Want to sell land recorded in Khana Kasht? Correct Malkiyat first.
If your name appears only in Column 5 — Khana Kasht, the revenue record shows cultivation or possession, not the ownership entry on which a sale is ordinarily registered. The 2026 Section 32 directions require the ownership anomaly to be corrected first. Through a Mutation for Correction, the eligible transferee is brought into Column 4 — Malkiyat as a co-sharer against the vendor’s share. After the mutation is sanctioned and Column 4 is corrected, the sale deed can then proceed through the ordinary registration process, subject to the usual title, share, stamp-duty and registration requirements.
Khana Kasht records possession/cultivation. Paragraph 10 of the notification requires the record to be corrected before a document is registered on the basis of that entry.
Mutation for Correction is processed under Para 7.30 read with Section 37. After hearing, the transferee’s eligible share is entered in Malkiyat and the vendor’s share is reduced accordingly.
Once Column 4 reflects ownership, the seller’s title is visible in the ownership record and the sale deed may proceed in the ordinary registration workflow, subject to all other legal requirements.
The position in short
- What Khana Kasht means
- Column 5 of the Jamabandi. It records cultivation and possession. It does not confer ownership.
- What Malkiyat means
- Column 4 of the Jamabandi. It records ownership, and it is the column the registration workflow validates against.
- Who ordered the correction
- The Director, Land Records, Haryana, Panchkula, by Memo No. Kgo/138 dated 06.01.2026, with the approval of the Financial Commissioner Revenue.
- Who it was addressed to
- All Divisional Commissioners in the State, each of whom issues a notification under Section 32 of the Haryana Land Revenue Act, 1887 for estates in their own jurisdiction.
- How a correction is made
- Mutation for Correction under Para 7.30 of the Haryana Land Record Manual read with Section 37 of the Act, sanctioned only after a formal hearing.
- Can you sell after correction?
- Once the eligible ownership share is entered in Column 4, a sale deed may proceed in the ordinary registration workflow, subject to the usual legal and registration checks.
- What you become
- A co-sharer holding an undivided share in the khewat — not the exclusive owner of a specific khasra number. Partition is separate.
- What correction does not do
- It does not cure an invalid underlying transfer or automatically partition a specific khasra out of a joint khewat.
Read the original Haryana Government orders
The sale-and-correction route explained on this page is based on the State direction, the divisional Section 32 notifications and the subsequent implementation/review record. Open the scanned originals below.
What the correction actually does to the page
A mutation of correction does not create a new record. It moves an entry across the ruling — from the cultivation column into the ownership column — and reduces the seller’s share by exactly the amount transferred.
Note the two things that stay put: Shyam Lal remains shown in Column 5 as in possession, and the total of all shares in the khewat still comes to one.
This is a state-wide exercise, issued division by division
It is easy to mistake this for a local circular, because what reaches a village is a single divisional notification. The instruction behind it came from Panchkula, and it went to every division in Haryana.
Director, Land Records writes to all Divisional Commissioners
Memo No. Kgo/138 — records that sales and mortgages by co-sharers were being entered only in Column 5 across the State, and decides that all Commissioners shall exercise their authority under Section 32 to notify a Special Revision for estates in their jurisdiction where such anomalies exist. Issued with the approval of the Financial Commissioner Revenue. Endorsement Kgo/139 goes to every Deputy Commissioner in the State.
A model notification travels with the memo
The enclosure is a pro forma order with the number, date, name and division left blank, closing with By order of the Commissioner. That is why every divisional notification reads word for word the same — the operational clauses were drafted centrally.
Notification No. 574 issued
Ravi Prakash Gupta, Commissioner, Hisar Division, directs the Special Revision for the revenue estates in the attached schedule. Endorsed No. 575–586 to the Financial Commissioner Revenue, the Director Land Records, and every Deputy Commissioner and District Revenue Officer in the division.
Notification No. RA/527 issued
Rajiv Rattan, I.A.S., Divisional Commissioner, Rohtak Division, issues the same order in identical terms. Endorsement RA/528–32 forwards it to the Deputy Commissioners of Rohtak, Sonipat, Bhiwani, Jhajjar and Charkhi Dadri.
