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District guide
Buying Land in Damoh
A black-soil district on the Sonar and Bearma: tiger-reserve, Sagar–Damoh road acquisition and tribal-land checks come before price.
12.64 lakh
Population (district portal)
7,306 sq km
Area (district portal)
₹2–35 lakh/acre
Estimated land price*
₹2,059 crore
Sagar–Damoh four-lane
*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 — Damoh
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Madhya Pradesh
Sub-divisions
The CGWB district profile (2013) lists 7 tehsils or blocks: Damoh, Patharia, Jabera, Tendukheda, Batiyagarh, Hatta and Patera (CGWB Damoh profile). The district portal tehsil page could not be opened (blocked to automated readers), so later tehsil changes were not read. CONFIRM the current list with the Collector’s office.
Key markets
Damoh city · Hatta · Patharia · Jabera · Tendukheda · Batiyagarh
Demand anchors
Sagar–Damoh four-lane (acquisition begun, July 2026) · proposed Vindhya Expressway via Damoh (Feb 2023) · Sonar and Bearma river plains
Rail
Rail services are not sourced for this page; check the Indian Railways timetable for Damoh
Size and population
7,306 sq km, 12,64,219 people and 1,229 villages on the district portal (Damoh district portal); the CGWB profile gives 12,63,703 people and 1,225 villages, so CONFIRM against Census tables
Pricing unit
₹/acre · Estimated land price*: ₹2–35 lakh per acre depending on the micro-area (indicative, see price section)
Local units
Records use survey numbers and hectares; sellers also quote acres and village units whose size can differ by tehsil, so convert to hectares (1 ha is about 2.47 acres)
Land records portal
MP Bhulekh (not opened for this page; check records there)
Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Madhya Pradesh page and apply to every district within it.
Damoh — 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
Damoh — district-specific notes
The Madhya Pradesh state page applies to Damoh in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page. Law was read from Supreme Court and High Court orders and a legal-database copy of the Ceiling Act; the Land Revenue Code text and the Bhulekh portal could not be opened, and the notes say so where it matters.
⚠ Tribal land is the first check in Madhya Pradesh. Under section 165(6) of the Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code, 1959 a member of a tribe the Code treats as aboriginal needs written permission from a revenue officer of at least Collector rank to sell to a non-tribal outside notified areas, and inside notified areas the bar is absolute (Supreme Court, April 2025). Under section 170B a transfer made by fraud can be reverted to the tribal owner or heirs (Supreme Court, March 2019), and a Will of tribal land to a non-tribal also needs the section 165(6) permission (High Court, February 2025). The Scheduled Areas Order of 2003 does not list Damoh in its Madhya Pradesh schedule (gazette reprint), so on our reading the absolute bar inside notified areas should not apply here, but we found no list of tribal holders in the district. Ask the Collector’s office in writing whether the owner is a tribal holder before any deposit.
⚠ A farmhouse or any other non-agricultural use means diversion of the land. A June 2022 High Court order refers to land “diverted under section 172” of the Code, and the Supreme Court has described section 59 as allowing reassessment of land revenue on a change of use, with a premium 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; ask the Sub-Divisional Officer (Revenue) for the diversion order itself and read it in full.
⚠ The Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 caps what a family may hold. In January 2021 the Supreme Court quoted section 7(b) as allowing a family of five or fewer 54 acres (Supreme Court, January 2021), and a legal-database copy of the Act lists 18 acres of two-crop irrigated land, 27 acres of one-crop irrigated land and 54 acres of dry land, with Collector permission needed to transfer land before the final ceiling order (legal database text of the 1960 Act). CONFIRM the current schedule with a lawyer before assembling a large holding in Damoh.
⚠ Tiger-reserve land and road acquisition are the district-specific checks. The Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve was notified on 22 September 2023 across Sagar, Damoh and Narsinghpur, with a core of 1,414 sq km and a buffer of 925.12 sq km (reported) (Drishti IAS, September 2023); we did not find which Damoh villages fall inside the core or buffer, so ask the Forest Department for written status of any parcel near forest. The Sagar–Damoh road is being widened to four lanes on a hybrid annuity model, with 42.25 hectares and more than 200 families affected across the 76.68 km project as reported in July 2026 (Free Press Journal, July 2026); ask the Collector for acquisition notices on the khasra. The CGWB profile reports nitrate above 100 mg/l at Palar village (CGWB Damoh profile).
