.png){kind=logo}
District guide
Buying Land in Katni
A limestone and railway-junction district beside Jabalpur: tribal-land and diversion checks, mining and forest overlays, and a bypass that is open but needs repair.
4,950 sq km
Area (district portal)
12.92 lakh
Population (2011)
₹3–40 lakh/acre
Estimated land price*
871 of 1,486
Guideline locations revised (2026 proposal)
*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 — Katni
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Madhya Pradesh
Sub-divisions
The CGWB profile (data to about 2009) lists 4 tehsils and 6 blocks: Rithi, Katni, Badwara, Vijayraghogarh, Bahoriband and Dhimarkheda (CGWB district profile, Katni). The district portal pages we opened do not list tehsils, so CONFIRM the current tehsil list with the Collector’s office.
Key markets
Katni city and bypass belt · Rithi · Badwara · Vijayraghogarh · Bahoriband · Dhimarkheda
Demand anchors
Railway junction and limestone-cement town about 90 km from Jabalpur · Katni bypass · limestone and fireclay belt
Rail
Katni, described on the district portal as one of India’s largest railway junctions, with a major railyard and diesel locomotive shed (Katni district portal)
Size and population
4,950 sq km and 12,92,042 people in 2011 on the district portal (Katni district portal, demography); the CGWB profile gives 4,504.11 sq km, so area is CONFIRM
Pricing unit
₹/acre · Estimated land price*: ₹3–40 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.
Katni — 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
Katni — district-specific notes
The Madhya Pradesh state page applies to Katni 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 MP 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). We found no source listing notified tribal tehsils or villages for the district; ask the Collector’s office in writing whether the owner is a tribal holder and whether the village lies in a notified area.
⚠ 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 Katni.
⚠ Katni sits in a limestone and bauxite belt, and the district portal says the area has “abundant lime and bauxite” (Katni district portal). The CGWB profile names cement-grade limestone and fireclay as the district’s minerals (CGWB profile). A parcel may sit inside or beside a mining lease, and the state held a National Mining Conclave in Katni on 23 August 2025 (IANS, August 2025). Ask the District Mining Officer whether the khasra lies in a granted or auctioned block. Separately, the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve has a notified core of 716.9 sq km and buffer of 820.0 sq km (NTCA brief note); that page does not say which Katni villages, if any, fall in the buffer or its eco-sensitive zone, so ask the Forest Department for a written status.
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
- Ceiling Act 1960
- Mining and forest checks
District overview
Katni — a limestone and railway district beside Jabalpur
Katni is a district in the Mahakoshal region of Madhya Pradesh, about 90 km from the divisional headquarters at Jabalpur and constituted on 28 May 1998 (Katni district portal). The district portal gives 4,950 sq km and 12,92,042 people at the 2011 Census, with a sex ratio of 952 and literacy of 71.98% (district portal, demography). The CGWB profile, whose data run to about 2009, counts 4 tehsils and 6 blocks and gives a different area of 4,504.11 sq km (CGWB profile). Katni Junction is the district’s rail identity.
The estimated farm-land price* for Katni runs from about ₹3 lakh to ₹40 lakh per acre. The upper end applies to land near Katni city and the bypass, the middle to ordinary farm land in Rithi, Badwara and Vijayraghogarh, and the lower end to forest-fringe land in Bahoriband and Dhimarkheda. We found no published per-acre guideline rate. The nearest official signal is a Patrika report (in Hindi) that 871 of the district’s 1,486 guideline locations were proposed for higher rates in a 2026 revision still awaiting approval (Patrika, 2026). *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.
Farming here is mostly rain-fed. The CGWB profile gives average rainfall of 1,171.4 mm and names paddy, wheat and gram as the main crops, on pale yellow, reddish brown and medium black soils; the same profile puts groundwater development at 45% as on March 2009 (CGWB profile). Buyers should weigh mining, forest and bypass-road proximity above crop yield.
