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District guide
Buying Land in Sangrur
Open to Indian buyers within the Punjab ceiling, with expressway works that stalled over compensation at Gharachon, tubewell-dependent farming, Ghaggar flood history and no sourced per-acre price series.
142 km
Chandigarh by road (district portal)
257 km
Delhi by road (district portal)
93,669
Tubewells, Dec 2023 (PSPCL)
2 June 2021
Malerkotla carved out
District land record — Sangrur
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Punjab
Sub-divisions
Tehsil and block lists are not on the district portal pages we opened; confirm them at the district office (Sangrur district portal)
Key markets
Sangrur city · Dhuri · Sunam · Lehragaga · Bhawanigarh · Dirba · Longowal
Demand anchors
Delhi–Amritsar–Katra works at Gharachon · paddy-wheat farm economy · one of four districts in Patiala Division
Rail
Rail links to Ludhiana and Jhakhal; most municipal towns have stations, but not Bhadaur, Bhawanigarh, Dhanaula or Longowal (district portal)
Road distances
Chandigarh 142 km · Ludhiana 80 km · Delhi 257 km, as given on the district portal; no official area or population table opened
Pricing unit
₹/acre (farmland) · ₹/sq yd (plots)
Local units
Acre (killa) · Kanal · Marla (8 kanal = 1 acre; 20 marla = 1 kanal)
Land records portal
Punjab Land Records Society; Easy Jamabandi online records and mutation, launched June 2025 (The Tribune, June 2025)
Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Punjab page and apply to every district within it.
Sangrur — 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
Sangrur — district-specific notes
The Punjab legal framework on the state page applies to Sangrur in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page.
⚠ Who may buy: on the Act text we read, Punjab sets a limit on how much land a family may hold, not on who may buy. Section 4(2) of the Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 fixes the permissible area at 7 hectares of land with assured irrigation for two crops, 11 hectares with one crop, and 20.5 hectares of barani land, with an overall cap of 21.8 hectares for mixed land and an extra allowance for families above five members; section 12 makes a transfer beyond the ceiling null and void (Act text, Punjab Land Records Society). We found no clause limiting who may buy. The Punjab Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2017, as tabled, keeps land acquired for housing, industry, tourism and institutions outside the Act and asks the buyer to notify the Collector of the change of use within one year (Punjab Vidhan Sabha, November 2017); we did not confirm the final Act text. We read the Act as printed and not every later amendment, so confirm any exemption with a Punjab revenue lawyer.
⚠ Records moved in 2021: Malerkotla was carved out of Sangrur on 2 June 2021 and is Punjab's 23rd district (Malerkotla district portal). Older Sangrur sale deeds, jamabandis and court files for villages now in Malerkotla sit under a different Deputy Commissioner and Sub-Registrar. If a village name is common to both districts, confirm the tehsil and district on the fard before you sign.
⚠ Building a farmhouse or any non-agricultural use needs change of land use (CLU) from the Punjab town and country planning authority, and colonies and plotted layouts fall under PAPRA, the 1995 plot and apartment regulation Act. An application receipt is not permission, so ask for the granted CLU order, the approved layout and the RERA registration where one applies.
⚠ Unauthorised colonies: a 2024 amendment to the 1995 plot and apartment regulation Act (PAPRA) allowed plots up to 500 sq yd to be registered without the no-objection certificate (NOC) where an agreement or power of attorney dated on or before 31 July 2024 existed (Bill 7 of 2024, PRS; The Tribune, October 2024), with a window reported to run to 31 August 2025 (The Tribune, March 2025). The High Court directed compliance with the NOC requirement in March 2025 (PTC News, March 2025) and the government stopped such registrations in May 2025 (The Tribune, May 2025). We have not read the court order or the final Act. Do not buy a plot in a layout without authority approval, and ask for the NOC in writing.
⚠ Land pooling: Punjab notified a Land Pooling Policy on 4 June 2025 and amended it on 25 July 2025 (GMADA policy page). The Tribune reports that it was withdrawn by August 2025 after protests and a High Court stay, replaced by an optional policy in November 2025 and an enhanced package in April 2026 (The Tribune, June 2026); the High Court disposed of the pleas as infructuous in September 2025 (The Tribune, September 2025). The explainer's affected areas are Greater Mohali, New Chandigarh and the Aerotropolis, and we found no list of pooled villages in Sangrur district. Ask the development authority whether a village or survey number is inside any notified scheme before paying a deposit.
