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District guide
Buying Land in Hoshiarpur
A Doaba district with a Shivalik kandi strip: open to Indian buyers, a Punjab Land Preservation Act and forest-law checklist, the 2025 floods and no sourced per-acre price series.
3,386 sq km
Area (district portal)
15.87 lakh
Population (Census 2011)
41,067 ha
PLPA area listed (2022 survey, reported)
Open (NRIs barred)
Outsider agricultural land
*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.
PLRS — Punjab Land Records SocietyDistrict land record — Hoshiarpur
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Punjab
Sub-divisions
4 tehsils on the district portal: Hoshiarpur · Dasuya · Mukerian · Garhshankar (district portal); the Punjab Land Records Society list shows sub-tehsils including Bhunga, Tanda, Mahilpur and Talwara (PLRS list, undated); 10 development blocks (CGWB 2018): Bhunga, Dasuya, Garhshankar, Hajipur, Hoshiarpur-I, Hoshiarpur-II, Mahilpur, Mukerian, Talwara, Tanda
Key markets
Hoshiarpur city edge (Una Road, Chandigarh Road) · Dasuya Road · Hariana · Garhshankar · Bhunga · Mukerian · Tanda
Agricultural land
No residence or agriculturist bar found in the Punjab Land Reforms Act text; a holding ceiling applies; NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land (RBI, FEMA)
Demand anchors
Shivalik and kandi foothill land · the Una (Himachal Pradesh) road · Phagwara–Hoshiarpur four-lane road · Doaba position between Jalandhar and the Himachal hills
Planning authority
Confirm per village: municipal limits, a notified master plan or Town and Country Planning; the district portal's Town Planning page was not opened
Forest law
Large Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA) footprint: 41,067 ha listed under Hoshiarpur in a 2022 Forest Department survey (The Tribune, October 2022)
Rail
Not checked for this page
Size and population
3,386 sq km · 15,86,625 people (Census 2011) · 78.9% rural (district portal)
Pricing unit
Acre for farmland · kanal and marla for smaller parcels
Local units
Acre · kanal · marla (1 kanal = 20 marla; 8 kanal = 1 acre)
Land records portal
Punjab Land Records Society (PLRS) · Jamabandi · fard kendras at tehsil and sub-tehsil offices (district portal)
Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Punjab page and apply to every district within it.
Hoshiarpur — land purchase legal rules
The Act text we read limits how much land a family may hold, not who may buy. The main check is land classification: village common land (Shamlat Deh) vests in the Gram Panchayat, and a private seller cannot pass title to it.
Who can buy agricultural land? Section 4 of the Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 (Act No. 10 of 1973) caps what a person or family may hold. We found no clause in the text we read that limits the buyer by domicile or occupation; the copy is a 2005 printout, so a Punjab revenue lawyer should confirm there is no later restriction.
Ceiling limits: under Section 4(2) the permissible area is 7 hectares of two-crop irrigated land, 11 hectares of one-crop irrigated land and 20.5 hectares of barani land, with other classes capped at 21.8 hectares. A family of more than five gets one-fifth extra per additional member, for at most three members. Section 12 makes a transfer beyond the limit void (Act text, Punjab Land Records Society). A 2017 amending Bill took land bought for housing, industry, tourism and institutions outside the Act and asks the buyer to tell the Collector of the change of use within a year (Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Bill 33-PLA-2017).
Shamlat Deh — the parcel that cannot be sold: under the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961 this land vests in the Gram Panchayat, which may dispose of it only for the benefit of villagers and, under the rules, with prior government approval; the Collector decides disputes over its status. A private seller therefore cannot give a buyer title to it. Match every khasra number against the seller's current Jamabandi before paying any advance; the state reported in Tribune, June 2025 that its Easy Jamabandi portal issues free digitally signed copies with a QR code.
NRI Power of Attorney: a power-of-attorney sale does not transfer title; in Suraj Lamp & Industries v State of Haryana (Supreme Court, 2011) the Court held that only a registered deed of conveyance does, though an attorney may sign that registered deed for the owner. If the seller is abroad, read the PoA for an express power to sell and for its registration.
NRI & OCI buyers: the Reserve Bank's Master Direction under FEMA 1999 lets NRIs and OCIs buy immovable property other than agricultural land, plantation property or a farm house. That applies across India, Punjab included.
