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District guide
Buying Land in Shahdol
A paddy-growing, predominantly tribal district in eastern Madhya Pradesh where the seller's category and forest status come before price.
₹2–8 lakh per acre*
Estimated interior farm land*
4
Tehsils (2013 profile)
6% (safe)
Groundwater stage (2013 profile)
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 — Shahdol
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Madhya Pradesh (eastern Vindhya and Baghelkhand region; a predominantly tribal district)
Sub-divisions
The 2013 CGWB profile counted 4 tehsils (Beohari, Jaisinghnagar, Sohagpur, Jaitpur) and 5 development blocks (Beohari, Jaisinghnagar, Sohagpur, Gohparu, Burhar) (CGWB, 2013). The district portal could not be opened (automated fetch refused), so the current list was not re-checked
Key markets
Shahdol town · Beohari · Jaisinghnagar · Sohagpur · Jaitpur (tehsils in the 2013 profile)
Estimated land price*
Interior farm land about ₹2–8 lakh per acre*; town-edge and highway-frontage land about ₹10–35 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 subject to the tribal-land check (no non-farmer bar found in the sources opened); NRIs and OCIs barred under FEMA (RBI Master Direction)
Demand anchors
District headquarters town · paddy-based farming · tribal-majority district where seller category and Scheduled Area status decide most sales
Air and rail
Shahdol–Nagpur Express flagged off in October 2023 (The Hitavada, October 2023); an airport was announced the same month but no site or date was found
Size and population
5,841 sq km and 10,64,989 people (Census 2011) (CGWB, 2013)
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.
Shahdol — 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
Shahdol — 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 Shahdol 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 district portal 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.
⚠ Tribal land is the first check: the CGWB 2013 profile calls Shahdol a predominantly tribal district but does not list tribal blocks or Scheduled Area villages (CGWB, 2013). A seller who holds land as a member of a tribe the Code treats as aboriginal needs Collector-level permission to sell under section 165(6) (Supreme Court, April 2025); a Will in favour of a non-tribal needs the same permission (High Court, February 2025), and a transfer found fraudulent can be reverted under section 170B (Supreme Court, March 2019). We could not open a Scheduled Area list, so whether a given village falls in a notified area is CONFIRM with the Collector.
⚠ Forest and mining land: we did not find a forest-classification map or a list of coal or mining lease villages for Shahdol, so ask the Forest Department and the Mining Officer whether a survey number is revenue land, reserved or protected forest, or inside a lease before paying any advance. Land that appears in the revenue record as private holding can still carry forest-rights claims; ask the Tehsildar whether any claim is pending.
⚠ Ceiling: the Supreme Court quoted the 54-acre limit under the 1960 Ceiling Act in 2021 (Supreme Court, January 2021); a legal-database copy gives lower tiers for smaller families (Ceiling Act text). This remains CONFIRM-WITH-OFFICE.
⚠ 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.
- Tribal land check
- Scheduled Area CONFIRM
- Forest and mining check
- Diversion and premium
- 1960 ceiling
- NRI bar
District overview
Shahdol — a paddy-growing, predominantly tribal district in eastern Madhya Pradesh
Shahdol covers 5,841 sq km and had 10,64,989 people in the 2011 Census, according to the 2013 CGWB profile, which counts 4 tehsils and 5 blocks and calls the district predominantly tribal (CGWB, 2013).
Farming is led by paddy: the profile lists about 1,087 sq km under paddy, 241 sq km under wheat and 117 sq km under maize, with normal rainfall of about 1,131 mm. Irrigation comes from dug wells, tube wells, tanks and canals, and groundwater use was rated safe at a 6% stage of development (CGWB, 2013); the profile contains inconsistent irrigated-area and draft figures, so treat them as indicative.
The entry rules match the rest of the state, with a heavier tribal-land check on every seller. We found no guideline-rate report, no compensation award and no dated price series for Shahdol, and for roads, rail and the airport only a train service, a road tender, an airport announcement and a proposal (see Connectivity and Upcoming infrastructure).
The estimated bands on this page, marked *, are Farmland India estimates by analogy with comparable Vindhya and Baghelkhand districts, with a discount for tribal-held land, and they are wide on purpose.
