Buying Land in Salumbar

Salumbar — land purchase legal rules

In the Ceiling Act and the part of the Tenancy Act we read, no clause limits the purchase of agricultural land to farmers. The limits that do appear sit elsewhere: who may sell (Section 42), how much one family may hold, and how the land may be used once bought.

Salumbar — district-specific notes

⚠ Salumbar was cut out of Udaipur, where the Scheduled Tribe share was 49.7% at Census 2011 (survey report, 2024); we did not find Salumbar's own share in an official table. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs release of 25 April 2018 on Rajasthan's Scheduled Areas does not mention Salumbar (April 2018), so we could not establish whether any Salumbar village is a Scheduled Area. Ask the Collector in writing before assuming either way.

⚠ Section 42(b) of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 makes a sale, gift or bequest of khatedari land by a Scheduled Caste member to a person outside that community, or by a Scheduled Tribe member to a person outside that tribe, void (Tenancy Act). The Supreme Court applied the bar to a company buyer in Aanjaney Organic Herbal, September 2012, and the Rajasthan High Court held in February 2025 that a non-SC/ST buyer cannot gain khatedari rights by adverse possession. Read the seller's community from the jamabandi before paying a deposit.

⚠ The survey report names a Jaisamand wildlife sanctuary and the 2010-11 land-use table for the parent district shows about 4,14,485 hectares of forest in 14,62,105 hectares (survey report; industrial profile). Forest Conservation Act and eco-sensitive-zone limits attach to the khasra, not to the tehsil. We found no eco-sensitive-zone notification for the sanctuary, so ask the Forest Department whether a khasra lies inside it or its zone.

⚠ The survey report describes marble, soapstone and rock phosphate belts for the former Udaipur district and does not place them by the new district. Do not assume the belts lie in Salumbar, and check the khasra and its boundary for mining leases or applications.

⚠ Building or any other non-agricultural use needs conversion. Section 90A of the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956 requires permission, and use without it exposes the holder to ejectment under section 91 or a penalty (Indian Kanoon text; the India Code copy could not be opened). For rural land the 2007 conversion rules name the officer by use and size, set a 90-day decision period (rule 9(3)) and require use within five years (rule 14(1)) (Revenue Department rules, 2019 compilation); later amendments were not read.

⚠ Section 4(1) of the Rajasthan Imposition of Ceiling on Agricultural Holding Act, 1973 sets 18 acres where assured irrigation grows two crops a year and 27 acres for one crop, with unirrigated limits by zone from 48 to 175 acres; the limit rises by a fifth for each family member beyond five, up to twice the base, and sections 6 and 17 void transfers that defeat the Act and require declarations before registration (India Code). Salumbar's ceiling zone was not found. The CGWB booklet describes red clay soils in Salumbar and Sarada, and irrigation is mostly from wells and tanks, so the unirrigated limits may apply to many parcels. The India Code text lists amendments to 2020, so ask for the current schedule.

Block groundwater: Salumbar, Sarada, Lasadia

Stage 90.34% (semi-critical), 94.06% and 91.23% (critical), 2009

The CGWB booklet gives replenishable resource and gross draft of 34.2150 and 27.8197 million cubic metres for Salumbar, 26.1623 and 22.1165 for Sarada and 11.1924 and 9.1897 for Lasadia, all as on 2009 (CGWB booklet, 2013). The parent district stood at 107.27%. Semari and Jhallara are not in the booklet.

Check: the current block category on the groundwater assessment system and the depth of a test borewell.

Soil and crops: red clay and maize

Maize 1,79,380 ha in the parent district (2010-11)

The booklet gives red clay for the Salumbar and Sarada blocks. Parent-district areas in 2010-11: maize 1,79,380 ha, wheat 55,118, oilseeds 30,406, pulses 22,831, barley 7,529 and jowar 7,477 (CGWB). The survey report says agriculture is mainly rain-fed (survey report).

Check: whether the parcel is irrigated by a well or tank, and the crop shown in the girdawari.

Marble, soapstone and phosphate belts

Parent-district belts; not placed by new district

The survey report describes pink, white and green marble belts, a 40 km soapstone belt (about half of Rajasthan's soapstone output comes from Udaipur) and proved rock phosphate reserves of 77.0 million tonnes (survey report). It does not say which belts fall in Salumbar.

Check: mining leases on or beside the khasra.

A district still settling

Notified 2023; kept in December 2024 (CONFIRM)

Records, tehsil codes and office jurisdictions moved when the district was formed, so an older jamabandi or deed may carry the Udaipur name (survey report). The 41-district count comes from Scroll.

Check: that the tehsil, village and registration office on the papers match the current district.

Asking prices

No sourced price series

Listing-site asking prices for Salumbar could not be traced to registered deals, so none is shown. The DLC rate is the only official reference and no district table was reached.

Check: registered sale deeds in the same revenue estate before negotiating.

Units and measurement

Salumbar sellers and records can use local land units that differ by tehsil, and agricultural registration was moved to hectares in December 2024 (Patrika, December 2024). Convert every quote to acres or hectares (1 hectare is about 2.47 acres) and match it to the area in the jamabandi. We did not open a revenue manual for local unit definitions.

Connectivity

How Salumbar connects — road, rail and air

No road, rail or air distance for Salumbar was found in an official or news source. The columns say what the sources do and do not contain.

Section 42 and tribal-belt titles

A sale of khatedari land by a Scheduled Tribe member to a non-member is void under section 42(b). Read the seller's community from the jamabandi and ask the Collector about any Scheduled Area status.

Tight groundwater

The Salumbar block was semi-critical and Sarada and Lasadia critical in the 2009 assessment. Test borewell depth and water before assuming irrigation or a farmhouse supply.

Forest and sanctuary overlays

The survey report names a Jaisamand wildlife sanctuary and the parent district had large forest cover. Ask the Forest Department about the khasra.

Mining leases

Marble, soapstone and phosphate belts exist in the former district. Check the khasra and its boundary for leases or applications.

New-district paperwork

Records and offices moved in 2023. Check that tehsil, village and registration office on the papers match the current district.

Thin district data

The district portal refused an automated fetch, and population, area and prices for the new boundary were not found. Many figures here are for Udaipur and are labelled so.

No sourced price series

We use no listing-site prices for Salumbar and no district DLC table was reached. Collect registered comparables before negotiating.