- Ceiling, not buyer class
- Ceiling: 7 / 11 / 20.5 ha
- Shamlat Deh: Panchayat land
- NRI PoA: registered deed
- NRI agri: barred (FEMA)
- Jamabandi check
Hoshiarpur — district-specific notes
The full Punjab legal framework on our state page applies to Hoshiarpur in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page. Official sources (Punjab Government, India Code, CGWB, RBI) are cited first; press reports are labelled with outlet and month. Law and policy as read in October 2026; confirm with a local advocate.
⚠ Who may buy, and the ceiling. Section 4(2) of the Punjab Land Reforms Act text hosted by the Punjab Land Records Society (PLRS copy, read October 2026) sets the permissible holding at 7 hectares of assured-irrigation land for two crops a year, 11 hectares for one crop and 20.5 hectares of barani land, with other classes capped at 21.8 hectares, and section 12 makes a transfer beyond it void. We found no clause in that text limiting who may buy. The copy lists amendments only to 1976, so confirm the current ceiling with a Punjab revenue lawyer.
⚠ Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA), 1900: the main district-specific risk. A Forest Department drone survey reported by The Tribune on 27 October 2022 covered about 1.32 lakh hectares in 498 villages and listed 41,067 ha under Hoshiarpur and 16,216 ha under Dasuya (a tehsil of the same district, so the split is probably by forest division; confirm) (The Tribune). The Act text on India Code lets the government restrict clearing land not ordinarily under cultivation, quarrying, tree cutting and permits to build in a notified area (section 4), and for specified villages even cultivation (section 5). The Supreme Court held on 21 July 2022 that land under a section 4 special order has the features of forest land under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 (SCC Online). Ask the Divisional Forest Officer and the Tehsildar whether your khasra is under such an order before paying an advance.
⚠ Delisted land is not free land. The Tribune (3 December 2025) reports that about 55,000 ha were removed from the PLPA in 2010 and that a March 2015 Union Environment Ministry communication said delisted areas in Mohali, Ropar, Nawanshahr, Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur would still be treated as forest under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 (The Tribune). On 14 September 2026 The Tribune reported a High Court order of 22 July restraining construction and transfer in 16 foothill villages near Chandigarh; the report does not name the villages or Hoshiarpur (The Tribune, September 2026). Buying title to such land is one question; building on it is another.
⚠ Farmhouses in the kandi belt are unsettled. The Punjab Cabinet approved a low-impact housing policy for eco-fragile kandi areas on about 16 November 2025: a minimum of one acre, 10% coverage on the first 4,000 sq yards and 5% on the rest, and no rentals, parties or farm stays (The Tribune, November 2025). Former foresters objected and the Supreme Court's Central Empowered Committee asked the state for details (The Tribune, December 2025). We found no final outcome, so pay no premium for a farmhouse entitlement in the foothills.
⚠ Himachal edge: Hoshiarpur borders Una and Kangra districts of Himachal Pradesh (district portal). There, Section 118 of the Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, 1972 needs state permission to transfer land to a non-agriculturist (LiveLaw, Supreme Court, 31 Jan 2023); we found no such bar in the Punjab Act text. Confirm the state of any parcel near the boundary.
⚠ NRIs and OCIs may buy immovable assets in India other than agricultural land, plantation land or a farm house, under the RBI Master Direction updated 1 September 2022 (RBI). Where the owner is abroad, insist on a registered, current power of attorney that authorises sale, because the Supreme Court held in Suraj Lamp & Industries v. State of Haryana (11 October 2011) that a power-of-attorney sale does not by itself transfer title (judgment). Shamlat Deh (village common land) vests in the gram panchayat under the 1961 Act, so a private seller cannot give title to it (India Code).
⚠ Land pooling and colonies: the Land Pooling Policy was notified in 2025 (reports give 14 May and 4 June), amended on 25 July and withdrawn by notification of 14 August 2025 (The Tribune, September 2025); The Tribune reports an optional revised policy in November 2025 and an enhanced package in April 2026, centred on the GMADA belt, with no mention of Hoshiarpur (explainer, June 2026; official text of the later versions not read). For plots in colonies, PAPRA (the 1995 plots-and-apartments Act) applies: the state dropped the registration NOC on 6 February 2024 (The Tribune), and in May 2025 it was reported to have halted registrations without an NOC after a High Court direction (The Tribune, May 2025). We have not read the order. Ask the Sub-Registrar what the specific plot needs.