- Predominantly tribal
- Paddy belt
- Eastern Vindhya
- Tribal land check
- Baghelkhand
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Shahdol
7.5%
Stamp duty (reported)
on the higher of market or transaction value
3%
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 Shahdol-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). The state-level reports above do not give a farm land figure for Shahdol.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Shahdol
Five signals from official profiles. No guideline-rate report for Shahdol and no asking-price series was found; the estimated bands on this page are marked *.
Predominantly tribal district
Seller category decides
The CGWB profile calls Shahdol a predominantly tribal district (CGWB, 2013). Collector permission under section 165(6) is the first filter on any sale by a tribal member (Supreme Court, April 2025).
Check: the seller's category and whether the village is a notified area.
Paddy-based farming
About 1,087 sq km of paddy
Paddy leads the crop list, ahead of wheat (241 sq km), maize (about 117 sq km) and pulses (CGWB, 2013). Farm land priced for paddy is usually valued below irrigated black-soil or wheat belts.
Check: irrigation source and monsoon access to the plot.
Low groundwater use
6% stage of development
The profile rates groundwater use at 6% and safe, with a gross draft of about 4,083 ham against net availability of about 63,909 ham (CGWB, 2013), but the booklet gives two different draft figures.
Check: a borewell history for the plot, not the district average.
Four tehsils, five blocks
2013 administrative map
The profile names Beohari, Jaisinghnagar, Sohagpur and Jaitpur as tehsils (CGWB, 2013). Boundaries may have changed since; we could not open the district portal.
Check: the tehsil and Sub-Registrar office for the village today.
Units: hectare, acre, sq m
Convert before comparing
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.
Check: the area in hectares on the khasra before comparing quotes.
Connectivity
How Shahdol connects — road, rail and air
Distances and travel times were not sourced for Shahdol. The items below are a train service, a road tender and an airport announcement, each labelled with its source and date.
By road
By air
By rail
The practical question is the last leg: where a parcel meets a road that is open in the monsoon and outside forest land. Airport and rail items here are announcements or proposals, not works in progress. The state rules apply to every purchase.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Announcements, proposals and tenders are not completed works; items marked CONFIRM rest on a single or dated source.
01Open or in place
03Pending or not dated
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Shahdol
A paddy-first district on the eastern Vindhya side, with very low groundwater stress and a heavy tribal-land check.
🌾 Crops and soils
The CGWB 2013 profile lists paddy as the principal crop, followed by wheat, maize, tuar, urad, til, gram and mustard, with normal rainfall of about 1,131 mm (CGWB, 2013). The Hitavada reported that officials expected the new Nagpur train link to help crop production and grain trade (The Hitavada, October 2023); that is an expectation, not a measured effect. The district industries profile and the nearest regulated mandi could not be opened or identified. Check the plot on the Soil Health Card portal.
- Paddy
- Wheat
- Maize
- Urad
- Mustard
🏞 Tribal and forest land
The profile calls the district predominantly tribal (CGWB, 2013). Land held by tribal members is protected by sections 165(6) and 170B; forest and forest-rights status must be checked separately.
- Seller category
- Section 165(6)
- Section 170B
- Forest status
⛏ Lease and mining land
We found no list of coal or other mining lease villages for Shahdol. Ask the Collector and Mining Officer whether a parcel lies in or beside a lease.
- Lease status
- Mineral rights
- Surface rights
💧 Water and groundwater
The profile reports 2,470 dug wells, 513 tube wells, 457 tanks and ponds and 76 canal structures (canals about 44 sq km). Gross annual draft is about 4,083 ham against net availability of about 63,909 ham, a 6% stage of development, rated safe (CGWB, 2013). The profile gives irrigated area as 208 sq km in one table and about 51 sq km in another. The state-wide stage of extraction was 58.40% in 2024 (CGWB, GWRA-2024); no 2024 figure for Shahdol was found.
