Uttarakhand Bhulekh: How to Check Online (2026 Guide)

What is Uttarakhand Bhulekh?

Bhulekh (भूलेख) is the common name for the online land records of a state. For Uttarakhand, the address people use is bhulekh.uk.gov.in, which the state presents as its Devbhoomi land records service. It is the entry point to records such as the khatauni and khasra extract, and, according to secondary sources we used only to locate the portal, to village maps and mutation status.

This article is a buyer's guide to using that portal sensibly. It explains what each record is, how the pieces fit together and what to verify. Individual records have their own pages: Khatauni Uttarakhand, Bhu Naksha Uttarakhand, Dakhil Kharij Uttarakhand and Nakal Uttarakhand.

The recorded owner on Bhulekh is the person the revenue department has entered, not necessarily the person with a good title. For the difference, see how to verify land title.

The official portal and what we could confirm

We tried to open the portal at bhulekh.uk.gov.in and a second landrecords address, but both refused automated access, so we could not read the home page. We did open the Board of Revenue site at revenue.uk.gov.in, which describes the Board as head of department for revenue staff such as lekhpals and revenue inspectors, with circuit courts at Pauri and Nainital. It does not list the online land record services.

For that reason we do not list portal menu names, fees or search options as confirmed facts. When you open the portal yourself, look for the district, tehsil and village selectors and for links to the khatauni, the map and the mutation status. Use whatever labels the live portal shows.

How to look up a record, in practice

1. Open bhulekh.uk.gov.in in your browser and type the address yourself rather than following a link from a message or advert.
2. Pick the service you need (record extract, map or mutation status) from the home page.
3. Select district, tehsil and village. Names can be spelled in more than one way, so try the Hindi spelling if the English one fails.
4. Search with the khasra number if you have it, or the owner name if you do not.
5. Save a screenshot or print of the result with the date, and note the portal address shown in the browser.

We could not confirm whether a login, OTP or captcha is required, or whether a fee applies to a printed copy. Do not pay a third party for a record that the portal may provide directly. If the portal asks you for payment, check that the payment page belongs to a government domain.

Which record answers which question

Our explainer on khasra and khatauni explained describes how the numbers relate, and the mutation (dakhil kharij) guide covers mutation. For charges, see NGDRS Uttarakhand EC; for valuation, circle rate lookup in Uttarakhand; for transfer costs, stamp duty in Uttarakhand.

Hill and plains land: why records feel different

Uttarakhand has two very different land-record worlds. In the plains districts (Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, and the plains parts of Dehradun and Nainital) holdings are usually surveyed fields in a regular village layout, much like neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. In the hill districts, holdings are often small, terraced, scattered across several plots and sometimes recorded in older units. Do not assume that a record that looks tidy for a plains village will look the same for a hill village.

Area units also differ. Hill land is commonly discussed in nali and mutthi, plains land more often in bigha, biswa or hectare. Our guide to nali, mutthi and bigha in Uttarakhand explains the conversions, and you should always ask the seller and the record to state the area in the same unit before you compare them. We could not confirm from an official page which unit each online record displays by default.

A second practical difference is access. Many hill plots have no motorable road and boundaries that follow terraces, streams or tree lines rather than straight survey lines. The paper record can therefore say one thing while the ground shows another. Walk the land with the seller, a neighbour and ideally the local revenue officer (patwari or lekhpal) before you pay anything.

Buying as an outsider: check the rules first

Uttarakhand restricts the purchase of agricultural land by people who are not residents of the state, and the rules have been amended more than once. We cover them in agricultural land rules in Uttarakhand and in the state-wise agricultural land purchase rules. Read those pages before you rely on any record, because a perfectly clean online record does not make a purchase permitted.

We could not confirm the current limit, the permission process or any exemptions from an official source for this article, so we do not quote figures here. Ask the sub-registrar or the district magistrate's office what applies to your category of buyer and your land use, and get the answer in writing. A buyer who ignores the permission rules risks a sale that the state can later challenge.

Buyer checklist before you pay

• Match the seller's name, father's name and share to the khatauni and to the sale papers.
• Confirm the area in the same unit on the record, the papers and the ground.
• Check the land type on the record against your intended use, as farm, residential and forest use are treated differently.
• Look for a pending mutation or dispute remark and ask for the explanation in writing.
• Confirm the plot on the village map and walk the boundary with a neighbour present.
• Obtain an encumbrance certificate and check the circle rate before negotiating.

For the full process see our land due diligence checklist and how to verify land title. The online record is a screening tool. It supports a purchase decision but never replaces legal advice on title.

What is unconfirmed

We could not open the Uttarakhand land records portal itself (bhulekh.uk.gov.in) because our fetch tool was blocked by the site, so we could not confirm menu names, fees, login requirements or turnaround times on an official page. We also could not confirm which villages are fully digitised, which years are available online, or how often the portal is updated. If a village or plot is missing, ask the local lekhpal or the tehsil office.

Compare with other states in our guide to checking land records online in India. If anything on the live portal differs from this page, trust the portal and tell us so we can correct the article.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

• Board of Revenue, Government of Uttarakhand (opened; it describes the Board and its circuit courts and does not list the online land record services)