What does agricultural land cost in Mauganj?

We found no guideline-rate report or dated price series for Mauganj. Farmland India's estimate is about ₹6–18 lakh per acre for interior farm land and about ₹20–55 lakh per acre at the town edge and on road frontage*, with forest-edge and rain-fed land lower. *Indicative only, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. Check the guideline rate with the Sub-Registrar.

What stamp duty applies to land in Mauganj?

Dainik Jagran English reported in March 2026 stamp duty of 7.5% and a registration charge of 3% on the higher of market or transaction value, about 10.5% together, and an earlier piece gave 9.5% to 12.5%. We could not open the Registration Department's page, so ask the Sub-Registrar for the current schedule. A short-stamped document attracts a 1% a month penalty on the shortfall since 17 December 2025.

Which infrastructure affects Mauganj?

A Devtalab–Naigarhi road toward Prayagraj and Varanasi was under construction in September 2023 with no later status found (India Infra Hub). Rewa Airport, in the parent district, opened virtually on 21 October 2024 (The Pioneer), and the cabinet approved district treasuries for Mauganj in June 2025 (Outlook India). A Prayagraj–Manikpur third line of 84 km was announced in May 2025 for the Rewa region, without naming Mauganj (Free Press Journal).

Paddy and wheat farmland on the Vindhyan plateau near Mauganj, Madhya Pradesh, with a village road and low hills on the horizon

District guide

Buying Land in Mauganj

A district created from Rewa in August 2023: three tehsils on the Uttar Pradesh border, an old-district data gap and a road to Prayagraj still in progress.

₹6–18 lakh per acre*
Estimated interior farm land*
3
Tehsils (district portal)
13 Aug 2023
Formed
10.5% (reported)
Sale-deed duty and fee

*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 — Mauganj

Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk

State

Madhya Pradesh (Rewa division; formed from Rewa district by a gazette order of 13 August 2023, Free Press Journal, August 2023)

Sub-divisions

Three tehsils: Mauganj, Hanumana and Naigarhi (district portal; Free Press Journal, August 2023). The portal pages opened give no block list, so check the current administrative list

Key markets

Mauganj town (district headquarters) · Hanumana · Naigarhi · Deotalab area (assembly constituency named on the portal)

Estimated land price*

Interior farm land about ₹6–18 lakh per acre*; town-edge and road-frontage land about ₹20–55 lakh per acre*. Indicative only, not a valuation or an offer; check the guideline rate with the Sub-Registrar

Agricultural land

Open to Indian citizens (no non-farmer bar found in the sources opened); NRIs and OCIs barred under FEMA (RBI Master Direction)

Demand anchors

New district headquarters build-out · Devtalab–Naigarhi road toward Prayagraj and Varanasi · Rewa Airport in the parent district

Air and rail

No airport in the district; Rewa Airport opened in October 2024 (The Pioneer, October 2024) · rail services not checked; see the connectivity section

Size and population

1,866.88 sq km, 6,16,645 people and 1,070 villages as shown on the district portal, which does not state the Census year (Mauganj district portal)

Pricing unit

₹/acre (farm land) · ₹/sq m (guideline rates, colonies)

Local units

Hectare and acre: 1 hectare is about 2.47 acres and 1 acre about 4,047 sq m (our arithmetic). Local units can differ by tehsil and village, so ask for the area in hectares

Land records portal

MP Bhulekh (khasra and B-1; portal not opened) · Sampada 2.0 for registration (The Statesman, October 2024)

Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Madhya Pradesh page and apply to every district within it.

Mauganj — 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

Read the state-wise land laws guide

Mauganj — district-specific notes

Read these before any advance. They sit on top of the state rules and are not a substitute for a lawyer's title check.

⚠ State framework applies in full: the buyer rules on our Madhya Pradesh state page (tribal-land permission, the holding ceiling, the FEMA bar on NRIs) hold in Mauganj district. The notes below are specific to this district. Court orders and news reports were read in October 2026; the Land Revenue Code, the Registration Department, MP Bhulekh and the Tehsildar-level records could not be opened (automated fetches were refused), so a local advocate should read the current text.

