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District guide
Buying Land in Betul
A Satpura plateau district of black-soil plains and forest edges: scheduled tehsils, tiger-reserve influence, two road projects sanctioned but unbuilt, and indicative land-price bands only.
10,043 sq km
Area (CGWB profile)
15.75 lakh
Population (Census 2011)
₹3–35 lakh per acre
Estimated land price*
22 km, ₹758 crore
NH-46 Betul–Baretha Ghat
*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 — Betul
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Madhya Pradesh
Sub-divisions
8 tehsils and 10 blocks in the CGWB 2013 profile; the ten block names are Amla, Athner, Betul, Bhainsdehi, Bhimpur, Chicholi, Ghoradongri, Multai, Pathakheda (listed as P. Pattan) and Shahpur (CGWB profile, 2013). The district portal names Multai and Bhainsdehi but gives no full list
Key markets
Betul · Amla · Multai · Bhainsdehi · Shahpur
Demand anchors
Itarsi–Betul–Nagpur rail line · NH-46 four-lane (22 km) sanctioned April 2026 · Betul–Khandwa four-lane approved, September 2026 · Satpura forest and Tawa valley
Rail
Betul station (BZU), West Central Railway, on the Itarsi–Betul–Nagpur branch line (Betul portal, October 2026)
Size and population
10,043 sq km (10,059.48 in the text of the same profile) · 15,75,247 people (Census 2011) · 1,409 villages (CGWB profile, 2013)
Estimated land price*
₹3–35 lakh per acre* (wide band: forest-edge tehsils to road-side near Betul and Amla). *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.
Betul — 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
Betul — district-specific notes
The Madhya Pradesh state page applies to Betul 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 National Tiger Conservation Authority brief notes; the Land Revenue Code, India Code and the MP Bhulekh portal could not be opened.
⚠ Part of Betul is a Scheduled Area. A legal-database copy of the Scheduled Areas Order, 2003 (G.S.R. 114(E), 20 February 2003) lists Betul tahsil excluding Betul Development Block, and Bhainsdehi and Shahpur tahsils (Scheduled Areas Order, 2003 (legal-database copy)). Inside a notified area the bar on sale of tribal land to a non-tribal is absolute. 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 copy against the gazette, so ask the Collector’s office whether the village is notified.
⚠ Betul forest land touches the Satpura Tiger Reserve system. The National Tiger Conservation Authority’s brief note gives the reserve 1,339.26 sq km of core and 794.04 sq km of buffer, lists Betul among the forest divisions of the wider tiger habitat (not as part of the reserve itself) and describes conflict in the buffer villages as frequent (NTCA brief note, Satpura). Dainik Jagran English placed the Betul to Baretha Ghat road in the reserve’s influence zone (Dainik Jagran English, April 2026). We did not open the notification maps, so ask the Forest Department in writing whether a parcel is in the core, the buffer or the eco-sensitive belt.
⚠ 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.
- Scheduled tehsils
- Section 165(6) tribal land
- Satpura Tiger Reserve
- Ceiling Act 1960
District overview
Betul — a Satpura plateau district with scheduled tehsils, forest edges and two road projects approved
Betul is a large Satpura district of 10,043 sq km and 15,75,247 people at the 2011 Census, with 1,409 villages and 8 tehsils (CGWB profile, 2013). The district portal calls it the origin of the Tapti, places the Narmada valley to the north and the Tawa valley on the Satpura range, and notes teak forest on the Tawa side (Betul portal). Betul station is on the Itarsi–Betul–Nagpur branch line, about 178 km from Bhopal and 173 km from Nagpur by the portal’s figures (same portal).
We found no official per-acre figure for Betul. The estimated bands on this page, marked with an asterisk, are our indicative ranges derived by analogy with comparable Satpura and Mahakoshal districts and kept wide: forest-edge tehsils sit well below the road-side land around Betul and Amla. The state-level guideline-rate items we could source are statewide (Free Press Journal, March 2023; Dainik Jagran English, 25 March 2026). A guideline rate is a registration floor, not a market price.
Two road projects are in the news. NH-46 between Betul and Baretha Ghat, 22 km and ₹758 crore, was reported sanctioned in April 2026 with bidding yet to start (Dainik Jagran English, April 2026), and a Betul–Khandwa four-lane on NH-347B was reported approved in September 2026 (Construction World, September 2026). Neither is built, and the first runs through tiger-corridor forest.
