Goa Land Records: Form I & XIV and Survey Plans Online (2026 Guide)

At a glance

Goa's cadastral survey records are maintained under the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968. Rural and urban records are kept in different forms.

Who keeps Goa land records

Two arms of the Revenue Department share the work:

• Directorate of Settlement and Land Records. The National Portal of India describes the DSLR as responsible for the preparation and maintenance of cadastral survey records under the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968. Its services include inspection of cadastral plans and records, inspection of pre-liberation land records and communidade plans, certified copies of village maps, certified copies of Alvara, title and old cadastral plans, partition, re-survey, demarcation and land conversion. It runs Citizen Services Centres at Margao, Quepem, Canacona, Ponda and Mapusa.
• Mamlatdar and Talathi. At the taluka level, the Mamlatdar (मामलेदार) and the village Talathi (तलाठी) maintain the record of rights and process mutation entries.

Goa's history means a buyer may also meet Portuguese-era documents and communidade land, which follow their own rules. Our guide to agricultural land rules in Goa covers who can buy and what can be done with the land.

What Form I & XIV shows

Form I & XIV is a single extract that combines two registers:

• Form I is the record of rights portion. It is organised by survey number and sub-division number in a village, and shows the area, land classification and the names of occupants and others holding rights in the land. Entries for tenants or mundkars (मुंडकार) may also appear.
• Form XIV is the register of cultivators. The Collectorate citizen charter states that crop entries for the kharif and vaingon (rabi) seasons are recorded in Form XIV after the Talathi visits the field and checks the cultivation.

For a buyer, Form I tells you who holds the land, and Form XIV tells you whether anyone else is shown as cultivating it. A tenant or mundkar entry is a reason to stop and get legal advice, because such persons can have statutory rights that a sale does not remove.

Records are searched by taluka, village, survey number and sub-division. Ask the seller for these before you start, and match them with the sale deed. If you are new to reading Indian records of rights, our guide to checking land records online explains the common fields.

Survey plans and Form D

The survey plan is the cadastral sketch of a survey number and its sub-divisions, showing shape, dimensions and adjoining survey numbers. Goa Online lists an "Application for issuance of digitally signed survey plan". Reports on the 2021 Revenue Department circular describe survey plans issued as Form J.

Form D is the urban record of rights, used where a city survey has been carried out. The DSLR's services also include "Confirmation of Possession of property in City Survey". Most agricultural land is rural and recorded in Form I & XIV, but land near towns may fall under city survey, so check which register applies.

In October 2021, the Revenue Department issued a circular, citing the Goa Land Revenue (Inspection, Search and Supply of copies of Land Records) (Amendment) Rules, 2021, that computer-generated Form I & XIV, Form XV, Form D, Form J and survey plans are valid without any signature. Each copy carries an online reference number and the date and time of generation, and can be checked for authenticity on the DSLR website. Digitally signed copies continue to be issued as well.

To match the plan to the ground, use our guides on cadastral maps and land demarcation.

Step by step: getting records online

1. Collect the taluka, village, survey number and sub-division number from the seller's deed.
2. On the DSLR website, choose your taluka, then village, then survey number and sub-division to view the record and plan.
3. For an official copy, register on Goa Online and apply under "Form I and XIV" or "Application for issuance of digitally signed survey plan".
4. Download the copy and note the online reference number and generation date printed on it.
5. Check that the occupant names, area and classification in Form I match the sale deed, and that Form XIV shows no unexplained cultivator.
6. Check that the survey plan's area and boundaries match Form I and what you see on site.
7. Ask the Talathi whether any mutation or correction is pending on the survey number.

Goa Online posts maintenance notices; in early November 2026 it showed services linked to Form I & XIV, Form D, the Property Register and digitally signed survey plans as temporarily unavailable during a migration. If a service is down, try again later or apply at the Mamlatdar's office.

The 2016 Collectorate citizen charter listed a fee of Rs 5 per copy of Form I & XIV issued by the Talathi, within one day. We could not confirm the current fee for online copies or survey plans; check the amount shown on Goa Online.

Mutation after you buy

Registration of a sale deed does not change Form I & XIV by itself. The buyer must apply for mutation so that the new name is entered. The Collectorate citizen charter describes the process under Section 96 of the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968:

1. Apply to the village Talathi with details of the land, the names and addresses of adjoining owners and other interested persons, a fresh copy of Form I & XIV, and a certified copy of the sale, gift or succession document.
2. The Talathi gives an acknowledgement in Form VIII.
3. A notice in Form X invites objections from interested persons within 15 days.
4. The Circle Inspector checks the entry and it is certified by the Awal Karkun, Joint Mamlatdar or Mamlatdar; Form XII informs the parties.
5. Disputed entries go to a disputed register and are decided by the certifying officer after hearing both sides.

The charter gives a minimum of 45 days for mutation. The National Portal of India lists payment of the mutation fee as a DSLR service initiated through Form XIII. We could not confirm the current mutation fee. For the general logic, see our mutation guide.

Partition, corrections and conversion

According to the Collectorate charter:

• Partition under Section 61 of the Land Revenue Code is applied for before the Deputy Collector or SDO, with Form I & XIV already mutated in the applicant's name, an ownership document, a cadastral survey plan and a plan of the area to be divided. Notices go to co-owners, the Inspector of Survey and Land Records prepares a partition plan, and a final order is sent to the Mamlatdar and Talathi to correct the record. The charter gives a minimum of 60 days.
• Correction of entries under Section 103 also has a minimum of 60 days.
• Conversion sanad (सनद) for non-agricultural use is issued within 10 days once documents are complete, per the charter.

These timelines are from a 2016 charter; current practice may differ. If the land you are buying is a portion of a larger survey number, insist that partition is completed and reflected in Form I & XIV before you pay in full.

What to check before you rely on it

• Form I shows co-occupants who are not parties to the sale.
• A tenant or mundkar is recorded in Form I or a cultivator other than the seller in Form XIV.
• The sale is of part of a survey number and no partition has been recorded.
• The area in the survey plan differs from Form I or the deed.
• The land is communidade land or carries a pre-liberation title that has not been traced forward.
• The copy has no online reference number, or the number does not check out on the DSLR website.
• A mutation entry is pending or disputed.

Complete the rest of our land due diligence checklist and have a local advocate review the title.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

• National Portal of India: Directorate of Settlement and Land Records, Goa
• DSLR Goa: Services Provided to Citizens
• Goa Online: Form I and XIV service (accessed November 2026)
• Government of Goa: Collectorate Citizen Charter, 2016
• The Goan: Online land records are now valid for official use, 15 October 2021
• Herald Goa: Computer generated land records now valid, October 2021