⚠ Diversion has changed form: a June 2022 High Court order still speaks of land "diverted under section 172" (High Court, June 2022). A legal-database copy of the 2018 amending Act lists a deletion of section 172 and a new section 59, under which the landholder works out the premium and reassessed revenue, pays it and tells the Sub-Divisional Officer, and the land is treated as diverted from the date of that intimation (Land Revenue Code Amendment Act 2018). The same text says the SDO can act without an intimation, with a penalty of 50%. The Supreme Court described the premium and reassessment under the older section 59 in 2008 (Supreme Court, August 2008). Ask the Tehsildar or SDO which route applies and ask the seller for the receipt. This remains CONFIRM-WITH-OFFICE.

⚠ New district, thin records: Mauganj was carved out of Rewa in August 2023, taking the Mauganj, Hanumana and Naigarhi tehsils, and the order was issued under section 13 of the Land Revenue Code (Free Press Journal, August 2023). A June 2025 cabinet note approved district treasuries for the new districts including Mauganj (Outlook India, June 2025). Older rate lists, ground-water profiles and industrial profiles describe the undivided Rewa district, so a village record may still sit under Rewa in an old document. Confirm the parent district, tehsil and registration office of any village before relying on an older figure.

⚠ Forest and protected land: the only land-use figure we found is for the undivided Rewa district, where an undated industrial profile shows 307,241 ha of forest out of 610,632 ha reported for 2010-11, about half (our arithmetic; Rewa district industrial profile). We found no Mauganj-specific forest share and no tiger-reserve or eco-sensitive-zone notification for the district in the sources opened. Ask the Tehsildar and the Divisional Forest Officer whether a survey number is recorded as forest or revenue-forest land before paying an advance.

⚠ Ceiling and tribal land: a legal-database copy of the 1960 Ceiling Act gives 18, 27 and 54 acres for a family of five or fewer on two-crop irrigated, one-crop irrigated and dry land (Ceiling Act text); the Supreme Court quoted the 54-acre limit in 2021 (Supreme Court, January 2021). Tribal-land permission under section 165(6) of the Land Revenue Code applies where the seller holds land as a member of a tribe the Code treats as aboriginal (Supreme Court, April 2025), and section 170B lets the Collector reverse a transfer found to be fraudulent (Supreme Court, March 2019). A Will in favour of a non-tribal needs the same permission (High Court, February 2025). We did not find a notified-area list for Mauganj, so ask the Tehsildar whether the seller's land is held as tribal land.

⚠ NRIs, OCIs and records: NRIs and OCIs may not buy agricultural land, plantation land or a farm house under FEMA 1999 (RBI Master Direction). Compare a fresh khasra and B-1 extract from MP Bhulekh with the sale deed on survey number, area and owner; the portal was not opened for this page.

Read the Madhya Pradesh land rules for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and NRI rules.

District formed 2023
Old-district data
Forest check
Diversion and premium
1960 ceiling
Tribal land check
NRI bar

District overview

Mauganj — a district formed in 2023, between Rewa and Uttar Pradesh

Mauganj is the 53rd district of Madhya Pradesh and the fifth in the Rewa division, formed in 2023 from Rewa. The district portal lists three tehsils, Mauganj, Hanumana and Naigarhi, and two assembly seats, Mauganj and Deotalab (Mauganj district portal). The portal home page gives 1,866.88 sq km, 6,16,645 people and 1,070 villages, without stating the year of the population count (Mauganj district portal).

The entry rules match the rest of the state. None of the court orders or Act texts opened bars a buyer for not being a farmer, the 1960 ceiling is the main limit on size, and NRIs and OCIs are barred under FEMA. What is specific to Mauganj is that it is new: the Hitavada noted in September 2024 that Mauganj, Maihar and Pandhurna were created in 2023 and that more districts were under consideration (The Hitavada, September 2024), so records, rate lists and offices are still settling.

Public works are modest and mostly in the parent district. A Devtalab–Naigarhi road, meant to improve links between the Rewa area and Prayagraj and Varanasi, was under construction in September 2023 (India Infra Hub, September 2023), and Rewa Airport was opened virtually on 21 October 2024 (The Pioneer, October 2024). We found no Mauganj-specific report on tehsil land prices.