- Katni Junction
- Katni bypass
- Rithi
- Badwara
- Limestone belt
- Mahakoshal
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Katni
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 Katni 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). Katni’s own guideline rates are in motion: see the market notes below.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Katni
One district-level report on guideline-rate proposals and our indicative price bands*. No per-acre guideline rate was found, and no asking-price series is used.
Guideline revision, 2026 (proposal)
871 of 1,486 locations proposed for higher rates
Patrika (in Hindi) reported that the District Valuation Committee, chaired by the Collector, proposed higher guideline rates at 871 of the district’s 1,486 locations from 1 April, with Katni tehsil holding 280 of them. About 20 Katni Rural locations were proposed for rises of 90% or more, and ten new locations were added. The proposal goes to the Central Valuation Committee after claims and objections (Patrika, 2026). The report does not give agricultural rates separately.
Check: whether the revision was approved, and the rate for your village on Sampada 2.0. The page we read carries no clear date, so the year is CONFIRM.
Estimated land price*: city and bypass belt
₹15–40 lakh per acre*
Land close to Katni city and the Katni bypass, where non-farm demand and road access lift prices. The band is wide because we hold no registered-deed series for the district; it is set by analogy with comparable Mahakoshal districts 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: access road, diversion status and the guideline rate for the exact survey number.
Estimated land price*: rural farm land
₹4–12 lakh per acre* (Rithi, Badwara, Vijayraghogarh)
Rain-fed and partly irrigated farm land away from the bypass. The CGWB profile shows a district of paddy, wheat and gram with groundwater development of 45% as on March 2009 (CGWB profile), which points to moderate rather than premium farm values. *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 whether the parcel sits near a mining block.
Estimated land price*: forest-fringe land
₹3–8 lakh per acre* (Bahoriband, Dhimarkheda)
Land at the edge of forest areas, where tribal-land rules, forest status and wildlife-reserve buffers can restrict use. The band is the lowest in the district for that reason. *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: written forest status and tribal-land status before any deposit.
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 Katni connects — road, rail and air
Distances to Jabalpur and other cities are given only where a source states them. Journey times vary with traffic and road works.
By road
By air
By rail
The practical question is the last leg from the bypass to the parcel; ask for the access road in the revenue record. Full Madhya Pradesh rules for buyers from outside the state 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.
02Open or inaugurated
02In progress or pending
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Katni
A rain-fed Mahakoshal district of paddy, wheat and gram, with mining and forest land setting the real limits on use.
🌾 Plains and black-soil patches (Katni, Rithi, Badwara)
The CGWB profile gives pale yellow, reddish brown and medium black soils, the last 1 to 4 m thick over shales, and names paddy, wheat and gram as principal crops, without hectare figures (CGWB profile). Its irrigation table is internally inconsistent, with 11,008 dug wells but a net irrigated area of only 492 ha, so we do not rely on it for irrigated share. Village-level soil data is on the Soil Health Card portal (not opened for this page).
- Paddy
- Wheat
- Gram
- Black soil
⛏ Limestone and mining belt
Katni is known for cement-grade limestone and fireclay (CGWB profile), and the portal notes abundant lime and bauxite (district portal). Mining leases and quarry dust matter more to land value here than soil.
- Limestone
- Fireclay
- Bauxite
🌲 Forest edge and rivers
The profile puts about 82% of the district in the Ganga basin and the rest in the Narmada basin, with the Chhoti Mahanadi, Katni and Ken as the main rivers (CGWB profile). Land at the forest edge needs a written forest-status check; the Bandhavgarh reserve figures are in the legal notes above.
- Katni river
- Chhoti Mahanadi
- Ken
💧 Water & rainfall
Average annual rainfall is 1,171.4 mm, of which 56.9% falls in the June to September monsoon, and the stage of groundwater development was 45% as on March 2009 (CGWB profile), an old figure. The 2024 state assessment lists Katni among districts with sporadic fluoride above 1.5 mg/L and nitrate above 45 mg/L (CGWB, Madhya Pradesh 2024). State-wide extraction is 58.40% (Safe), but we found no 2024 block table for Katni; check the block category on the IN-GRES portal for any borewell plan.