⚠ Acquired land: land inside an expressway alignment is acquired under the National Highways Act and compensation disputes are common. Ask whether the khasra number appears in the NHAI acquisition notification and award before you buy parcels near a corridor. In Sangrur the Delhi–Amritsar–Katra works near Gharachon were stalled over unpaid compensation and interest, and work resumed on 21 November 2025 after a farmers' union and the administration reached an understanding (Swarajya, November 2025), so parcels beside the alignment carry dispute risk.
⚠ Forest and border rules: the Tribune's October 2022 survey of land under the Punjab Land Preservation Act lists six districts, and Sangrur is not among them (The Tribune, October 2022). The district portal lists Ludhiana, Barnala, Patiala and Fatehabad in Haryana as neighbours and no border with Pakistan (Sangrur district portal), so we expect the border-fence rules not to apply, but we did not check for any local notification; ask for a written status for the survey number. NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land, plantation land or a farmhouse under the RBI Master Direction on immovable property (Reserve Bank of India), so this page is not a route for them; they may inherit it. See the NRI land guide.
Read the Punjab state guide for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and NRI rules, and the state-wise land law guides for how the rules differ across our corridor states.
- PAPRA 1995
- CLU required
- Ceiling 7 / 11 / 20.5 ha
- Malerkotla split 2021
- Expressway acquisition
District overview
Sangrur — a Malwa paddy-wheat district on the Delhi–Amritsar–Katra line, smaller since Malerkotla was carved out
Buying land in Sangrur means buying farmland on the Malwa plain. Malerkotla became a separate district on 2 June 2021, carved out of Sangrur (Malerkotla district portal). Sangrur is one of four districts in Patiala Division and borders Ludhiana, Barnala, Patiala and, in Haryana, Fatehabad; the district portal gives road distances of 142 km to Chandigarh, 80 km to Ludhiana and 257 km to Delhi (Sangrur district portal). We opened no official area, population or tehsil table for the present district. It is a tier C district on our keyword map, so this page is written for agricultural land buyers who already have Sangrur in mind.
The land is intensively irrigated and heavily cropped. The ICAR-CRIDA contingency plan, written before the split, gives rice on 267,000 hectares and wheat on 286,000 hectares of a 311,000-hectare net sown area, with a cropping intensity of 198% and light sandy (48%) and sandy loam (52%) soils; tubewells and wells irrigate 292,000 hectares and canals 19,000 (ICAR-CRIDA Sangrur plan). The source gives its reference year as 2008-09 in one place and 2009-10 in another, and its figures include the area now in Malerkotla. For a buyer, water is the first question, ahead of road access.
We publish no per-acre price for Sangrur, because listing-site asks could not be traced to registered deals. The Tribune listed Sangrur among 12 districts where collector rates rose by 5% to 50% by August 2025, without a district figure (The Tribune, August 2025). The main land catalyst is the Delhi–Amritsar–Katra Expressway, whose Sangrur works resumed in November 2025 after a compensation dispute; the Sirhind–Sehna corridor was before the Supreme Court over a canal bridge in November 2024, and we could not confirm that it crosses Sangrur.
- Sangrur
- Dhuri
- Sunam
- Lehragaga
- Malwa belt
- Expressway corridor
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in Sangrur
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). The Tribune says an earlier 3% cess was waived in July 2017 (The Tribune, February 2020), and press reports of 2018 and 2020 put the rate at 6% for men and 4% for women (The Statesman, June 2018). We opened no official current rate schedule and found no report of a change in 2025 or 2026, so treat these as the last published figures and confirm the current rate with the Sub-Registrar before budgeting.
Collector rates matter as much as the duty rate, and duty follows the higher of the deal value and the collector rate. The Tribune listed Sangrur among 12 districts with rises of 5% to 50% by August 2025 and reported that a further statewide rise was put on hold (The Tribune, August 2025); it gave no Sangrur figure, and we found no village-wise list, so look up the village before pricing an offer. A woman buying in her own name gets a 2% rebate on stamp duty, or 1% on a joint registration, and a 2018 amendment reclaims it if the land passes to a male relative within a year (The Statesman, June 2018). The state also waived 2.25% in extra duty and fees for March 2023 only (The Tribune, March 2023), which shows that these charges move by notification.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in Sangrur
A thin market with no sourced price series, so the cards give dated facts and the checks that matter.
Prices: no sourced series
No per-acre band published
Listing-site asks for Sangrur villages could not be traced to registered deals, so we publish none. Use registered deeds and the village collector rate instead.