Read the state-wise land laws guide and the Madhya Pradesh page for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and NRI rules.
- Land Revenue Code 1959
- Section 165(6) tribal land
- Tiger reserve
- Sagar–Damoh acquisition
District overview
Damoh — a Bundelkhand-edge district on the Sonar and Bearma
Damoh lies in the north-east of Madhya Pradesh in Sagar Division, and the district portal gives 7,306 sq km, 12,64,219 people and 1,229 villages; it borders Sagar to the west, Narsinghpur and Jabalpur to the south, Chhatarpur to the north and Panna and Katni to the east (Damoh district portal). The CGWB profile names seven tehsils or blocks and says the Sonar and Bearma drain the district, with the Bewas and Kopra as tributaries of the Sonar (CGWB Damoh profile).
The estimated farm-land price* for Damoh runs from about ₹2 lakh to ₹35 lakh per acre. The upper end applies to land around Damoh city and the Sagar–Damoh road, the middle to the Sonar and Bearma plains, and the lower end to forest-fringe and semi-critical groundwater blocks such as Hatta and Patharia. We found no registered-deed series, guideline-rate report or compensation award for Damoh, so the bands are set by analogy with Sagar and Katni and rounded wide. *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.
Two corridors matter. The Sagar–Damoh four-lane (₹2,059 crore approved in December 2025) reached land acquisition in July 2026 (Free Press Journal, July 2026), and a roughly 660 km Vindhya Expressway from Bhopal to Singrauli via Damoh, Katni, Rewa and Sidhi was announced in February 2023 with no later status found (Outlook India, February 2023). Farming is chickpea, wheat, soybean and paddy on black soils with 1,170 mm of rain; the ICAR-CRIDA plan gives about 1.54 lakh hectares of chickpea and 70,000 of wheat in rabi, and about 56,500 of soybean and 55,500 of rice in kharif (ICAR-CRIDA Damoh plan). The December 2025 Cabinet put ₹2,059 crore into the Sagar–Damoh four-lane and approved a ₹165 crore irrigation project in Tendukheda (The Hitavada, December 2025).
- Damoh
- Hatta
- Patharia
- Jabera
- Sonar
- Sagar–Damoh road
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Damoh
7.5%
Stamp duty (reported)
state-wide figure, reported; Registration Department page not opened
3%
Registration fee (reported)
on the same base; CONFIRM with the Sub-Registrar
~10.5%
Combined, reported arithmetic
earlier report gave 9.5% to 12.5%
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 and that no fresh taxes would be levied (Dainik Jagran English, March 2026); an earlier piece put the combined range at 9.5% to 12.5%. These are state-wide figures as reported, and we could not open the Registration Department’s own fee page, so ask the Damoh Sub-Registrar for the current schedule for agricultural land before you budget. Since 17 December 2025 a short-stamped document attracts a penalty of 1% of the shortfall per month (TeamLease RegTech, December 2025). Registration is online through Sampada 2.0, which also shows guideline rates by location (The Statesman, October 2024). We found no Damoh-specific guideline-rate report.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Damoh
No district-level guideline report was found, so this section gives our indicative price bands* and the water and units points.
Estimated land price*: city and highway belt
₹12–35 lakh per acre* (Damoh city, Sagar road approaches)
Land near Damoh city and along the Sagar–Damoh road, where widening adds non-farm demand and acquisition risk. The band is wide because we hold no registered-deed series; it is set by analogy with Sagar and Katni and rounded. *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.
Check: acquisition notices, diversion status and road access.
Estimated land price*: Sonar and Bearma plains
₹4–12 lakh per acre* (Damoh, Jabera, Batiyagarh, Tendukheda)
Black-soil farm land growing wheat, gram, paddy and soybean. The CGWB profile records 60% stage of extraction and 139 canal structures (CGWB Damoh profile), though its irrigation table units are unclear. *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.
Check: irrigation source and the water test.
Estimated land price*: forest fringe and tight-water blocks
₹2–7 lakh per acre* (Hatta, Patharia, Patera)
Hatta and Patharia are semi-critical for groundwater at 78% and 82% extraction (2008-09 base), and parts of the district lie near the tiger reserve (CGWB Damoh profile; Drishti IAS, September 2023). *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.