📐 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); crop income is modest next to land values near the bypass.
At a glance
Katni vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Price band* (per acre) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Katni — city and bypass belt* | ₹15–40 lakh* | Indicative estimate; not a valuation |
| Katni — rural farm land* | ₹4–12 lakh* | Indicative estimate; not a valuation |
| Katni — forest-fringe land* | ₹3–8 lakh* | Indicative estimate; not a valuation |
| Narsinghpur — irrigated Narmada belt* | ₹12–30 lakh* | Indicative estimate; see the Narsinghpur page |
| Chhatarpur — rain-fed Bundelkhand* | ₹2–10 lakh* | Indicative estimate; see the Chhatarpur 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 Narsinghpur page for the Narmada valley and the Chhatarpur page for Bundelkhand.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Katni
Five reasoned points, with an honest note that the price evidence is thin and the roads need checking on the ground.
A railway junction town near Jabalpur
Katni is about 90 km from Jabalpur and holds one of the larger rail junctions in the country, according to the district portal (Katni district portal). That is a source of non-farm demand, though we found no data on how much it lifts land values.
A bypass that exists but needs repair
A four-lane Katni bypass is in service, and Patrika reported in December 2025 that its service roads had deteriorated and a rebuild was proposed (Patrika, December 2025). Access is better than in many districts; check the condition on a site visit.
Guideline rates are being revised
A 2026 proposal raised guideline rates at 871 of 1,486 locations, with some Katni Rural locations up 90% or more (Patrika, 2026). Rising floors raise stamp cost; they do not set market prices.
A mineral belt, for better and worse
Limestone and bauxite support local industry (district portal), but a parcel beside a lease can carry dust, traffic and acquisition risk. Match the khasra against lease maps before paying a premium.
A market that rewards paperwork
Tribal-land, ceiling, diversion and forest checks are all parcel-specific. A buyer who documents each one is better placed than one relying on a broker summary. The return case is location and permitted use, not crop yield.
Confirm tribal-land, ceiling, diversion, mining and forest status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Katni
Read these before shortlisting in Katni specifically.
Tribal-land permission
Section 165(6) permission is needed for a sale by a tribal holder to a non-tribal outside notified areas, and the bar is absolute inside them. We found no list of notified Katni villages, so ask the Collector in writing.
Mining leases and quarry dust
Katni is a limestone and bauxite district with auctioned mineral blocks across the state. Ask the District Mining Officer whether the khasra lies in or beside a lease.
Forest and tiger-reserve status
The Bandhavgarh reserve has a 820.0 sq km buffer, and the source does not say which Katni villages fall in it. Get written forest status before a deposit.
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.
Guideline-rate churn
A 2026 proposal raised rates at 871 of 1,486 locations; approval is CONFIRM. Check the rate in force on the sale-deed date.
Fluoride and nitrate in groundwater
The 2024 state assessment lists sporadic fluoride above 1.5 mg/L and nitrate above 45 mg/L in Katni. Test the borewell water before a farmhouse plan.
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.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & forest offices
Mutation and revenue-record matters go through the Tehsildar of the relevant tehsil, with the tehsil list to be confirmed with the Collector’s office because the pages we opened do not carry it. The Sub-Divisional Officer (Revenue) handles diversion, the Collector’s office handles tribal-land permission and ceiling matters, and sale-deed registration is done at the Sub-Registrar’s office, increasingly through Sampada 2.0. The district office pages are on the Katni district portal. We could not open MP Bhulekh or the Registration Department pages, so check them directly.