We found no study linking these projects to farm land prices here, so a broker's claim that a project will lift values is unproven. The bands on this page are estimates and are marked with an asterisk. See also Rewa and Satna.

Formed Aug 2023
Rewa division
Three tehsils
Devtalab–Naigarhi road
Old-district data
Forest check

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Mauganj district locator map poster: Mauganj district outline in the Rewa division of Madhya Pradesh with its three tehsils, Mauganj, Hanumana and Naigarhi, marked

Transaction costs

Stamp duty & registration in Mauganj

7.5%

Stamp duty (reported)

on the higher of market or transaction value

Registration fee (reported)

same base

~10.5%

Combined (reported)

arithmetic of the two reported rates

Stamp duty of 7.5% and a registration charge of 3% on the higher of market value or transaction value were reported on 27 March 2026 (Dainik Jagran English, March 2026). A 25 March piece put the combined range at 9.5% to 12.5% and said charges would rise in step with any guideline-rate rise (Dainik Jagran English, 25 March 2026). The Registration Department's own fee page was not opened, so ask the Sub-Registrar for the current schedule for agricultural land before budgeting; levies or concessions can change the total. Since 17 December 2025 a short-stamped document attracts a penalty of 1% of the shortfall per month (TeamLease RegTech, December 2025).

We found no Mauganj-specific guideline-rate report for 2026-27, so no district average is quoted. Guideline rates are set village by village and colony by colony, and the rate for a survey number can be looked up on Sampada 2.0 (The Statesman, October 2024). A 2023 report on the state-wide guideline revision covered about 18,000 locations but predates the district (Free Press Journal, March 2023), so ask whether the village was re-listed under Mauganj.

Know the belt

What is moving prices in Mauganj

Five signals from reports and official pages. No guideline-rate report for Mauganj and no asking-price series was found; the estimated bands on this page are marked *.

District boundary change

Formed 13 Aug 2023

Mauganj, Hanumana and Naigarhi tehsils left Rewa under a gazette order (Free Press Journal, August 2023). Any older price quote, rate list or statistic may describe the undivided Rewa district.

Check: which district and tehsil the village sits in today.

New district machinery

Treasuries approved Jun 2025

The state cabinet approved district treasuries for the newly formed districts of Pandhurna, Maihar and Mauganj (Outlook India, June 2025). Offices and staffing in a new district can lag, which slows mutation and registration.

Check: which office holds the village record and how long mutation is taking.

Devtalab–Naigarhi road

In progress, Sep 2023

The road is meant to improve links between the Rewa area and Prayagraj and Varanasi; no cost, length or completion date appeared in the report (India Infra Hub, September 2023). We found no 2026 update.

Check: whether the survey number lies inside the road alignment or a widening corridor.

Rewa Airport nearby

Opened Oct 2024, in Rewa district

The airport is in the parent district, not Mauganj, and routes have changed often (The Hitavada, December 2025). It widens the buyer pool for the Rewa division but we found no price effect reported for Mauganj.

Check: the current flight timetable, not the announced one.

Acquisition delays in the region

Rewa roads cited, Jun 2026

A state review reported in June 2026 that Public Works Department road projects in Rewa were delayed by land acquisition (Free Press Journal, June 2026). The report named Rewa, not Mauganj, but the same department and process apply.

Check: the status of acquisition on the road that serves the parcel.

Units: hectare, acre, sq m

Court orders in this state describe holdings in survey numbers and hectares (High Court, June 2022), the Ceiling Act figures are in acres, and guideline rates for colonies are per sq m. One hectare is about 2.47 acres and one acre about 4,047 sq m (our arithmetic). Local units can differ by tehsil and village, so convert every quote to hectares before comparing.

Connectivity

How Mauganj connects — road, rail and air

Rewa is the main road, air and rail hub for the area. Distances and times are not quoted because none was sourced for Mauganj.