📐 Measurement units and market prices
Court orders use survey numbers and hectares; the Ceiling Act uses acres; guideline rates for colonies are per sq m. Convert before comparing. Mandi prices for the nearest regulated market are on Agmarknet. Crop income is small beside land values at the town edge, so price a parcel on access, tribal-land status and title, not yield.
At a glance
Shahdol vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Price band* (per acre unless stated) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shahdol — town edge and highway frontage (Shahdol, Sohagpur, Beohari) | Estimated ₹10–35 lakh per acre* | Nagpur train link (Oct 2023) and a Umaria road tender (Oct 2026); no alignment or price series found; wide band |
| Shahdol — interior farm land | Estimated ₹2–8 lakh per acre* | Paddy-based farming; groundwater 6% developed (CGWB, 2013) |
| Shahdol — tribal-held and forest-edge land | Estimated ₹1.5–5 lakh per acre* | Predominantly tribal district (CGWB, 2013); buyer eligibility restricted |
| Rewa | Not estimated here | Neighbouring Vindhya region; an airport foundation was laid in February 2023 with land approved for acquisition (Infra Hub, September 2023), where Shahdol has an announcement only; see its page |
| Satna | Not estimated here | Neighbouring Vindhya region; see its page |
*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. For the Vindhya side of the state see the Rewa page and the Satna page.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Shahdol
Five reasoned points, with an honest note that tribal-land rules, paddy-based yields and the lack of price series are the main discounts.
Low entry prices
Our estimated bands, marked *, sit well below the metro belts. Wide bands mean the real range for a given parcel can differ a lot, so use registered deeds nearby.
Low groundwater stress on paper
The 2013 profile put groundwater use at 6% and safe (CGWB, 2013), which suggests room for new wells, though the booklet's draft and irrigated-area figures are inconsistent.
An open buyer pool outside tribal land
No bar on buyers who are not farmers was found in the sources opened; the limits are the ceiling, tribal-land permission and the FEMA bar on NRIs and OCIs.
A district-headquarters town
The district headquarters and four tehsil towns are the natural land markets (CGWB, 2013); we found no price series to size the premium.
Clean paperwork is the edge
A buyer who reads the khasra and B-1, asks for the seller's category, the forest status and the diversion receipt, is ahead of one who relies on a broker's summary.
Confirm title, zone and acquisition status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Shahdol
Read these before shortlisting in Shahdol specifically.
Tribal-land restrictions
The profile calls the district predominantly tribal (CGWB, 2013). A sale of tribal land without Collector permission is exposed (Supreme Court, April 2025), and a fraudulent transfer can be reversed under section 170B (Supreme Court, March 2019).
Scheduled Area status unknown
We could not open a list of Scheduled Areas, so whether a village is notified is CONFIRM with the Collector.
Forest and mining land
No forest map or lease list was found. Check the Forest Department and Mining Officer before paying.
Announcements, not works
The Shahdol airport is an October 2023 announcement and the Katni–Singrauli doubling a 2022 proposal; only the Umaria–Shahdol road has a tender (October 2026, CONFIRM). Price a parcel on today’s access (The Hitavada, October 2023; Deccan Herald, May 2022).
Old and inconsistent data
Farm and groundwater figures are from 2013 and earlier, and the profile contains inconsistent irrigated-area and draft figures (CGWB, 2013).
Diversion and premium
Change of use brings reassessment and a premium (Code Amendment Act 2018). Ask for the diversion order and the payment receipt.
Ceiling and records
Holdings above the ceiling can be declared surplus (Supreme Court, January 2021). MP Bhulekh was not opened for this page, so compare a fresh khasra and B-1 with the deed.
Tiger-reserve landscape
A May 2022 report places Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve habitat in Sidhi and Shahdol along the Katni–Singrauli line (Deccan Herald, May 2022). Parcels near forest need written forest status before any payment.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & registration offices
Mutation and revenue-record matters go to the Tehsildar of the relevant tehsil; the 2013 profile named four (CGWB, 2013) and the current list should be read on the district portal, which could not be opened. The Sub-Divisional Officer handles the premium and reassessment on diversion. The District Collector's office handles land acquisition notices, mining leases and the seller's tribal-land status, and the Forest Department states whether a survey number is forest land.
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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COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Shahdol.