KEEP EXPLORING
Explore more areas
Other districts in Madhya Pradesh
- Agar Malwa
- Alirajpur
- Anuppur
- Ashok Nagar
- Balaghat
- Barwani
- Betul
- Bhind
- Bhopal
- Burhanpur
- Chhatarpur
- Chhindwara
- Damoh
- Datia
- Dewas
- Dhar
- Dindori
- Guna
- Gwalior
- Harda
- Hoshangabad
- Indore
- Jabalpur
- Jhabua
- KhandwaAgricultural Land • 1 listing
- Khargone
- Mandla
- Mandsaur
- Mauganj
- Morena
- Narsinghpur
- Neemuch
- Niwari
- Pandhurna
- Panna
- Raisen
- Rajgarh
- Ratlam
- Rewa
- Sagar
- Satna
- Sehore
- Seoni
- Shahdol
- Shajapur
- Sheopur
- Shivpuri
- Sidhi
- Singrauli
- Tikamgarh
- Ujjain
- Umaria
- Vidisha
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Katni.
Visit full wiki01 of 04
What does farm land cost in Katni?
We estimate* roughly ₹15–40 lakh per acre near Katni city and the bypass, ₹4–12 lakh for rural farm land in Rithi, Badwara and Vijayraghogarh, and ₹3–8 lakh for forest-fringe land in Bahoriband and Dhimarkheda. These are indicative estimates, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. We found no per-acre guideline rate, so check the rate with the Sub-Registrar.
02 of 04
Does tribal-land law affect land in Katni?
It can. Section 165(6) of the Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code needs written permission of a Collector-rank officer for a sale by a tribal holder to a non-tribal outside notified areas, and the bar is absolute inside them (Supreme Court, April 2025). We found no list of notified Katni villages, so ask the Collector’s office in writing.
03 of 04
What stamp duty applies to land in Katni?
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. Katni also had a 2026 proposal raising guideline rates at 871 of 1,486 locations, approval CONFIRM.
04 of 04
Which infrastructure affects Katni?
A four-lane Katni bypass is open, with service roads reported deteriorated and a rebuild proposed in December 2025 (Patrika). Katni Junction is one of the country’s large railway junctions per the district portal. We found no sourced new highway or rail project for the district.
Ready to look at what is available?
Browse reviewed listingsTransparency
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)
- Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 (sections 5 and 7), legal database copy
Government
- Katni district portal, home page (district profile, railway junction, 28 May 1998)
- Demography page (area, 2011 population, literacy), Katni district portal
- Ground water information booklet, Katni district, Central Ground Water Board (data to about 2009)
- Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve brief note, National Tiger Conservation Authority
- 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, 2024, Central Ground Water Board
- Madhya Pradesh state profile, State Level Bankers Committee
News
- Land rates will increase in Katni district (in Hindi), Patrika, 2026
- NHAI road in Katni (in Hindi), Patrika, 13 Dec 2025
- Subsidiary hands over Katni bypass road project, Business Standard, 18 Aug 2022
- Katni to host National Mining Conclave, IANS, 22 Aug 2025
- Limestone reserves declining, MP, CemNet, 6 Mar 2009
- 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
- Madhya Pradesh plans Narmada Pragati Path, Free Press Journal, 2 Aug 2026
Further reading
- Madhya Pradesh state profile, State Level Bankers Committee
- Formation of new districts, The Hitavada, 2 Sep 2024
- Centre asks MP to give land for Narmada Expressway project, Business Standard, 7 Feb 2018
- Master Direction on immovable assets under FEMA 1999, Reserve Bank of India
- Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960, legal database
- Indian Stamp (MP Second Amendment) Act 2025, TeamLease RegTech
- Sampada 2.0 launch, The Statesman, Oct 2024
- Narmada Pragati Path, Free Press Journal, 2 Aug 2026
Data-currency note: area and population are district-portal figures and the CGWB profile gives a different area; crop, irrigation and groundwater data come from a profile with data to about 2009; infrastructure statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly; guideline-rate figures are a proposal. Pages marked “not opened” are named only as places to check. 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.
For developers
Ready to explore Katni farmland?
Browse reviewed projects and individual land parcels across Katni — or if you own land here, list it with platform review and reach serious buyers.