Read the full Punjab land buying guide for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and NRI rules.
- Open to Indian citizens
- Holding ceiling (7 ha text)
- PLPA Sections 4 and 5
- Delisted land and FCA
- Kandi farmhouse policy
- Himachal Section 118
- NRI agri ban (FEMA)
District overview
Hoshiarpur — the Doaba and the Shivalik foothills, where forest law decides what you can do with the land
Hoshiarpur is a district of 3,386 sq km and 15,86,625 people at the 2011 Census, 78.9% of them rural, with 1,419 villages and four tehsils, in the Bist Doab region of north-east Punjab. Kangra and Una districts of Himachal Pradesh lie to the north-east, Gurdaspur to the north-west and Jalandhar and Kapurthala to the south-west (Hoshiarpur district portal). If you search for agricultural land in Hoshiarpur, you are really looking at two markets in one district: the irrigated Doaba plain around Dasuya, Mukerian, Tanda and Garhshankar, and the Shivalik foothill or kandi strip along the Una and Chandigarh roads.
The foothill strip is where the district differs from Jalandhar and Kapurthala. The Central Ground Water Board describes piedmont Kandi and Sirowal deposits of boulders, gravel, sand and clay along the Siwalik hills (CGWB aquifer report, 2018). The Forest Department's 2022 survey of land under the Punjab Land Preservation Act listed 41,067 ha under Hoshiarpur, the largest figure in its list. A farmland listing on the Una Road can therefore carry forest-law restrictions that a listing never shows, and the first job for a buyer there is to read the village's PLPA status, not the price.
We found no sourced per-acre price series for Hoshiarpur. Listing-site asking prices could not be traced to registered deals, so we publish none. Hoshiarpur was not among the 12 districts where The Tribune reported collector-rate rises of 5% to 50% by August 2025 (The Tribune, 13 Aug 2025), and the district portal's collector-rate pages for 2023-24 to 2025-26 were not opened. The nearest dated benchmark is a registered deed in the same village from the Sub-Registrar.
In August and September 2025 the Beas and the seasonal choes flooded parts of the district: a PTI report of 2 September 2025 put 111 villages as flood-affected, with Mukerian, Tanda, Garhshankar, Dasuya and Hoshiarpur subdivisions named, and about 5,971 hectares of farmland damaged (PTI via The Week). The Phagwara–Hoshiarpur four-lane road was launched in May 2025 with a two-year target (The Tribune, 24 May 2025) and the Una road is to be rebuilt (The Tribune, 6 Mar 2025); neither is confirmed delivered.
- Bist Doab
- Shivalik kandi
- PLPA
- Dasuya
- Mukerian
- Garhshankar
- Una border
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Hoshiarpur
5%
Stamp duty (2017-18 audit rate)
current rate to confirm with the Sub-Registrar
6% / 4%
Men / women, as reported
press reports, 2018 and 2020
1%
Registration fee
capped at ₹2 lakh (2017-18 audit)
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report on Punjab's revenue sector records stamp duty on a sale deed at 5% of the higher of the deed value and the collector rate, a 1% social infrastructure cess and a 1% registration fee capped at ₹2 lakh, as in force in 2017-18 (CAG report, 2019). Press reports of 2018 and 2020 put the rate at 6% for men and 4% for women, with a 2% rebate for a woman buyer that is reclaimed if the land passes to a male relative within a year (The Statesman, June 2018). We opened no official current schedule and found no report of a change in 2025 or 2026, so confirm the rate with the Sub-Registrar before budgeting.
Collector rates were raised in Patiala by up to 100% in 2024 (The Tribune, August 2024) and by 5% to 50% in 12 districts by August 2025, a list that does not include Hoshiarpur; a further statewide rise was put on hold (The Tribune, August 2025). The Hoshiarpur district portal carries collector-rate pages by year, but we could not open them, and the village-wise rate is not stated here. Look up the village rate and ask the Sub-Registrar for the current figure, particularly for kandi villages where rates and market asks can differ sharply.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Hoshiarpur
Hoshiarpur has two sub-markets, the plain and the kandi strip. We found no sourced price series for either, so the cards say what a buyer should collect.