Check: registered sale deeds for the village, road frontage, and whether the parcel is close to the expressway alignment.
Water cost: tubewells and power
93,669 tubewells in the district (December 2023)
A PSPCL report cited by The Tribune in December 2023 counted 93,669 tubewells in Sangrur, the fourth-highest in the state, and said Sangrur farmers use 17 BHP motors, the largest in the state with Barnala. Power subsidy reaches about ₹20,000 an acre in low-water areas of Sangrur, Barnala and Patiala (The Tribune, December 2023).
Check: borewell depth and the pump size in use on the parcel, which show how deep the water has gone.
Expressway land: Gharachon
Work resumed 21 November 2025
Swarajya reported that work resumed on a half-kilometre stretch near Gharachon after a farmers' union and NHAI agreed to clear unpaid compensation and interest for 2020 to 2023 within ten days, with a minor dispute left at Saroud in Malerkotla (Swarajya, November 2025). The report gives no per-acre rate.
Check: whether the khasra number is in the acquisition award and whether compensation and interest were paid.
Collector rates to check
Sangrur in the 5% to 50% group, August 2025
The Tribune listed Sangrur among 12 districts where collector rates rose by 5% to 50% (13 August 2025) and gave no percentage for it. We found no published Sangrur village rate.
Check: the current village rate with the Sub-Registrar, because stamp duty follows the higher of the deal value and the collector rate.
Units: acre, kanal, marla
Punjab farmland is sold by the acre (also called a killa), and small plots by the kanal, marla or square yard. We use 8 kanal to an acre and 20 marla to a kanal, as in our Punjab state guide, and opened no official conversion table. The fard and jamabandi show kanal-marla, so convert every quote to acres before comparing two offers.
Connectivity
How Sangrur connects — road, rail and air
Sangrur sits inland on the Malwa plain, with the expressway still unfinished. Only distances the district portals give are shown; we route-checked none.
By road
By air
By rail & metro
Sangrur is a district to reach by road, and the practical question is access from the proposed expressway interchanges to a parcel. Check the NHAI interchange locations before paying a premium for expressway proximity. Full Punjab rules for buyers from outside the state: Punjab state guide and the state-wise land law guides.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Announced timelines are not guaranteed, and items marked confirm rest on a single or old report.
00Operational corridors
02In progress or pending
Agriculture & terrain
Soil, crops & water in Sangrur
A light-sandy and sandy-loam paddy-wheat district where tubewells carry the irrigation.
🌾 Malwa plain (Sangrur, Dhuri, Sunam, Lehragaga)
The ICAR-CRIDA plan (reference year given as 2008-09 and 2009-10 in the source, and written before Malerkotla was carved out, so figures include it) gives light sandy soil on 173,700 hectares (48%) and sandy loam on 187,700 hectares (52%), rice on 267,000 hectares and wheat on 286,000 hectares. Net sown area is 311,000 hectares and cropping intensity 198%. Source: ICAR-CRIDA Sangrur plan.
- Paddy
- Wheat
- Cotton
- Sandy loam
💧 Tubewell irrigation
The same plan counts 292,000 hectares irrigated by tubewells and wells and 19,000 by canals. The district portal gives average annual rainfall of about 590 mm, from roughly 490 mm at Sunam to 670 mm at Malerkotla (Sangrur district portal). A PSPCL report cited by The Tribune in December 2023 said Sangrur farmers use 17 BHP motors, the largest in the state alongside Barnala (The Tribune, December 2023).
- Tubewells
- 17 BHP motors
- Rainfall ~590 mm
🌊 Ghaggar floods
On 9 July 2023 officials said the Ghaggar's water would flow downstream towards Patiala and Sangrur (The Tribune, July 2023), and on 15 July The Tribune reported that the river had "wreaked havoc" in Sangrur (The Tribune, July 2023). For the 2025 floods we have only state figures: the Ministry of Home Affairs told the Rajya Sabha that 40 people died and 14,065 houses were damaged, as reported by Punjab to 27 November 2025, without naming districts (MHA reply, December 2025).
- Ghaggar
- 2023 floods
- Flood history
💧 Water & groundwater
Statewide, the CGWB 2024 assessment puts extraction at 156.87% of the recharge available, with 115 of 153 assessment units over-exploited (CGWB, December 2024), and the PIB reports 156.36% for the 2025 assessment (PIB, December 2025). We did not find a Sangrur block table, so check the block category on CGWB and the borewell depth in the village before assuming irrigation.