By road

Devtalab–Naigarhi roadunder construction as of Sep 2023, meant to improve links to Prayagraj and Varanasi (India Infra Hub)

Seven NH projects, Rewa district204 km, Rs 2,444 crore in progress or opened across Rewa district; the report gives no breakdown, so none is attributed to Mauganj (India Infra Hub)

Road distancesnot sourced for Mauganj; check with the Public Works Department or NHAI

By air

Rewa Airport, Chorhataopened virtually 21 Oct 2024, in the parent district (The Pioneer)

RoutesDelhi service at about 80–85% load factor in late 2025; Bhopal route suspended in October 2025 and restart planned (The Hitavada, Dec 2025)

Mauganj itselfno airport found in the sources opened

By rail

Prayagraj–Manikpur third line (regional)84 km, about ₹1,640 crore, announced May 2025; names the Rewa region, not Mauganj (Free Press Journal)

Main-line railservices and stations for Mauganj were not checked for this page

CheckIndian Railways timetable for trains from Rewa and the nearest station to the village

The practical question is the last leg: where a parcel meets a road that is open in the monsoon and outside any alignment. A state review in June 2026 said land acquisition was delaying Public Works Department road projects in Rewa (Free Press Journal, June 2026), so ask which road works are still pending near a parcel. The state rules apply to every purchase.

Growth catalysts

Upcoming infrastructure & developments

Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Government-announced timelines are not guaranteed; items marked confirm have single or conflicting sources.

01Operational or existing

03In progress, planned or delayed

Operational · opened October 2024 Rewa Airport (parent district)

Under construction as of 2023 report · status confirm Devtalab–Naigarhi road

Administrative · treasuries approved June 2025 New district headquarters set-up

Reported · regional rail item · May 2025 Prayagraj–Manikpur third line (regional)

Operational · opened October 2024

Rewa Airport (parent district)

The airport at Chorhata was opened virtually on 21 October 2024. It is in Rewa district, not Mauganj, but it is the nearest air link for the Rewa division. By December 2025 Rewa–Delhi was running with load factors of about 80–85%, Rewa–Indore was due from 22 December and Rewa–Bhopal had been suspended in October with a restart planned for January 2026. Route changes have been frequent, so check current flights.

Source: The Pioneer, Oct 2024; The Hitavada, Dec 2025

Opened

21 Oct 2024

District

Rewa

Delhi load factor

~80–85%

Indore route

from 22 Dec 2025

Land markets in the blast radius

Mauganj town
Rewa road corridor

See listings near this corridor

Under construction as of 2023 report · status confirm

Devtalab–Naigarhi road

India Infra Hub reported in September 2023 that a Devtalab–Naigarhi road was under construction to improve connectivity between the Rewa area and Prayagraj and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Naigarhi is one of Mauganj district's three tehsils and Deotalab is one of its two assembly seats, so the road runs through the district. The report gives no cost, length or completion date, and we found no 2026 update.

Source: India Infra Hub, Sep 2023; Mauganj district portal

Link

Rewa area to Prayagraj, Varanasi

Status (2023)

under construction

Cost

not stated

Latest report

none found

Land markets in the blast radius

Naigarhi
Devtalab
Mauganj town

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Administrative · treasuries approved June 2025

New district headquarters set-up

Mauganj became a district on 13 August 2023, with the district headquarters at Mauganj city, and in June 2025 the cabinet approved district treasuries for it and two other new districts. Offices, staffing and record systems in a new district take time to settle. No cost or timeline for the treasury or other office buildings was given in the reports we read.

Source: Free Press Journal, Aug 2023; Outlook India, Jun 2025

Formed

13 Aug 2023

Tehsils

Headquarters

Mauganj

Treasury approval

17 Jun 2025

Land markets in the blast radius

Mauganj town
Hanumana

See listings near this corridor

Reported · regional rail item · May 2025

Prayagraj–Manikpur third line (regional)

The Railways Minister announced an 84 km third line between Prayagraj (Iradatganj) and Manikpur at about ₹1,640 crore, described as serving the Rewa region of Madhya Pradesh and Chitrakoot and Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh. The report does not name Mauganj and gives no completion date, so any effect on Mauganj land is unproven.

Source: Free Press Journal, May 2025

Length

84 km

Cost

₹1,640 crore

Mauganj named?

Land markets in the blast radius

Mauganj town
Naigarhi

See listings near this corridor

Agriculture & terrain

Soil, crops & water in Mauganj

Vindhyan plateau of paddy, pulses and wheat. District-level agriculture and groundwater data for Mauganj are not yet published separately, so old Rewa figures stand in.