Dasuya Road and Hariana belt
No sourced price
We found no dated per-acre price from an official or news source for the Dasuya Road, Hariana or Tanda belt, and we do not use listing-site asking prices. In the 2025 floods, 21 villages in Dasuya subdivision and 25 in Tanda were reported affected (PTI via The Week).
Check: the khasra and fard, whether the land is irrigated or Beas-side low land that flooded in 2025, and road access.
Bhunga and Garhshankar
No sourced price
No dated per-acre price was found for Bhunga or Garhshankar. Garhshankar subdivision had 24 flood-affected villages in 2025 (PTI via The Week), and CGWB put the Garhshankar block at 114% extraction on 2013 data.
Check: choe and drain lines on the map, the PLPA village list, and the current CGWB block status.
Una Road and the kandi side
No sourced price
No dated per-acre price was found for the Una Road or Chandigarh Road side. NHAI's project director said in March 2025 that the 27 km from Bajwara to the Himachal border would be rebuilt to 10 m; we found no progress report. This is the side of the district where PLPA and delisting questions are most likely to apply.
Check: PLPA Section 4 or 5 status, delisting history, slope and flood-channel position, and whether the road frontage is legal access.
Collector rates
Not read for Hoshiarpur
The district portal has collector-rate pages by year, which we could not open. Hoshiarpur was not in The Tribune's August 2025 list of 12 districts with rises. Duty is paid on the higher of the deal value and the collector rate.
Check: the village rate at the Sub-Registrar before agreeing a price.
Units: acre, kanal, marla
Punjab sells farmland by the acre and smaller parcels by the kanal or marla: 8 kanal make 1 acre and 1 kanal is 20 marla. Convert every quote to acres before comparing two offers. We give no square-yard conversion because we found no official table.
Connectivity
How Hoshiarpur connects — road, rail and air
Chandigarh, Jalandhar and Delhi are the main buyer geographies; distances here are limited to what we could source and journey times vary with road works.
By road and rail
By air
Local
For a buyer from Delhi or Chandigarh the practical question is the last leg: the Una Road and the Dasuya Road are the routes into the farmland, and neither is a finished four-lane. The Phagwara–Hoshiarpur road has a two-year target from May 2025 and we found no progress report. Read the Punjab agricultural land rules before paying an advance.
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. NHAI's balance-for-award list of 1 March 2026 does not list these roads.
00Operational
04Planned or in progress
Dates uncertain
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Hoshiarpur
A Doaba plain with a foothill strip: groundwater stress in some blocks, a forest-law overlay on the kandi side and a Beas flood history.
🌾 The Doaba plain and its crops
Hoshiarpur lies in the Bist Doab. The CGWB aquifer report (2018) lists rice and wheat as the major crops, with sugarcane, potatoes and pulses, and proposes shifting paddy to maize or soybean in some blocks such as Tanda and Mukerian to save water (CGWB aquifer report). Village-level soil data is on the Soil Health Card portal of the Union agriculture ministry, which we did not open.
- Paddy
- Wheat
- Sugarcane
- Potatoes
- Pulses
⛰️ Kandi, Shivalik and the sanctuary
CGWB describes piedmont Kandi and Sirowal deposits of boulders, gravel, sand and clay along the Siwalik foothills. The Punjab Wildlife Department lists the 382-hectare Takhni Rehmapur Wildlife Sanctuary in Hoshiarpur district, about 15 km from the city (Wildlife Department page); its page does not mention an eco-sensitive zone, so ask the Wildlife and Forest offices whether any buffer applies to a nearby khasra.
- Kandi
- Siwalik
- PLPA
- Sanctuary
🌊 The Beas, the choes and the 2025 floods
A PTI report of 2 September 2025 said 111 villages in the district were flood-affected (Mukerian 31, Tanda 25, Garhshankar 24, Dasuya 21, Hoshiarpur 10), about 5,971 hectares of farmland were damaged, and Pong dam stood at 1,391.02 ft against a 1,390 ft danger mark (PTI via The Week). The Tribune of 26 August 2025 reported the swollen Beas flooding over 35 villages, with Tanda-area and Mukerian-subdivision villages named (The Tribune). A parcel on a river terrace or beside a choe needs a flood-history check.