It reaches the tehsil
The Deputy Commissioner, Rohtak circulates the notification to the Tehsildars of Rohtak, Meham, Sampla and Kalanaur and the Naib Tehsildar, Lakhanmajra, and then calls for a case-level compliance report — name, village, khewat number, khata number and the number of durusti or intkaal effected.
Panchkula starts monitoring the backlog
Memo No. DLR/ARO/2026/2182–2203 calls every District Revenue Officer in Haryana to a video conference confined to two agenda items — Khana Kasht grievances, meaning all pending grievances, objections and requisite corrections, and the Digital Crop Survey e-Girdawari. Marked most urgent.
Why that last step matters to you
A notification alone can sit unimplemented for years. What changes the odds here is that district officers are being asked to report corrections case by case and answer for pending grievances at state level. If your matter is already filed, it is countable. If it is not filed, it is invisible.
The six divisions
Haryana is administered in six revenue divisions, and the Director’s memo runs to all of them. Where we hold a copy of the divisional notification, it is marked below.
The one limit that survives
Each notification covers the revenue estates listed in the schedule attached to it, not automatically every village in the division. The schedules do not travel with the circulated copies, so no website can tell you whether your estate is scheduled. Your tehsil or the office of the District Revenue Officer can.
What does not depend on any schedule: khana kasht has never conferred ownership anywhere in Haryana, and a mutation of correction to bring a genuine transferee into Column 4 is ordinary revenue procedure. The notifications standardise and prioritise a remedy that already existed.
Six clauses that decide what happens to your file
The operational instructions are identical in every division. Read here in the order they will actually bite, rather than the order they are numbered.
Correct the record before you register
Where a person presents a document under the Registration Act, 1908 while claiming to be owner on the basis of a khana kasht entry, the record shall be corrected before that document is registered. This is the clause that stops sales at the window.
Into Column 4, against your vendor
The transferee is entered as a co-sharer in the ownership column against the vendor or original owner who sold. The vendor’s share is deducted or eliminated accordingly. The transferee stays recorded in the cultivation column as “in possession”. Sanction only after a formal hearing.
Nobody can transfer what they never held
The share moved into the ownership column is strictly limited to the vendor’s actual ownership share, and under no circumstances shall total shares in a khewat exceed one. Where multiple transfers overshoot, first come first served — later transfers take effect only up to the actual available share.
No new khana-kasht-only entries
With immediate effect no mutation shall be entered or sanctioned in the Khana Kasht alone. All future transactions must be recorded directly in the ownership column as a co-sharer’s share. The old workaround is finished.
Common land is left to the courts
Where ownership is recorded as Panchayat Deh or Land, Shamilat Deh, Shamilat Patti, Jumla Malikan or Mustarka Malikan Deh, or is governed by the Punjab Village Common Land Regulation Act, no ownership entry shall be made on a khana kasht alienation. Those are left for adjudication by a competent Court or Authority.
Appeal, review, revision stay open
Any proceeding made or order passed under the notification is subject to appeal, review and revision as detailed in Chapter II of the Haryana Land Revenue Act, 1887. A correction sanctioned against your interest is not the end of the road.
Two further safeguards are built in. ¶2 requires the Record-of-Rights to be perused right back to the stage of consolidation before any correction, so an isolated fix does not create a fresh contradiction upstream. And ¶5 covers the person already shown as a co-sharer in the cultivation column — that status must be formally brought into the ownership column by the same procedure, not treated as already done.
What a corrected record is worth
The Director’s memo makes the point in a single line that is easy to miss: once revised under Section 32, the records carry the legal presumption of truth, without prejudice to any existing rights of the Government.
| Question | Name only in Column 5 | Name in Column 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Can you register a sale of the land? | Generally stopped — ¶10 requires correction first | Yes, in the ordinary course |
| Can you mortgage it for credit? | Lenders verify ownership; a possession entry rarely satisfies them | Ownership is on the record |
| What does the entry prove? | Cultivation or possession | Ownership, with the presumption of truth attaching to the revised record |
| What passes to your heirs? | The same defective position, and a harder proof problem once the vendor has died | A recorded share, succeeded by ordinary mutation |
| Can new khana-kasht-only entries still be made? | No — ¶7 stops them with immediate effect | Not applicable |
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A share in the khewat — not your khasra
This is where expectations usually break. When the correction goes through you are entered as a co-sharer in the joint khewat, holding an undivided fractional share. You are not entered as exclusive owner of the specific khasra numbers you bought and have been cultivating for years. The khewat stays intact until partition — which is exactly what Para 7.41(5)(d) of the Manual preserves, and which the notification says was never meant to stop ownership being recorded accurately.