Check: forest status, buffer-zone status and well yields.
Groundwater quality
Nitrate 6 to 59 mg/l, 114 at Palar
The CGWB profile gives nitrate of 6 to 59 mg/l with 114 mg/l at Palar, and mostly very hard water; fluoride is within limits at 0.02 to 0.93 mg/l (CGWB Damoh profile). The 2024 state assessment also lists Damoh for nitrate above 45 mg/l.
Check: a water test before buying for drinking or a farmhouse.
Units: hectare, acre and village units
Madhya Pradesh revenue records identify land by survey number (khasra) and area, and court orders in the state describe holdings in hectares (Supreme Court, April 2025). Sellers and brokers also quote acres and village units whose size can differ by district and tehsil. Convert every quote to hectares or acres (one hectare is about 2.47 acres, our arithmetic) and match it to the khasra area; we did not open a revenue manual for local unit definitions.
Connectivity
How Damoh connects — road, rail and air
Road facts come from news reports; no rail or airport source was opened for Damoh.
By road
By air
By rail & metro
We could not open a rail or airport source for Damoh, so those rows say so; the practical test is a drive from the nearest highway to the parcel, so ask for the access road in the revenue record. Full Madhya Pradesh rules are in the state-wise land laws guide.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Items marked CONFIRM have a single or an older source.
00Open or operating
04In progress or pending
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Damoh
Black soils under chickpea, wheat, soybean and paddy, with most farmed land still rainfed and wells carrying the irrigation.
🌾 Black-soil plains (Damoh, Jabera, Batiyagarh, Tendukheda)
The ICAR-CRIDA plan lists chickpea at about 1.54 lakh hectares and wheat at about 70,000 in rabi, with lentil, pea and linseed, and soybean at about 56,500, rice at about 55,500 and blackgram at about 14,900 in kharif (2008-09 areas); deep soils are about 54% of the area, medium about 23% and shallow about 23% (ICAR-CRIDA Damoh plan). The CGWB profile lists medium black soil 1 to 4 m thick, shallow black soil along the Sonar and Bearma, and skeletal soil from sandstone (CGWB Damoh profile).
- Chickpea
- Wheat
- Soybean
- Rice
- Lentil
🏞 Sonar and Bearma basins and irrigation
The Sonar and Bearma drain the district, with the Bewas and Kopra as tributaries of the Sonar (CGWB Damoh profile). The CRIDA plan, which states its units, gives a net irrigated area of about 1.16 lakh hectares against about 1.96 lakh hectares rainfed: bore wells about 25% of irrigated area, open wells about 24%, reservoirs and other sources about 38%, canals (139 schemes) about 12% and tanks under 1% (ICAR-CRIDA Damoh plan). This replaces our earlier note that the CGWB table units were unclear.
- Sonar
- Bearma
- Bore wells
- Canals
- Rainfed
🌳 Forest and tiger reserve
Damoh is one of three districts named in the tiger-reserve notification (Drishti IAS, September 2023), and the CGWB profile gives 2,671 sq km of forest in the district (CGWB Damoh profile). Ask the Forest Department about any parcel near a forest block.
- Forest
- Tiger reserve
💧 Water & rainfall
The CGWB profile gives normal rainfall of 1,170.4 mm (1,173.0 mm in its text), about 90% in June to September, and a stage of extraction of 60% for the district on a 2009 base: Batiyagarh 69%, Damoh 51%, Jabera 36%, Patera 61% and Tendukheda 54% are safe, and Hatta (78%) and Patharia (82%) semi-critical. Pre-monsoon depth to water in May 2012 was 2.62 to 25.00 m (CGWB Damoh profile). The CRIDA plan classes all seven blocks as safe, so the two sources conflict on Hatta and Patharia; check the current category. The 2024 state assessment lists Damoh for nitrate above 45 mg/l (CGWB, Madhya Pradesh 2024). Test water before a farmhouse plan. Live mandi prices are on the state and national mandi portals (not opened for this page).
📐 Measurement units
Madhya Pradesh records use survey numbers and hectares; sellers also quote acres and village units whose size can differ by tehsil. Convert every quote to hectares or acres before comparing two offers (one hectare is about 2.47 acres). Live mandi prices are on Agmarknet (not opened for this page); price a parcel on water, access and permitted use.