- Beas
- Choes
- Pong dam
- 2025 floods
💧 Groundwater and rainfall
The CGWB aquifer report for Hoshiarpur (2018, using 2013 assessment data) gives a district stage of extraction of 99%. By block it lists Tanda 168%, Hoshiarpur-I 120%, Garhshankar 114% and Dasuya 113% as over-exploited, Mukerian 90% as semi-critical and Bhunga, Hazipur, Hoshiarpur-II, Mahilpur and Talwara (63–70%) as safe, with declining water-level trends in every block and pre-monsoon depths of about 2.5 to 34 m in 2015 (CGWB). The data is old; the statewide 2024 assessment lists 115 of 153 units as over-exploited but gives no Hoshiarpur block categories (CGWB, December 2024). Rainfall is about 1,125 mm a year on the district portal, with roughly 75% falling from July to September (district portal). Check the current block category and borewell depth.
📐 Units and mandi prices
Punjab sells land by the acre, kanal and marla (8 kanal make 1 acre; 1 kanal is 20 marla). Wholesale mandi prices are published by the Union agriculture ministry's Agmarknet service, which we did not open. Crop income is modest next to the land values buyers discuss, so price a parcel on location, legal status and permitted use, not yield.
At a glance
Hoshiarpur vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Collector-rate news (Aug 2025) | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hoshiarpur | Not in the list of 12 districts with rises | No sourced per-acre price; village rates not opened |
| Jalandhar | Listed: city rates up 5%, Nurmahal up 20% | See the Jalandhar page; The Tribune, 13 Aug 2025 |
| Kapurthala | Listed among the 12 districts with 5–50% rises | See the Kapurthala page; The Tribune, 13 Aug 2025 |
| Ludhiana | Not listed; a 25–40% rise proposed, awaiting approval | See the Ludhiana page; The Tribune, 13 Aug 2025 |
Rate movements as reported by The Tribune, 13 Aug 2025; not valuations and not like-for-like. Parcel size, canal or tubewell access, road frontage and PLPA status change any figure. See the Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Ludhiana pages for the wider Doaba and Malwa markets.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Hoshiarpur
Five reasoned points, with honest notes that kandi land carries forest-law risk and that price evidence is thin.
A legally open market beside a closed one
We found no domicile or agriculturist bar in the Punjab Land Reforms Act text, while neighbouring Himachal Pradesh needs state permission to transfer land to a non-agriculturist (LiveLaw, Supreme Court, January 2023). That makes the Punjab side of the Una border the easier legal market, with a holding ceiling to respect.
Price evidence is thin
We publish no per-acre band for Hoshiarpur, so we cannot say it is cheaper than Jalandhar or Kapurthala. The Tribune's August 2025 report shows collector rates rising in both of those districts and Hoshiarpur not listed. Registered deeds will settle the question village by village.
A road corridor being rebuilt
The Phagwara–Hoshiarpur four-lane was launched in May 2025 and the Una road rebuild was announced in March 2025. Neither is confirmed finished; price today's roads, not tomorrow's.
Foothill scenery with forest-law strings
The kandi strip has the views, and also the PLPA, delisting and farmhouse-policy uncertainty. It suits buyers who will farm or hold, not those counting on building.
A clear checklist
PLPA status, jamabandi and mutation chain, ceiling, Shamlat Deh, flood history, groundwater block and the Himachal boundary make a short list. A buyer who completes it is well placed in a thinly priced market.
Confirm land class, title, flood and forest status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Hoshiarpur
Read these before shortlisting in Hoshiarpur specifically.
PLPA and forest status
Orders under Sections 4 and 5 are village-wise and can restrict clearing, cultivation or building. The Forest Department's survey listed 41,067 ha under Hoshiarpur. Get written confirmation from the Divisional Forest Officer for the khasra.
Delisted is not cleared
The Union Environment Ministry's March 2015 position, as reported, treats delisted PLPA areas as forest under the 1980 Act. A High Court order of 22 July (reported September 2026) froze construction and transfers in 16 foothill villages near Chandigarh; Hoshiarpur was not named, but the logic is similar.
