar, which points to a regulated mandi yard there; we did not read arrivals or prices.
- Soybean
- Gram
- Wheat
- Urad
- Shallow soils
🌊 Sindh, Betwa, Kethan and Orr
The Sindh forms the western boundary and the Betwa the eastern, with the Kethan and Orr flowing within the district, all running generally north in the Yamuna system (CGWB profile, 2013). We found no sourced flood record, so ask the seller for flood history on low parcels near streams.
- Sindh
- Betwa
- Kethan
- Orr
🌳 Forest
The profile gives 52.8 thousand ha of forest (CGWB profile, 2013). Forest status of a parcel is a legal question, so ask the Forest Department rather than assume from a map.
- Forest land
- Revenue vs forest records
💧 Water & rainfall
The CGWB profile (2013) gives normal rainfall of 927.1 mm over 38 rainy days, with about 91.5% in the southwest monsoon. Block stages of groundwater development in its table are Ashoknagar 40%, Chanderi 54%, Isagarh 43% and Mungawali 33%, district 42%, all Safe, although section 4.4 of the same profile says 48% (the profile contradicts itself). Pre-monsoon depth to water in 2012 ran from 2.34 to 17.40 m below ground, mostly 4 to 16 m (CGWB profile). The 2024 assessment puts Madhya Pradesh as a whole at 58.40% extraction, in its Safe range (CGWB, GWRA-2024); we did not read a 2024 category for Ashok Nagar’s blocks, so check the current category for any borewell-dependent parcel. The ICAR-CRIDA plan puts annual rainfall at 882 mm over 38 rainy days (772 mm in the south-west monsoon), lower than the 927.1 mm in the CGWB profile; both are dated, so use them as a range (ICAR-CRIDA, 2012).
📐 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); price a parcel on location, legal status and permitted use, not on crop income.
At a glance
Ashok Nagar vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Estimated land price* (per acre) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ashok Nagar — irrigated black-soil belt | ₹8–20 lakh* | Estimated by analogy; no guideline figure found |
| Ashok Nagar — road-side near town and Isagarh | ₹12–30 lakh* | Estimated; no road project sourced |
| Ashok Nagar — Chanderi and Mungawali | ₹4–12 lakh* | Estimated; drier outer tehsils |
| Vidisha | See the Vidisha page | Own estimate on its page |
| Sagar | See the Sagar page | Own estimate on its 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 Vidisha page and the Sagar page for neighbouring districts on the Malwa and Bundelkhand edge.
The ICAR-CRIDA plan places Ashok Nagar in the same Gird agro-climatic zone as Guna and Shivpuri, so crop mix and rainfall are comparable with those neighbours; no corridor project separates the three on the evidence we found.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Ashok Nagar
Four reasoned points, with an honest note that no corridor project was sourced and the price evidence is thin.
Irrigated plains with Safe groundwater on paper
Every block is Safe in the 2013 table, with a district stage of 42%. A borewell is still worth testing, because the profile also quotes 48%.
Two rivers frame the district
The Sindh and Betwa bound the district to west and east. Low parcels near streams need flood history from the seller.
Not a Scheduled Area in the copy read
Tribal-land permission still applies to a tribal seller, but the absolute notified-area bar does not appear for this district in the copy we read.
Price on today’s access
No road, rail or airport project was sourced for Ashok Nagar, so the bands carry no corridor premium. A buyer is better placed holding registered comparables than a broker summary.
Confirm tribal-land status, forest status and diversion 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 Ashok Nagar
Read these before shortlisting in Ashok Nagar specifically.
Tribal-land permission
A sale by a tribal holder without Collector-rank written permission is exposed (Supreme Court, April 2025), and a Will needs the same permission (High Court, February 2025).
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.
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.
Large rain-fed share
About 1,91,500 ha of the 3,07,100 ha net sown area was rain-fed in the 2013 profile, so irrigation source decides value.
Dated groundwater data
The profile base year is 2011 and it quotes two different district stages. Check the current category for the block.
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 sourced access projects
We found no road, rail or airport project for the district in the district portal pages that opened, the January 2026 Cabinet list or news searches, so do not pay for a corridor that cannot be sourced.
Drought and frost exposure
The ICAR-CRIDA plan lists drought as a regular risk, frost in December–January and about 1.92 lakh ha of rain-fed land, so income from unirrigated parcels swings with the monsoon.
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). Whether a village is a notified Scheduled-Area village is answered by the District Collector’s office; the Ashok Nagar district portal gave no tehsil list when we read it. Forest questions go to the Forest Department. Sale deeds are registered with the Sub-Registrar under the Registration Department, also online through Sampada 2.0 (The Statesman, October 2024). 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 Ashok Nagar.
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Can an outsider buy agricultural land in Ashok Nagar?
None of the court orders or Act texts opened for the Madhya Pradesh page bars a buyer for not being a farmer, and we read no Ashok Nagar-specific order. No Ashok Nagar tehsil appears in a legal-database copy of the 2003 Scheduled Areas Order, but sale by a tribal seller still needs Collector-rank permission. NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land under the RBI Master Direction.
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What does agricultural land cost in Ashok Nagar?
We found no official per-acre figure. Our indicative estimate* is about ₹8–20 lakh per acre for the irrigated belt, ₹12–30 lakh for road-side land near Ashok Nagar and Isagarh, and ₹4–12 lakh for drier outer tehsils, 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 Ashok Nagar?
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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How is groundwater in Ashok Nagar?
The 2013 CGWB profile marks all four blocks Safe, with a district stage of development of 42% in its table (48% elsewhere in the text) and pre-monsoon depth to water mostly 4 to 16 m. The data is old, so test any borewell and check the current block category.
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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
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Madhya Pradesh, assessment 2024, Central Ground Water Board
- Ground water information booklet, Ashoknagar district, Central Ground Water Board (2013)
- About Ashoknagar district (location, rivers, physiography), Ashoknagar district portal
- District agriculture contingency plan, Ashoknagar (2012; 2006-08 averages), ICAR-CRIDA
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
- Infra push: Cabinet approves over Rs 30,000 crore, The Hitavada, 7 Jan 2026
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
- Formation of new districts, The Hitavada, 2 Sep 2024
- State-wise details of notified Fifth Schedule Areas, Ministry of Panchayati Raj
- Madhya Pradesh state profile (area, districts, population), State Level Bankers Committee Madhya Pradesh
Data-currency note: the CGWB profile is from 2013 (base year 2011) and the Scheduled Areas text is a legal-database copy of the 2003 Order; the district portal gave no tehsil list, how-to-reach page or population, and its how-to-reach page refused automated access; the stamp duty is a press-reported figure. The ICAR-CRIDA plan figures are from 2012 and 2006-08 averages and differ from the CGWB profile on rainfall and soil; the mandi yard is inferred from the location of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra. 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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