Getting your particular field carved out of the joint holding is a separate partition proceeding. The correction gets your name into Column 4 so you can sell, mortgage or pass on the land lawfully. Partition is what converts a fraction into a boundary.
TOTAL SHARES IN ONE KHEWAT — CEILING FIXED AT 1
If four people each bought from a vendor who only ever held one half, the fourth transfer does not shrink everyone else. It takes effect only up to whatever share was still available — and if nothing was, the dispute leaves the revenue record and becomes a civil matter against the vendor.
How half of rural Haryana ended up in the wrong column
In a joint khewat, a co-sharer who wanted to sell one particular field ran into a structural problem: the khewat is kept intact until partition, so there was no clean way to show that a single khasra had changed hands. The practical answer, repeated for decades, was to leave ownership alone and record the buyer in the cultivation column instead. Possession changed on the ground. Column 4 did not move.
You will see the vocabulary of these entries in old jamabandis — bai for a sale, rehan for a mortgage, the mortgagee entered as murtahin. The notification’s preamble names the same two transactions: sales or mortgages by co-sharers in joint holdings, recorded solely in Column 5.
It worked while everything was manual and local memory filled the gaps. It stopped working when registration moved to a system that validates the seller against Column 4 and reads nothing else.
One limit worth being honest about
A correction mutation makes the record reflect a transfer that lawfully happened. It cannot make lawful a transfer that never was. If the land changed hands on a plain paper agreement, a stamp paper or possession alone, the missing link is not the jamabandi entry — it is the instrument itself, and that has to be dealt with before any correction is worth applying for.
The order of operations
Under ¶10, correcting the record comes before registering the next document — not alongside it. Attempting them in the wrong order is what produces a wasted trip to the sub-registrar.
Pull the jamabandi and trace the entry
Get the current jamabandi and the earlier ones, and find the exact year the name entered Column 5. That year tells you which transaction you are actually trying to record.
Assemble the basis of the transfer
Registered sale, gift or exchange deed, a decree, or the succession chain. ¶4 corrects against a named vendor, so the vendor and their share must both be identifiable in the record.
Apply for mutation of correction
Filed with the revenue office for the estate. Processed under Para 7.30 of the Manual read with Section 37 of the Act, with the record examined back to consolidation.
Attend the hearing
¶4 permits sanction only after a formal hearing. Vendor, co-sharers and anyone with a competing claim get their say. This is the stage where a rival transfer surfaces.
Sanction and entry in Column 4
Your share is entered in the ownership column, the vendor’s is reduced correspondingly, and Column 5 continues to show you in possession.
Then register — or then partition
With Column 4 corrected, a sale or mortgage proceeds normally. If you want your specific khasra separated from the joint khewat, that is a partition, filed separately.
Quote these five things when you follow up
District offices are reporting compliance upward in a fixed format. Giving the office the same fields it has to report saves a round trip every time.
| Field | Why it is being asked |
|---|---|
| Name | Identifies the entry in Column 5 and the vendor it is corrected against |
| Village | Fixes the revenue estate, which is what the notification schedule works on |
| Khewat number | The joint holding whose shares must total one |
| Khata number | The cultivation holding where the khana kasht entry sits |
| Durusti or intkaal number | The correction or mutation number, once one exists — this is the figure being counted at state level |
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Keep ready: jamabandi copies for the current year and the year of the disputed entry, khasra girdawari, the registered instrument or decree, any mutation register extract, identity and address proof for all parties, and the vendor’s or legal heirs’ current details — a ¶4 correction is made against a named vendor, so a vendor who has died brings their heirs into the proceeding.
Where does your case sit?
Four questions. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere — the answers only assemble a WhatsApp message you can read before you send it.
Which division is the land in?
Every division has been directed to notify a Special Revision.
Send the record details and we will tell you which column your name sits in and whether ¶8 rules the case out.
Send details on WhatsAppQuestions people actually ask at the counter
Is Khana Kasht proof of ownership in Haryana?+
No. Khana Kasht is Column 5 of the Jamabandi and records cultivation or possession. Ownership is recorded in Column 4 and changes only when a mutation is sanctioned. Long possession may support other legal claims, but it does not convert a Column 5 entry into title, and the registration system will not treat it as title.