At a glance
Damoh vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Price band* (per acre) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Damoh — city and highway belt* | ₹12–35 lakh* | Indicative estimate; not a valuation |
| Damoh — Sonar and Bearma plains* | ₹4–12 lakh* | Indicative estimate; not a valuation |
| Damoh — forest fringe and tight-water blocks* | ₹2–7 lakh* | Indicative estimate; not a valuation |
| Sagar — rural plains* | ₹6–18 lakh* | Indicative estimate; see the Sagar page |
| Katni — rural farm land* | ₹4–12 lakh* | Indicative estimate; see the Katni page |
Sourced facts against Sagar, the district across the Sagar–Damoh road: the December 2025 Cabinet package covers both ends of that road, and Sagar also received a five-year incentive package for the Maswasi Grant industrial area (about ₹24,240 crore of investment and over 29,000 jobs expected, cement units excluded) (The Hitavada, December 2025), while the only Damoh-specific approvals we found are the road widening and the Jhapan Nala irrigation project. See the Sagar 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 Sagar page for the western neighbour and the other end of the four-lane, and the Katni page for the eastern neighbour.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Damoh
Four reasoned points, with an honest note that price evidence is thin and two corridors are still at early stages.
A four-lane to Sagar is in acquisition
Land acquisition for the 76.68 km Sagar–Damoh widening began in July 2026 (Free Press Journal, July 2026). Widening could improve access, but it also means acquisition notices along the road.
A larger expressway is only announced
The Vindhya Expressway via Damoh was announced in February 2023 (Outlook India, February 2023); we found no later report, so it is a possibility, not a schedule.
Black soils and good rainfall
The CGWB profile gives 1,170 mm of normal rainfall and medium black soils (CGWB Damoh profile). Data are dated 2008-2013.
Lower entry prices than Sagar on our estimates*
Our bands* start at ₹2 lakh for tight-water forest-fringe land and ₹4 lakh for ordinary plains. The evidence is by analogy, so verify with registered deeds.
A market that rewards paperwork
Tribal-land, ceiling, diversion, forest and acquisition checks are parcel-specific. A buyer who documents each one is better placed than one relying on a broker summary.
Confirm tribal-land, ceiling, diversion, forest and acquisition status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Damoh
Read these before shortlisting in Damoh specifically.
Road acquisition
The Sagar–Damoh widening has more than 200 families on the project in July 2026 reports. Ask the Collector for acquisition notices on the khasra.
Tiger-reserve boundary
The reserve notification names Damoh. Get written forest status and buffer-zone rules for any parcel near forest.
Tight groundwater in two blocks
Hatta and Patharia are semi-critical on a 2008-09 base. Ask for current well depth and neighbour yields.
Nitrate and hard water
The CGWB profile gives nitrate up to 114 mg/l at Palar and mostly very hard water. Test water.
Tribal-land permission
Section 165(6) permission is needed for a sale by a tribal holder to a non-tribal outside notified areas. We found no list of tribal holders, so ask the Collector in writing.
Ceiling and diversion paper
The Ceiling Act figures come from a legal-database copy and diversion procedure was not read. Ask for the diversion order and any ceiling proceedings in full.
Conflicting population and tehsil data
The portal and CGWB differ on population and villages, and the tehsil list may have changed since 2013. Match the parcel to the current tehsil in the revenue record.
Estimated prices are indicative
The price bands* are estimates by analogy, not registered-deed series. Collect registered comparables in the same revenue estate before negotiating.
Approved is not irrigated
The Jhapan Nala project (Tendukheda, ₹165.06 crore, December 2025) has no reported start date; value land on its present water.
Sources disagree on two blocks
CGWB lists Hatta and Patharia as semi-critical; the CRIDA plan classes all blocks safe. Ask for the current block category before relying on a borewell.