- Betul
- Amla
- Multai
- Bhainsdehi
- Shahpur
- Satpura Tiger Reserve
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Betul
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). Betul-specific schedules, if any, were not found.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Betul
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.
Betul, Amla and Multai: black-soil irrigated belt
Estimated ₹8–25 lakh per acre*
Black cotton soil covers the southern, central and eastern parts of the district, with wheat, rice, jowar, maize and sugarcane as principal crops and about 1,15,900 hectares irrigated (CGWB profile, 2013). The band is derived by analogy with comparable plateau farm land.
Check: whether the parcel is in a notified tehsil and whether irrigation is canal, dug well or borewell.
Road-side land near Betul town and Amla
Estimated ₹15–35 lakh per acre*
Betul station is on the Itarsi–Betul–Nagpur line and the town is on the national highway to Nagpur (Betul portal). The 22 km NH-46 four-lane and the Betul–Khandwa upgrade are reported but not built (Dainik Jagran English, April 2026; Construction World, September 2026), so the band prices today’s access with only a modest premium.
Check: the road line and whether acquisition notices cover the parcel; ask NHAI before paying a premium.
Bhainsdehi, Shahpur and Ghoradongri: forest-edge tehsils
Estimated ₹3–10 lakh per acre*
Bhainsdehi and Shahpur are listed Scheduled tehsils in the legal-database copy of the 2003 Order (Scheduled Areas Order, 2003 (legal-database copy)), and the Satpura reserve buffer has frequent conflict (NTCA brief note, Satpura). Notified status, forest cover and distance from a market hold the estimate down.
Check: tribal status of the seller, notified-area status and buffer or eco-sensitive status in writing.
Guideline rates
No Betul 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 Betul (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 Betul 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 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. Government-announced timelines are not guaranteed; the two road items rest on one report each.
01Open or operating
02In progress or pending
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Betul
A Satpura plateau district of black cotton soil in the plains and teak forest on the Tawa side.
🌾 Black-soil plains (Betul, Amla, Multai)
The CGWB profile says black cotton soil covers the southern, central and eastern parts of the district, with wheat, rice, jowar, maize and sugarcane as principal crops (CGWB profile). The profile is from 2013, so treat acreages as dated.
- Wheat
- Rice
- Jowar
- Maize
- Sugarcane
⛰️ Satpura and Tawa valley
The portal places the district in the Satpura range, with its highest peak at 1,107 m, and says the land at the edge of the Tawa valley is fertile and carries valuable trees including teak (Betul portal). Forest status and tiger-reserve buffer status decide what can be done here, so legal status matters more than soil.
- Satpura
- Tawa valley
- Teak
- Forest edge
🌊 Tapti origin
The portal calls Betul the origin of the Tapti river and places the Narmada valley to the north (Betul portal). We found no sourced flood record for Betul, so ask the seller for flood history on low parcels near streams.
- Tapti
- Narmada valley
💧 Water & rainfall
The CGWB profile (2013, data to March 2013) gives normal rainfall of 1,129.6 mm and a district stage of groundwater development of 47%, with block stages from 19% (Ghoradongri) to 70% (Betul) and every block marked Safe in its table, although one section calls the non-command area of Betul block semi-critical, so the profile contradicts itself (CGWB profile). It lists 53,150 dug wells irrigating about 71,600 hectares, 3,427 tube and bore wells about 12,600 hectares and 92 canals about 18,900 hectares, with a net irrigated area of about 1,15,900 hectares. Pre-monsoon depth to water in 2012 ran from 2.0 to 16.40 m below ground. 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 Betul’s blocks, so check the current category for any borewell-dependent parcel.
📐 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
Betul vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Estimated land price* (per acre) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Betul — black-soil irrigated belt | ₹8–25 lakh* | Estimated by analogy; no guideline figure found |
| Betul — road-side near Betul town and Amla | ₹15–35 lakh* | Estimated; two road projects reported, not built |
| Betul — forest-edge scheduled tehsils | ₹3–10 lakh* | Estimated; notified-area and buffer checks |
| Seoni — Pench and canal belt | ₹3–25 lakh* | Estimated; see the Seoni page |
| Shajapur — Malwa black soil | ₹8–60 lakh* | Estimated; see the Shajapur 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 Seoni page for the other Satpura-side district with scheduled tehsils and a tiger reserve, and the Shajapur page for a Malwa farm district.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Betul
Five reasoned points, with an honest note that the price evidence is thin and both road projects are still on paper.