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Can anyone buy agricultural land in Shahdol?
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). In a predominantly tribal district the seller's category matters most.
02 of 04
What does agricultural land cost in Shahdol?
We found no guideline-rate report or dated price series for Shahdol. Farmland India's estimate is about ₹2–8 lakh per acre for interior farm land and about ₹10–35 lakh per acre at the town edge and on highway frontage*, with tribal-held and forest-edge 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.
03 of 04
What stamp duty applies to land in Shahdol?
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.
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Is Shahdol a tribal district, and what does that mean for buyers?
The CGWB 2013 profile calls Shahdol a predominantly tribal district but lists no tribal blocks. Sale of land held by a tribal member needs Collector permission under section 165(6) (Supreme Court, April 2025). We could not open a Scheduled Area list, so confirm the village's status with the Collector.
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Sources and references
Law and courts
- Pooran Singh v. Dhaniram, Civil Appeal 3122 of 2019, Supreme Court, 14 Mar 2019: section 170B and tribal land sold to a non-tribal
- Second Appeal 2837 of 2022, MP High Court (Jabalpur), 17 Feb 2025: a Will of tribal land to a non-tribal and section 165(6)
- Bajranga v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Civil Appeal 6209 of 2010, Supreme Court, 19 Jan 2021: Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960
- Garvit Khandelwal v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Writ Appeal 200 of 2021, MP High Court (Indore), 15 Jun 2022: record corrections on diverted land
- Civil Appeals 7732-7733 of 2004, Supreme Court, 26 Aug 2008: reassessment and premium on diversion, section 59
- State of Madhya Pradesh v. Dinesh Kumar, 2025 INSC 470, Supreme Court, 8 Apr 2025: tribal land sale outside a notified area, section 165(6)
Government
- Ground Water Information Booklet, Shahdol District, Central Ground Water Board (2013)
- Master Direction FED 12/2015-16 on immovable assets under FEMA 1999, Reserve Bank of India, updated to 1 Sep 2022
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Madhya Pradesh, assessment 2024, Central Ground Water Board
- Umaria district portal, about the district (road link to Shahdol)
News
- Bhopal: 12% guideline rate hike proposed, Dainik Jagran English, 25 Mar 2026
- Madhya Pradesh guideline rate hike proposed for 2026-27, stamp duty and registration charges, Dainik Jagran English, 27 Mar 2026
- MP CM launches online portal for e-registry (Sampada 2.0), The Statesman, Oct 2024
- Chouhan flags off Shahdol-Nagpur Express, The Hitavada, 6 Oct 2023
- Conservationists object to rail line through MP tiger reserve, Deccan Herald, 22 May 2022
- How infrastructure transformation takes centre stage in Rewa division, Infra Hub, 22 Sep 2023
- Balance work of Umaria-Shahdol 2-lane road, MPRDC tender listing, Oct 2026
Further reading
- Indian Stamp (Madhya Pradesh Second Amendment) Act, 2025, notified 17 Dec 2025, TeamLease RegTech
- Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 (section 5 and section 7 text), Legitquest legal database
- Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code (Amendment) Act, 2018 (contents list shows deletion of section 172; substituted section 59), Legitquest legal database
- Indian Stamp (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Act, 2022 (Act 17 of 2022), Legitquest legal database
- Ramendra Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Supreme Court, 23 Jan 1984: family and ceiling area, sections 2(gg), 6 and 7
- No bar on tribal land sale outside notified area, Supreme Court, Lawyer E-News, 11 Apr 2025
Data-currency note: the Land Revenue Code, Registration Department, MP Bhulekh and some district portals could not be opened (automated fetches were refused), so legal points come from court orders, legal-database copies and press reports; ground-water, crop and land-use figures come from the 2013 profile of the district; rail, road and airport items come from dated news reports and a tender listing, and the MSME district profile could not be opened. News items are labelled with their month and year and change quickly. Estimated land prices are Farmland India estimates, not sourced figures. Guideline rates, stamp duty and infrastructure timelines are reported, not confirmed. This is a general guide, not legal advice. Report inaccuracies to wiki@farmlandindia.com.
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