Circle Rate Dehradun: Official Rate List and Method (2026)

What the Dehradun rate list is called and who issues it

Uttarakhand uses the term circle rate, and the document is a circle rate list (सर्किल रेट सूची) prepared sub-district by sub-district. The Dehradun Sadar list we read carries the heading of the registration sub-district Dehradun (निबंधन उप जिला देहरादून) and is signed by the Additional District Magistrate (Finance and Revenue), Dehradun; the Vikasnagar list is signed for the Member Secretary of the Valuation Committee (मूल्यांकन समिति), Dehradun. In other words a district valuation committee under the District Magistrate fixes the rates and the Registration Department (Inspector General of Registration, Uttarakhand) publishes them.

The Registration Department's site has a Circle Rates menu with one entry per district. The Dehradun District page lists 17 documents, including searchable-format lists dated 5 October 2025 for Dehradun, Rishikesh, Chakrata and Vikasnagar, the signed "Circle rate from 5 Oct 2025", the previous list from 16 February 2023, and older lists back to 2007. A notice on the home page asks officials to compare the searchable list with the signed copy and report discrepancies to headquarters, which tells you the signed PDF is the authority if the two differ.

The rate is a floor for valuation. When a sale deed is registered, the sub-registrar values the land at the higher of the deed price and the circle-rate value, and stamp duty and registration fee follow that figure. Read circle rate vs market rate for why the two diverge, and Section 50C and 56(2)(x) for the income-tax effect of a deed priced below the list.

Dehradun circle rate table: rows read from the official list (5 October 2025)

The Dehradun Sadar list is divided into urban zones. Zone I covers land along the named main roads (with rates split into a 0 to 50 metre band and a 50 to 350 metre band on each side), and Zone II (नगरीय क्षेत्र-द्वितीय) covers the rest of the municipal area excluding the 350 metre band from main roads. Zone II is the part of the list that carries an agricultural land column, headed "कृषि भूमि प्रति हेक्टेयर लाख रुपये / प्रति वर्गमीटर में" (agricultural land, in lakh rupees per hectare and in rupees per square metre). The rows below are the first twelve Zone II rows as printed.

The pair "1100 / 11000" is internally consistent: ₹1,100 lakh per hectare is ₹11 crore per hectare, and a hectare is 10,000 sq m, so the same rate is ₹11,000 per sq m. Read the pair that way and you will not double-count.

The Vikasnagar list is organised by main road rather than by zone. Its first columns are the agricultural rate in lakh rupees per hectare and then the general (non-agricultural) rate in rupees per square metre, followed by rates for flats, commercial and non-commercial construction and the two distance bands. The agricultural and general figures for the first blocks read as follows.

General notes printed with the Vikasnagar list include a depth premium above the general rate for plots close to the road (the extracted text showed bands of about 5 percent within 5 metres, 10 percent for 5 to 12 metres and 15 percent beyond, partly garbled, so verify), a rule that main-road rates apply only within the 50 metre and 350 metre bands on either side, and a threshold under which small agricultural parcels in road zones (1,000 sq m in the urban zone, 500 sq m outside it) take the listed rate. Read the notes on your sub-district's PDF before computing.

How to look up the rate, step by step

1. Open registration.uk.gov.in and use the Circle Rates menu, then Dehradun District.
2. Pick the document for your registration sub-district with the current date, for example "Dehradun Circle rate 05 Oct 2025 (Searchable Format)", "Rishikesh Circle rate 05 Oct 2025", "Chakrata Circle rate 05 Oct 2025" or "VikasNagar Circle rate 5 Oct 2025". Keep the signed "Circle rate from 5 Oct 2025" PDF for cross-checking.
3. In the Sadar list, decide whether your land lies within 350 metres of a named main road (Zone I, road-wise rows with 0 to 50 m and 50 to 350 m bands) or beyond it (Zone II, village-wise rows). In the Vikasnagar list, find the main-road block and the locality.
4. Read the column for your land class: the agricultural column (कृषि भूमि) in lakh rupees per hectare and rupees per square metre, or the general non-agricultural rate per square metre, plus construction rates if there is a building.
5. Read the general notes at the end of the list for depth premiums, band rules and parcel-size thresholds.
6. For a quick estimate, the department links an e-Valuation service ("Calculate Stamp Duty and Registration Fee") and a GIS Ratelist portal from its Online Services menu. We did not open either while writing; read their labels when you do.
7. Our state-level walkthrough is at circle rate lookup in Uttarakhand.

How to read a zone or road row

A Dehradun row names the main road, locality or revenue village (प्रमुख मार्ग / मोहल्ला / राजस्व ग्राम), gives its category letter and serial, its ward, and then the rates. The land-class columns are agricultural land (कृषि भूमि) and non-agricultural land or property (अकृषि भूमि / संपत्ति), with the non-agricultural side split into a general rate, a rate for flats in multi-storey residential buildings, a commercial building rate and a non-commercial construction rate, and further into shop, restaurant, office and other commercial categories with lintel, posh and tin-roof construction classes.

Units: non-agricultural rates are in rupees per square metre. The agricultural column is printed as a pair, lakh rupees per hectare and rupees per square metre, which are the same rate in two units. Convert your recorded area accordingly: 1 hectare = 10,000 sq m = 2.47105 acre; 1 acre = 4,046.86 sq m. Hill records may show nali and mutthi, and plains records bigha; our page on nali, mutthi and bigha in Uttarakhand gives the figures we use (a nali of about 200.7 sq m, a mutthi of about 12.5 sq m, and bigha sizes that differ between hill and plains districts). Dehradun records in the Doon valley are commonly in bigha or in square metres; take the unit from the khatauni.