Unsettled farmhouse rules
The November 2025 low-impact housing policy was challenged and queried by the Supreme Court's committee; no final outcome found. Demolitions have happened elsewhere in the kandi belt.
Floods and choes
111 villages were flood-affected in 2025 and about 5,971 ha of farmland were damaged (PTI). Check a parcel against choe lines and the 2025 inundation map, not just the jamabandi.
Over-exploited groundwater blocks
Tanda, Hoshiarpur-I, Garhshankar and Dasuya were above 100% in the 2013 assessment CGWB reported in 2018. Ask about borewell depth and whether a new tubewell is permitted.
No sourced prices
We found no sourced per-acre price series for the district, so there is no comparable to test an ask against. Collect registered comparables from the Sub-Registrar.
Announced is not delivered
The Jalandhar–Hoshiarpur NH-3 scheme was reported as under termination in August 2025, one Tanda-side package was reported scrapped, and Phagwara–Hoshiarpur has no progress report. Price what exists today.
Power of attorney, Shamlat Deh and the border
A registered, current power of attorney that authorises sale is needed where the owner is abroad; village common land vests in the panchayat, so a private seller cannot give title; and parcels at the Una or Kangra boundary may sit under Himachal law.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & forest offices
Mutation and record matters go through the Patwari and the Tehsildar of the relevant tehsil (Hoshiarpur, Dasuya, Mukerian and Garhshankar on the district portal; a notification title seen in search results mentions a Hajipur sub-tehsil within Mukerian tehsil that we did not read). Shamlat Deh and land-class questions are raised with the Patwari and Tehsildar.
Fard and jamabandi copies come through the Punjab Land Records Society: its Hoshiarpur office is at Room 235, Second Floor, District Administrative Complex, Hoshiarpur 146001, with fard kendras at tehsil and sub-tehsil offices (district portal, land records page). That page links to a plain-HTTP IP address for fard search; we did not use it and suggest asking the Patwari or fard kendra for the current online route. Sale-deed registration is done by the Sub-Registrar, who also gives the collector rate.
For PLPA, forest and wildlife questions, write to the Divisional Forest Officer (Hoshiarpur and Dasuya forest divisions are the likely offices; confirm) and, near the Takhni Rehmapur sanctuary, the Wildlife office. For layout and building permission, ask the Town and Country Planning or PUDA office for the district whether the village falls under a master plan; we did not open the district portal's Town Planning page or PUDA's master-plan list.
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COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Hoshiarpur.
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Can an outsider buy agricultural land in Hoshiarpur?
Yes, on the text we read. The Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 sets a holding ceiling (7 hectares of two-crop irrigated land, 11 hectares of one-crop irrigated land, 20.5 hectares of barani land) and we found no clause limiting who may buy; amendments after 1976 were not read. NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land under the RBI's FEMA Master Direction. Confirm both with a Punjab revenue lawyer.
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What does agricultural land cost in Hoshiarpur?
We publish no per-acre band, because listing-site asking prices could not be traced to registered deals. Hoshiarpur was not among the 12 districts where The Tribune reported collector-rate rises of 5% to 50% by August 2025, and we did not open the district's village-wise rates. Ask the Sub-Registrar for the village collector rate and recent registered deeds.
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What is the PLPA and why does it matter in Hoshiarpur?
The Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900 lets the government restrict clearing, cultivation, tree cutting and building in notified villages, and a 2022 Forest Department survey reported by The Tribune listed 41,067 ha under Hoshiarpur. Ask the Divisional Forest Officer whether your khasra is under a Section 4 or 5 order; The Tribune reported in December 2025 that delisted areas are still treated as forest under the 1980 Act.
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Did the 2025 floods affect Hoshiarpur?
Yes. A PTI report of 2 September 2025 said 111 villages were flood-affected, with Mukerian, Tanda, Garhshankar, Dasuya and Hoshiarpur subdivisions named, and about 5,971 hectares of farmland damaged. Check any low-lying or choe-side parcel against the 2025 flood extent.