📐 Measurement units
Punjab land units: 1 acre (killa) = 8 kanal and 1 kanal = 20 marla, as used on our Punjab state guide; we opened no official conversion table. Convert every quote to acres before comparing two offers, and read the kanal-marla figures on the fard.
At a glance
Sangrur vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Collector-rate movement* | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sangrur | In the 5–50% group of 12 districts (August 2025); no district figure | The Tribune, August 2025 |
| Patiala | Up to 100% in places (August 2024); no further revision proposed | The Tribune, August 2025; see the Patiala page |
| Malerkotla | In the same 12-district group (August 2025) | The Tribune, August 2025; see the Malerkotla page |
| Barnala | In the same 12-district group (August 2025) | The Tribune, August 2025; see the Barnala page |
*Collector rates are the floor for stamp duty, not market prices, and the figures are not like-for-like. We publish no per-acre price series for any of these districts. See the Patiala page for the nearest tier B district.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at Sangrur
Four reasoned points and one caution: price evidence is thin and the main catalyst is unfinished.
A corridor district in the middle of Punjab
Work on the Delhi–Amritsar–Katra Expressway reached Gharachon in Sangrur, where it resumed in November 2025 after a compensation dispute. If the expressway opens, parcels near interchanges are the ones to watch; if it does not, the land is still a working farm. We could not confirm that the Sirhind–Sehna corridor crosses the district.
Collector rates already moving
Sangrur was in the group of 12 districts where collector rates rose by 5% to 50% by August 2025. The duty base has therefore moved, though we have no district figure, which makes the village rate the first thing to read.
A clear-cut land record trail
Malerkotla has been a separate district since 2 June 2021, so a buyer can check the district and tehsil on the fard and avoid the old Sangrur-wide files. That helps title checks, but only if the fard is read carefully.
Irrigation that exists, with a water bill to match
Tubewells carry most of the irrigation and cropping intensity is near 200% in the CRIDA plan, which supports farm income, but groundwater stress is the long-term cost. Price the borewell, not just the soil.
A market that rewards paperwork
With CLU, expressway acquisition, flood and collector-rate questions all parcel-specific, a buyer who documents each one is better placed than one relying on a broker summary.
Confirm CLU, flood, acquisition and collector-rate status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India’s review.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in Sangrur
Read these before shortlisting in Sangrur specifically.
Compensation disputes beside the expressway
Work at Gharachon stalled over unpaid compensation and interest and resumed in November 2025. Land beside the alignment can sit in unresolved acquisition or protest zones.
Ghaggar flooding
The Tribune reported on 15 July 2023 that the Ghaggar "wreaked havoc" in Sangrur. Ask for flood history and check the survey number against the river course.
Stressed groundwater
Statewide, 115 of 153 assessment units are over-exploited (CGWB 2024), and Sangrur farmers use the largest pump motors in the state (The Tribune, December 2023). Check borewell depth and the block category.
District-boundary change
Malerkotla was carved out on 2 June 2021; older records and court files may sit in the other district. Confirm the district, tehsil and Sub-Registrar on the fard.
CLU and unauthorised colonies
Farmhouse-ready labels do not prove CLU. Ask for the CLU order and for NOC and layout approval on any plot.
Announced is not delivered
The Tribune said in August 2024 that the expressway was held up by land acquisition, and we found no completion date. The Sirhind–Sehna corridor had no status after November 2024. Price on what is open.
No sourced price series
Listing-site asks could not be traced to registered deals. Collect registered comparables before negotiating.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & development offices
Mutation and revenue-record matters go through the Tehsildar of the relevant tehsil. CLU and layout approval go through the Punjab town and country planning authority, and sale-deed registration is handled by the local Sub-Registrar. Easy Jamabandi, launched in June 2025, offers online records, mutation and correction requests (The Tribune, June 2025); the Sangrur district portal we opened gave no tehsil list or collector-rate page, so ask the Sub-Registrar for the village rate.
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COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in Sangrur.
Visit full wiki01 of 04
Can an outsider buy agricultural land in Sangrur?
Yes, on the texts we read. The Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 caps what a family may hold (7 hectares of two-crop irrigated land, 11 hectares of one-crop irrigated land, 20.5 hectares of barani land), but we found no residence or non-agriculturist bar. NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land under the RBI's FEMA Master Direction. We read no amendments, so confirm any exemption with a Punjab revenue lawyer.