Does this notification apply in Gurugram, or only in Hisar and Rohtak?+
The Director, Land Records directed all Divisional Commissioners in Haryana to issue the notification, and enclosed a common template for them to use. So the exercise runs state-wide, including Gurugram Division. What each division controls is the schedule of revenue estates attached to its own notification, which is where you confirm your village.
After correction, do I own my specific khasra number?+
No. You become a co-sharer holding an undivided fractional share in the khewat. The khewat stays intact until partition. If you need your particular field demarcated as yours alone, that is a separate partition proceeding.
The vendor sold more land than he owned. What happens to me?+
¶6 caps total shares in a khewat at one and applies first come, first served. Transfers are given effect in sequence up to the share actually available; a later transfer takes effect only to the extent something is left. If nothing is left, the revenue record cannot fix it and the remedy lies against the vendor.
Our khewat shows Shamilat Deh or Jumla Malikan. Can we still apply?+
Not under this notification. ¶8 expressly excludes Panchayat Deh or Land, Shamilat Deh, Shamilat Patti, Jumla Malikan and Mustarka Malikan Deh, and holdings governed by the Punjab Village Common Land Regulation Act. No ownership entry is to be made on a khana kasht alienation in those cases — they are left for a competent Court or Authority.
Can I still get a buyer entered in khana kasht the old way?+
No. ¶7 stops it with immediate effect: no mutation shall be entered or sanctioned in the Khana Kasht alone, and every future transaction must be recorded directly in the ownership column as a co-sharer’s share.
What is a durusti or intkaal number and why does the office keep asking for it?+
It is the number of the correction or mutation entry. District offices are reporting their progress upward case by case — name, village, khewat number, khata number and the durusti or intkaal count — so quoting it is the fastest way to have your matter located in the compliance list rather than treated as a fresh query.
The correction was sanctioned and it went against me. Is that final?+
No. ¶9 preserves appeal, review and revision under Chapter II of the Haryana Land Revenue Act, 1887 against anything done or ordered under the notification. Timelines matter, so note the sanction date immediately.
How long does a khana kasht correction take?+
There is no fixed statutory period. The work is marked top priority and is being reviewed at state level, which helps, but a ¶4 correction needs a formal hearing, notice to the vendor or heirs and examination of the record back to consolidation. A contested matter, or one where the vendor has died, takes materially longer than an uncontested one.
Reviewed by Advocate Sunita Tiwari
Independent Practicing Advocate, Gurugram. Bar Enrolment No. P-839A/2009. Property documentation and revenue records. This page is general information on Khana Kasht and Malkiyat entries in the Haryana Jamabandi; whether a correction mutation, a partition or a civil remedy is appropriate depends on the record and the facts of the particular holding, and should be confirmed for your case.
Send the khewat number and we will tell you which column your name is in.
District, tehsil, village, khewat and khata number, the jamabandi year, and how the land came to you. If the case falls inside ¶8, or needs a partition rather than a correction, we will say so instead of opening a file.
Khana Kasht correction mutation · registration support · partition guidance
Start on WhatsAppSources. Memo No. Kgo/138 and endorsement Kgo/139 dated 06.01.2026 (PDF), Director, Land Records, Haryana, Panchkula, addressed to all Divisional Commissioners in the State, issued with the approval of the Financial Commissioner Revenue, enclosing a model notification. Notification No. 574 dated 22.01.2026, Commissioner, Hisar Division (PDF). Notification No. RA/527 dated 27.01.2026 and implementation/review papers (PDF), including endorsement RA/528–32, district follow-up and Memo No. DLR/ARO/2026/2182–2203 dated 02.03.2026. Clause numbering on this page follows the operational instructions common to the divisional notifications. The schedules of revenue estates referred to in those notifications do not form part of the circulated copies.
Disclaimer: lawyersingurgaon.in is a legal facilitation platform that coordinates work with independent advocates. It is not a law firm, and this page is general information rather than legal advice, advertisement or solicitation. Eligibility, documents and outcomes depend on the actual record, the applicable rules, the schedule notified for the relevant division and the decision of the competent revenue authority. Verify the current position with your tehsil or the office of the District Revenue Officer before acting. Updated August 2026.