Transparency
Sources and references
Law and courts
- Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 (ss. 4, 12), Punjab Land Records Society, text opened October 2026
- Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900 (ss. 3 to 5), India Code
- Narinder Singh v. Divesh Bhutani, Supreme Court, 21 Jul 2022, SCC Online report, 3 Jan 2023
- Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961, India Code
- Suraj Lamp & Industries v. State of Haryana, Supreme Court, 11 Oct 2011
- Ajay Dabra v. Pyare Ram, Supreme Court, 31 Jan 2023 (Himachal section 118), LiveLaw
Government
- About district: area, population, tehsils, villages, rainfall, Hoshiarpur district portal, opened October 2026
- Land records and fard kendras, Hoshiarpur district portal, opened October 2026
- List of tehsils and sub-tehsils, Punjab Land Records Society (undated; grouping inferred)
- Master Direction FED 12/2015-16 on immovable assets under FEMA, Reserve Bank of India, updated 1 Sep 2022
- Stamp duty chapter, Report No. 3 of 2019 (Revenue Sector, Punjab), Comptroller and Auditor General, 2019
- Aquifer mapping and management plan, Hoshiarpur, Central Ground Water Board (2013 data, published 2018)
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Punjab, 2024, Central Ground Water Board, Dec 2024
- Takhni Rehmapur Wildlife Sanctuary, Punjab Wildlife Department
- Balance for Award as on 1 Mar 2026, NHAI
News
- Drone survey of Punjab Land Preservation Act area begins, The Tribune, 27 Oct 2022
- SC panel seeks details of policy on delisted forest areas, The Tribune, 3 Dec 2025
- Post-Cabinet approval to low-impact housing policy, The Tribune, 17 Nov 2025
- Punjab tells HC no need to check old records to identify forest land, The Tribune, 14 Sep 2026
- Punjab floods: Hoshiarpur, PTI via The Week, 2 Sep 2025
- Swollen Beas hits 35 villages in Hoshiarpur, The Tribune, 26 Aug 2025
- Phagwara-Hoshiarpur four-lane project launched, The Tribune, 24 May 2025
- Hoshiarpur-Una road makes for a bumpy ride, The Tribune, 6 Mar 2025
- 4-lane highway to link Hoshiarpur-Nadaun, The Tribune, 7 Apr 2023
- Punjab highway push, land acquisition hurdles, Swarajya, 10 Aug 2025
- NOC no longer required for registration, The Tribune, 6 Feb 2024
- Govt stalls registration of plots without NOC, The Tribune, May 2025
- HC disposes of pleas against land pooling policy, The Tribune, 11 Sep 2025
- Why Punjab keeps rewriting its land pooling policy, The Tribune explainer, 24 Jun 2026
- State hikes collector rates, The Tribune, Aug 2024
- Proposals to raise collector rates put on back burner, The Tribune, 13 Aug 2025
- Punjab amends rule to bar misuse of stamp duty rebate for women, The Statesman, Jun 2018
Further reading
- Land pooling policy page, GMADA
- Groundwater assessment 2025, PIB, 18 Dec 2025
- Punjab groundwater crisis, Down To Earth, 4 Sep 2026
- Punjab Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill 2017, Punjab Vidhan Sabha
- Rajya Sabha reply on Punjab floods, Ministry of Home Affairs, 3 Dec 2025
- Land use statistics for five years, Department of Agriculture, Punjab
- Punjab monsoon 2026 rainfall report, India Meteorological Department, Chandigarh, 1 Oct 2026
- Basic Statistics of Punjab, Government of Punjab (older edition)
- Katra e-way back on track, land possession nears completion in Punjab, The Tribune
- After Katra e-way, other stalled NHAI projects also take off, The Tribune
- No clarity on plots registered in illegal colonies, The Tribune
- Punjab High Court directs state to require NOC for registration, Law Trend, March 2025
- Abolition of NOC to benefit only regularised colonies, The Tribune, Feb 2024
Data-currency note: the Census figure is from 2011; CGWB groundwater figures use 2013 assessment data; official pages we could not open (Revenue Department rate pages, the district collector-rate pages, PUDA, the district Town Planning page, Census and NHAI progress pages) are not claimed as read. Infrastructure statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly. This is a general guide, not legal advice. Report inaccuracies to wiki@farmlandindia.com.
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