02 of 04
What does agricultural land cost in Sangrur?
We publish no per-acre band, because listing-site asking prices could not be traced to registered deals. The one dated benchmark is a press report: The Tribune listed Sangrur among 12 districts where collector rates rose by 5% to 50% by August 2025, without a district figure. Check the village rate with the Sub-Registrar.
03 of 04
What stamp duty applies to land in Sangrur?
The last published figures we found are 5% stamp duty, a 1% social infrastructure cess and a 1% registration fee capped at ₹2 lakh (CAG report, 2017-18 data), and press reports of 6% for men and 4% for women. We opened no current official schedule, so confirm the rate with the Sub-Registrar. Duty follows the higher of the deal value and the collector rate.
04 of 04
Which villages moved to Malerkotla in 2021?
We found no village list. Malerkotla was carved out of Sangrur on 2 June 2021 (Malerkotla district portal), so older Sangrur deeds and records for some villages may sit under the new district. Confirm the district, tehsil and Sub-Registrar on the fard before you sign.
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 Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2017, Punjab Vidhan Sabha, 29 Nov 2017
- Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2024 (Bill 7), PRS Legislative Research, 31 Aug 2024
Government
- Master Direction FED 12/2015-16 on immovable property under FEMA, Reserve Bank of India, updated 1 Sep 2022
- Sangrur district page (neighbours, distances, rail, rainfall), Sangrur district portal, opened October 2026
- About district, Malerkotla district portal, opened October 2026
- Stamp duty chapter, Report No. 3 of 2019 (Revenue Sector, Punjab), Comptroller and Auditor General, 2019
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Punjab, 2024, Central Ground Water Board, December 2024
- Groundwater resource assessment 2025, PIB, 18 Dec 2025
- District agriculture contingency plan, Sangrur, ICAR-CRIDA
- Land pooling policy page, GMADA, opened October 2026
- Rajya Sabha reply on Punjab floods, Ministry of Home Affairs, 3 Dec 2025
News
- Work resumes on Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway in Sangrur, Swarajya, 21 Nov 2025
- What NHAI's expressway travel-time targets really mean, Business Today, 8 Sep 2026
- Barring Punjab, Delhi-Katra e-way almost complete in most states, The Tribune, 23 Aug 2024
- Farmers' agitation delays land acquisition for Delhi-Katra expressway in Malerkotla district, The Tribune, 15 Feb 2023
- NHAI moves top court over SYL canal bridge, The Tribune, 2 Nov 2024
- Very high density of tubewells leads to fall in water table, The Tribune, 7 Dec 2023
- Ghaggar, Satluj in spate, The Tribune, 9 Jul 2023
- Patiala, Moga, Ludhiana among 15 worst flood-hit districts, The Tribune, 15 Jul 2023
- Proposals to raise collector rates put on back burner, The Tribune, 13 Aug 2025
- Drone survey of Punjab Land Preservation Act area begins, The Tribune, 27 Oct 2022
- Government to impose 1% cess on registration, The Tribune, 8 Feb 2020
- Punjab amends rule to bar misuse of stamp duty rebate for women, The Statesman, 18 Jun 2018
- Punjab announces 2.25% exemption in stamp duty, The Tribune, 2 Mar 2023
- Now, NOC not needed to register land deeds, The Tribune, 25 Oct 2024
- Plots can be registered without NOC till 31 August, The Tribune, 1 Mar 2025
- High Court halts plot registrations without mandatory NOC, PTC News, 20 Mar 2025
- Government stalls registration of plots without NOC, The Tribune, 13 May 2025
- High Court disposes of pleas against the land pooling policy as infructuous, The Tribune, 11 Sep 2025
- Why Punjab keeps rewriting its land pooling policy, The Tribune, June 2026
- Government rolls out Easy Jamabandi portal, The Tribune, 13 Jun 2025
- Chandigarh airport named after Bhagat Singh, The Tribune, 28 Sep 2022
Further reading
- Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961, India Code
- Suraj Lamp and Industries v State of Haryana, Supreme Court, 11 Oct 2011: a power-of-attorney sale does not transfer title
- Land use statistics for five years, Punjab Department of Agriculture
Data-currency note: crop and irrigation figures come from a district plan written before the 2021 split and with a reference year of 2008-09 or 2009-10; groundwater figures are state-level; the stamp-duty figures are the last published ones we found, and no official current schedule or village collector-rate list opened for us. 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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