Compensation benchmark
Free Press Journal reports ₹22 lakh per hectare (irrigated) and ₹11 lakh per hectare (non-irrigated) for the Sagar–Damoh road acquisition; these are award rates for one project, not market prices for other parcels.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & forest offices
Mutation and revenue-record matters go through the Tehsildar of the relevant tehsil; the CGWB profile lists seven (CGWB Damoh profile) and the portal tehsil page could not be opened. The Sub-Divisional Officer (Revenue) handles diversion, the Collector’s office handles tribal-land permission, ceiling matters and acquisition notices, and sale-deed registration is done at the Sub-Registrar’s office, with online registration through Sampada 2.0. We could not open MP Bhulekh or the Registration Department 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 Damoh.
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What does farm land cost in Damoh?
We estimate* roughly ₹12–35 lakh per acre near Damoh city and the Sagar road, ₹4–12 lakh for Sonar and Bearma plains, and ₹2–7 lakh for forest-fringe and tight-water blocks. These are indicative estimates, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. We found no guideline-rate report or compensation award for Damoh.
02 of 04
Does the Sagar–Damoh four-lane affect land in Damoh?
Free Press Journal reported on 21 July 2026 that the 76.68 km road is being widened to four lanes, with 42.25 hectares to be acquired and more than 200 families possibly affected. The article does not split the Damoh side, so ask the Collector for acquisition notices on the khasra.
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What stamp duty applies to land in Damoh?
Dainik Jagran English reported in March 2026 stamp duty of 7.5% and a registration fee of 3% state-wide, about 10.5% combined. We could not open the Registration Department page, so confirm with the Sub-Registrar. We found no Damoh-specific guideline-rate report.
04 of 04
Is Damoh part of the Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve?
Drishti IAS reported in September 2023 that the reserve, notified on 22 September 2023, spans Sagar, Damoh and Narsinghpur, with a 1,414 sq km core and a 925.12 sq km buffer. We did not find which Damoh villages lie inside, so ask the Forest Department for written status.
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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 (section 165(6))
- Pooran Singh v. Dhaniram, Civil Appeal 3122 of 2019, Supreme Court, 14 Mar 2019 (section 170B)
- Second Appeal 2837 of 2022, Madhya Pradesh High Court (Jabalpur), 17 Feb 2025 (Will of tribal land)
- Garvit Khandelwal v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Writ Appeal 200 of 2021, High Court (Indore), 15 Jun 2022 (diverted land)
- Civil Appeals 7732-7733 of 2004, Supreme Court, 26 Aug 2008 (section 59, reassessment and premium)
- Bajranga v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Civil Appeal 6209 of 2010, Supreme Court, 19 Jan 2021 (Ceiling Act, section 7)
Government
- Damoh district portal, home (area, population, neighbours)
- About the district, Damoh district portal
- Ground water information, Damoh district, CGWB (2013 profile, 2008-09 resource base)
- Scheduled Areas Order, 2003, gazette reprint
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Madhya Pradesh 2024, CGWB
- Damoh district agriculture contingency plan (crops, irrigation, soils, rainfall), ICAR-CRIDA
News
- Sagar–Damoh highway to be widened into four lanes, Free Press Journal, 21 Jul 2026
- MP govt to construct Vindhya Expressway from Bhopal to Singrauli, Outlook India (PTI), 15 Feb 2023
- Areas notified in Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve, Drishti IAS, Sep 2023
- Madhya Pradesh guideline rate hike proposed for 2026-27, stamp duty and registration charges, Dainik Jagran English, 27 Mar 2026
- Bhopal: guideline rate hike proposed, Dainik Jagran English, 25 Mar 2026
- Indian Stamp (Madhya Pradesh Second Amendment) Act, 2025, TeamLease RegTech, Dec 2025
- MP CM launches online portal for e-registry (Sampada 2.0), The Statesman, Oct 2024
- Cabinet approves major development push for Bundelkhand, The Hitavada, 10 Dec 2025
Further reading
- Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960, legal database
- Master Direction on immovable assets under FEMA 1999, Reserve Bank of India
Data-currency note: the CGWB profile is a 2013 document with a 2009 resource base and internal inconsistencies (gross draft, conductivity range); the ICAR-CRIDA plan uses 2008-09 crop areas and classes blocks differently from CGWB; the portal and CGWB differ on population and villages; the tehsil list was not read from the portal; infrastructure statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly. Price bands marked with an asterisk are indicative estimates, not valuations. This is a general guide, not legal advice. Report inaccuracies to wiki@farmlandindia.com.
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