🌾 Vindhyan soils and crops

The CGWB 2013 profile for the undivided Rewa district gives 1,141.5 mm of normal annual rainfall, 89.2% of it in the south-west monsoon, and lists paddy, pulses, gram, wheat and soybean as principal crops, on mainly Vindhyan rock with alluvium along rivers (CGWB, 2013). The profile pre-dates the 2023 split and does not separate Mauganj. Village soil data is on the Soil Health Card portal.

Paddy
Pulses
Gram
Wheat
Soybean

🌲 Forest and revenue-forest land

The only land-use figure we found covers the undivided Rewa district: 307,241 ha of forest out of 610,632 ha reported for 2010-11, about half (our arithmetic; Rewa district industrial profile). We cannot say how much falls in Mauganj. Get the forest status of the survey number in writing.

Forest share
Forest edge
Classification
Boundary

⛏ Minor minerals

The same profile records only minor minerals for 2010-11, led by lime, plus stone, flagstone and murum (Rewa district industrial profile). We did not find mining-lease data for Mauganj, so check for leases, blasting limits and haul roads near a parcel.

Lime
Stone
Murum
Lease land

🌾 Crop pattern, old Rewa figures

The ICAR-CRIDA contingency plan for undivided Rewa lists, for 2008-09, kharif rice (132.9 thousand ha) and soybean (29.7) and rabi wheat (147.2), chickpea (57.1) and lentil (25.3), on deep black soils covering about 75% of the area, with a net sown area of 352.2 thousand ha of which 86.2 was irrigated, about 24% (our arithmetic) (ICAR-CRIDA, Rewa). The plan pre-dates the 2023 split and does not separate Mauganj; its irrigation table is unclear in places, so the bore-well and lift figures are not used.

Rice
Wheat
Chickpea
Lentil
Soybean

💧 Water & groundwater

The CGWB 2013 profile put the undivided district's stage of groundwater development at 52% (2009), with Gangav block the only semi-critical block at 82% and eight blocks safe; irrigation came from tube wells (35,500 ha), dug wells (27,200 ha) and canals (12,400 ha) (CGWB, 2013). The state-wide stage of extraction is 58.40% in the 2024 assessment, which gives no Mauganj figure (CGWB, GWRA-2024). Check borewell depth before assuming a water source for a farm house.

📐 Measurement units & market prices

Court orders use survey numbers and hectares, the Ceiling Act uses acres and guideline rates for colonies are per sq m, so convert before comparing. Mandi prices for the nearest regulated market are on Agmarknet. Crop income is small beside land values near the town and the road, so price a parcel on access, forest status and title, not yield.

At a glance

Mauganj vs. its neighbours

District / belt	Price band* (per acre unless stated)	Evidence
Mauganj — town edge and road frontage (Mauganj, Naigarhi)	Estimated ₹20–55 lakh per acre*	District headquarters and the Devtalab–Naigarhi road (India Infra Hub, Sep 2023)
Mauganj — interior farm land (Hanumana, Mauganj, Naigarhi)	Estimated ₹6–18 lakh per acre*	Paddy–wheat plateau; groundwater 52% developed in the undivided district in 2009 (CGWB, 2013)
Mauganj — forest-edge and rain-fed land	Estimated ₹3–9 lakh per acre*	About half of the undivided Rewa district recorded as forest (industrial profile)
Rewa (parent district)	See the Rewa page	Airport opened Oct 2024 and 750 MW solar park (The Pioneer, Oct 2024)
Satna	Not estimated here	Neighbouring Vindhya market on the Rewa division border

*Estimated by the Farmland India desk, rounded wide. Indicative only, not a valuation or an offer; prices vary by plot, road access and title. Check the guideline rate with the Sub-Registrar. See the Rewa page for the parent district.

Fenced farm plot with boundary stones and a paddy field on the Vindhyan plateau near Mauganj, Madhya Pradesh

District report — Mauganj

Farmland India view

Why investors look at Mauganj

Six reasoned points, with an honest note that the new district, the old-district data and the lack of a price series are the main discounts.