The distance bands are the second trap. Land within 50 metres of a named main road takes the highest rate, land from 50 to 350 metres a lower one, and land beyond 350 metres the Zone II village rate. Where your khasra sits relative to the road is a map question; use the Bhu Naksha and, if the parcel straddles a band, ask how the list notes treat a split parcel.

How agricultural rates differ from residential rates

In the Dehradun Sadar Zone II rows we read, the agricultural figure is ₹11,000 per sq m, while the Vikasnagar road blocks show agricultural figures of ₹425 lakh and ₹390 lakh per hectare (₹4,250 and ₹3,900 per sq m) against general non-agricultural rates of ₹13,000 and ₹12,500 per sq m in the same blocks. The agricultural line is therefore a fraction of the residential line in the same place, which is why the land class in the record decides your duty base:

• Land recorded as agricultural with no change of land use is valued on the agricultural column. Read agricultural land rules in Uttarakhand as well, because the state limits who may buy agricultural land and how much.
• Land declared non-agricultural, or inside a development authority area with approved layout, takes the general or specific non-agricultural rate.
• Small agricultural parcels inside road zones may be valued at the listed (higher) rate under the parcel-size note; a parcel below the threshold does not escape the road rate because it is farmed.
• Structures are valued separately at the construction rates (lintel, posh, tin-roof classes) and added.

For a farmhouse buyer the lesson is that the attractive agricultural circle rate goes with agricultural use limits; see farmhouse rules in Uttarakhand and Himachal.

The method: turning a rate into a valuation

1. Area in the list's unit: square metres for non-agricultural land, hectares or square metres for agricultural land. Convert bigha or nali using the definition in the record.
2. Circle-rate value = area × rate for the correct land class, zone and band, plus any depth premium in the notes, plus construction value for any building.
3. Compare with the deed price. The higher figure is the base for stamp duty and registration fee.
4. Apply Uttarakhand's stamp duty and registration fee to that base. We do not print the rates here; see our Uttarakhand stamp duty calculator page and the department's e-Valuation service.

Three worked examples

Examples 1 and 2 use figures read from the official PDFs (decoded as explained above; confirm them). Example 3 uses an illustrative figure.

Example 1: 2,000 sq m of agricultural land in Zone II, Dehradun Sadar

Zone II agricultural rate as printed: ₹1,100 lakh per hectare, which is ₹11,000 per sq m. Circle-rate value = 2,000 × 11,000 = ₹2,20,00,000. Check: 2,000 sq m = 0.2 hectare, and 0.2 × ₹11,00,00,000 = ₹2,20,00,000. If the deed price is ₹2,50,00,000, duty is charged on the price; if it is ₹2,00,00,000, duty is charged on ₹2,20,00,000.

Example 2: one hectare of agricultural land in a Vikasnagar road block

Block rate as printed: ₹425 lakh per hectare. Circle-rate value for 1 hectare = ₹4,25,00,000. The same block's general non-agricultural rate is ₹13,000 per sq m, so if the land were recorded as non-agricultural the value would be 10,000 × 13,000 = ₹13,00,00,000, about three times as much. The land class in the record, not the brochure, decides which applies.

Example 3: a 400 sq m plot within 50 m of a main road (illustrative)

At an illustrative Zone I band rate of ₹50,000 per sq m the land value is ₹2,00,00,000. A 150 sq m posh-class house valued at an illustrative construction rate of ₹15,000 per sq m adds ₹22,50,000: total ₹2,22,50,000. Replace both figures with the row for your road and the construction class in the list.

Dehradun compared with neighbouring districts

Every Uttarakhand district publishes under the same Registration Department menu, with sub-district lists and the same 5 October 2025 effective date for the current revision. The practical differences are in the local unit and in whether a sub-district is organised by zone or by road.

How to use this with your document

• Pull the khatauni from Bhulekh Uttarakhand (Devbhoomi) (see khatauni in Uttarakhand) and copy the village, khasra numbers, recorded area with its unit and the land class.
• Open the current PDF for the sub-district, find the zone or road block and the village or locality row, and note whether your khasra sits within 50 m, 50 to 350 m or beyond 350 m of the named road.
• Convert the area to hectares or square metres and compute the circle-rate value, adding any depth premium and construction value.
• Write the higher of price and list value into your budget as the duty base and estimate duty and fee on our Uttarakhand stamp duty page.
• Check the deed draft against the record and the list: consideration, area, unit and khasra numbers must agree. See the land registration process and nakal in Uttarakhand.
• Ask the sub-registrar office to confirm the row and the band in writing before you fix the price.

What is unconfirmed

We read the Dehradun Sadar and Vikasnagar searchable PDFs of 5 October 2025, but the text is in a legacy font, so village names are our decoding and the mapping of figures to columns beyond the agricultural and general-rate columns was not certain enough to print. We did not read the Rishikesh or Chakrata lists, the signed consolidated PDF, the e-Valuation service or the GIS Ratelist portal. The depth-premium percentages and parcel-size thresholds in the notes were partly garbled in extraction and should be read on the PDF. The composition and procedure of the Valuation Committee are described from the signature blocks, not from a rule we opened.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

• Registration Department, Uttarakhand: home page with Circle Rates menu, e-Valuation and GIS Ratelist links
• Registration Department, Uttarakhand: Dehradun District circle rate documents (17 entries)
• Dehradun (Sadar) Circle rate 05 Oct 2025, searchable format (PDF)
• VikasNagar Circle rate 5 Oct 2025, searchable format (PDF)
• Circle rate from 5 Oct 2025, signed copy (PDF, not read by us)