A rail town with two road projects
Betul is on the Itarsi–Betul–Nagpur line, and NH-46 and NH-347B upgrades are reported. Price on the roads you can drive today, since neither project is built.
Wide gap between plains and forest edge
Black-soil irrigated land and forest-edge tehsils behave like different markets. The estimated bands here are far apart for that reason.
Safe groundwater on paper
The older profile marks every block Safe and the stage at 47%, well below Shajapur. A borewell is still worth testing, because the profile contradicts itself for Betul block.
Legal checks decide the deal
Scheduled tehsils, tiger-reserve buffer and forest status can stop a sale or a farmhouse. A buyer who holds the written answers is better placed than one relying on a broker summary.
Corridor tied to tiger movement
The NH-46 stretch sits in a tiger-movement zone, which can shape design and timing. Treat the project as pending and not as delivered.
Confirm tribal-land status, notified-area status, buffer 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 Betul
Read these before shortlisting in Betul specifically.
Scheduled tehsils
Betul tahsil (excluding the Betul block), Bhainsdehi and Shahpur are listed in a legal-database copy of the 2003 Order; the sale bar on tribal land to non-tribals is absolute in notified areas. Ask the Collector’s office.
Tiger reserve buffer and forest cover
The Satpura reserve buffer has frequent human-wildlife conflict, and Betul forest division is part of the wider tiger habitat. Ask the Forest Department about core, buffer and eco-sensitive status in writing.
Tribal-land permission
A sale 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.
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.
Announced is not delivered
NH-46 was only sanctioned in April 2026 with bidding to come, and the Betul–Khandwa road had not advanced in September 2026. 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). Whether a village is a notified Scheduled-Area village is answered by the District Collector’s office; the Betul district portal did not give a full tehsil list when we read it. Tiger-reserve, buffer and 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 Betul.
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Can an outsider buy agricultural land in Betul?
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 Betul-specific order. Betul tahsil excluding Betul block, Bhainsdehi and Shahpur are listed as Scheduled in a legal-database copy of the 2003 Order, where sale of tribal land to a non-tribal is barred. NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land under the RBI Master Direction.
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What does agricultural land cost in Betul?
We found no official per-acre figure. Our indicative estimate* is about ₹8–25 lakh per acre for the black-soil irrigated belt, ₹15–35 lakh for road-side land near Betul and Amla, and ₹3–10 lakh for forest-edge 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 Betul?
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 road projects affect Betul?
Dainik Jagran English reported in April 2026 a sanctioned 22 km, ₹758 crore four-lane on NH-46 between Betul and Baretha Ghat with bidding to come, and Construction World reported in September 2026 an approved Betul–Khandwa four-lane on NH-347B. Neither had advanced to construction when reported.
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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, Betul district, Central Ground Water Board (2013; data to March 2013)
- About Betul district (Satpura, Tapti, Tawa valley), Betul district portal
- How to reach Betul (road, rail, air), Betul district portal
- Brief note on Satpura Tiger Reserve, National Tiger Conservation Authority
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
- Betul-Baretha Ghat Tiger Corridor: NH-46 four-lane approved, Dainik Jagran English, 5 Apr 2026
- Betul-Khandwa expressway to cut Indore-Nagpur travel time, Construction World, 11 Sep 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
- 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
- State-wise details of notified Fifth Schedule Areas, Ministry of Panchayati Raj
- Brief note on Pench Tiger Reserve (Madhya Pradesh), National Tiger Conservation Authority
Data-currency note: the CGWB profile is from 2013 and the Scheduled Areas text is a legal-database copy of the 2003 Order; the district portal gives no area or population; infrastructure statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly; the stamp duty is a press-reported figure. Land-price bands marked with an asterisk are indicative estimates, not valuations. The MP Bhulekh portal, the Registration Department site, India Code, the Land Revenue Code text and the root pages of the district portal 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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