Entry prices below the airport belt

Our estimated bands, marked *, sit below Rewa's city-edge band. Wide bands mean the real range for a given parcel can differ a lot, so use registered deeds nearby.

A new district headquarters

Mauganj became a district in 2023 and received treasury approval in June 2025. More offices can mean more local demand, but we found no study linking it to land prices.

A road toward Uttar Pradesh

The Devtalab–Naigarhi road was under construction in 2023 to improve links to Prayagraj and Varanasi. No later status was found, so treat it as pending.

Airport within reach

Rewa Airport opened in October 2024 in the parent district; routes have been reshuffled, so the benefit is real but not fixed.

An open buyer pool

No bar on buyers who are not farmers was found in the sources opened, so an outside buyer meets the same rule as a local, subject to the ceiling, the tribal-land check and clean title.

Clean paperwork is the edge

A buyer who reads the khasra and B-1, asks for the forest status and the diversion receipt, and confirms the post-2023 district and tehsil is ahead of one who relies on a broker's summary.

Browse reviewed land in Mauganj

Confirm title, zone and acquisition status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.

STRAIGHT TALK

Risks & challenges in Mauganj

Read these before shortlisting in Mauganj specifically.

District reorganisation and thin data

Mauganj was separated in August 2023 (Free Press Journal, August 2023). Older rate lists, profiles and deeds may name Rewa; confirm the village's current tehsil and registration office.

Forest and revenue-forest classification

About half the undivided Rewa district is recorded as forest in an old profile (industrial profile). Get the forest status of the survey number in writing and compare the khasra with the deed.

Announced is not delivered

The Devtalab–Naigarhi road had no cost or date in the 2023 report and we found no later update (India Infra Hub, September 2023). Price a parcel on today's road.

Land acquisition delays

A June 2026 review cited land acquisition as a cause of delay for Public Works Department road projects in Rewa (Free Press Journal, June 2026). Check pending acquisition notices before buying beside a road project; compensation rules for rural land were raised in April 2026 (Free Press Journal, April 2026).

Air routes in flux

Rewa–Bhopal was suspended in October 2025 and restarted under a new operator (The Hitavada, December 2025). Do not price a parcel on a route that can be withdrawn.

Diversion and premium

Change of use brings reassessment and a premium, and a landholder who does not inform the SDO can face a 50% penalty under the 2018 text of section 59 (Code Amendment Act 2018). Ask for the diversion order and the premium receipt.

Ceiling, tribal land and records

Holdings above the ceiling can be declared surplus (Supreme Court, January 2021), and a sale of tribal land without Collector permission is exposed (Supreme Court, April 2025). MP Bhulekh was not opened for this page, so compare a fresh khasra and B-1 with the deed.

Regional projects not named for Mauganj

The one rail item we found for the Rewa region, the Prayagraj–Manikpur third line, does not name Mauganj and carries no completion date (Free Press Journal, May 2025). Searches for a 2025-26 status of the Devtalab–Naigarhi road found nothing, so treat it as unconfirmed.

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Local revenue, planning & registration offices

Mutation and revenue-record matters go to the Tehsildar of the relevant tehsil; the district portal lists Mauganj, Hanumana and Naigarhi (Mauganj district portal). The Sub-Divisional Officer handles the premium and reassessment on diversion. The District Collector's office handles land acquisition notices, and the Divisional Forest Officer can state whether a survey number is forest land. Because the district is new, confirm which office holds an older record.

Sale deeds are registered by the Sub-Registrar, now also through Sampada 2.0, where guideline rates can be checked (The Statesman, October 2024). Khasra and B-1 extracts come from MP Bhulekh, which we could not open; ask each office in writing, since we did not confirm current contacts or fees.

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Can anyone buy agricultural land in Mauganj?

None of the court orders or Act texts we opened bars a buyer for not being a farmer. The limits that appear are the holding ceiling under the 1960 Ceiling Act (Supreme Court, January 2021), Collector-level permission for land held by tribal members under section 165(6) (Supreme Court, April 2025) and the FEMA bar on NRIs and OCIs (RBI Master Direction). Mauganj was formed from Rewa in August 2023, so confirm the village's tehsil and registration office with the Tehsildar.

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