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Buying in Assam? Your patta shows the record — the chain behind it is what the check reads.

The records here

Your documents are in Assamese. The engine reads Assamese.

Your patta, dag records, sale deeds and the older khatian papers — read in their own language, with no translation step and no document set aside because of its script.

What the record won't tell you.

A patta does not show whether the land lies in a tribal belt or block where transfer to a non-resident requires the Deputy Commissioner's approval, whether a periodic patta has lapsed, or whether the land described still exists where the river left it. Registration records a transaction; it does not prove ownership.

If a document is missing, your Preliminary Title Scrutiny Report names it, names the check it unlocks, and names the office holding it — the Sub-Registrar's office for deeds, the Circle Officer's office for patta records.

Assam · authorities, records, checks

Title check in Assam: who keeps the record, and what to verify

In Assam the patta class decides whether land can be sold at all: annual patta land is a year-to-year grant that must be converted to periodic patta before it can be transferred, and large areas are tribal belts and blocks where land cannot move to a non-belonging buyer.

Compiled by the Property Opinion research team · last verified 23 September 2026

Who administers what

Revenue and Disaster Management Department (Circle Officer): The jamabandi (chitha), patta and mutation through the Dharitree portal.
Directorate of Land Records: Settlement records and field maps.
Sub-Registrar, Inspector General of Registration and Stamps: Registration of deeds.
GMDA and municipal bodies: Planned layouts, holding tax and urban records.
Autonomous councils (BTC, KAAC, NCHAC): Land administration inside the council areas.
Assam RERA (as notified): Registered projects and promoters.

The records your report reads

Jamabandi (chitha): The record of rights — patta and dag numbers, the pattadar's name, area and class.
Patta: The title document from settlement — periodic or annual, which decides transferability.
Mutation (namjari) order: The revenue order changing the record after a transfer.
Field map (bhu-naksha): The cadastral map of the dag.
Conversion order: The change of land class or patta class, where transfer required it.
Encumbrance certificate: The Sub-Registrar's index of registered transactions.

Registration and stamp duty

Deeds are registered under the Registration Act, 1908, with stamp duty under the Indian Stamp Act as it applies in Assam. A registered deed does not by itself change the jamabandi; the namjari order does.

Encumbrance searches

The check reads the registration index together with the Dharitree records: the deed shows what was executed, the jamabandi shows who holds the patta, and the patta class and belt status show whether the transfer was open at all.

What a title check should verify in Assam

Is the patta periodic or annual — annual patta land is a year-to-year grant that must be converted before it can be sold?
Does the jamabandi show the seller for the same dag and patta numbers as the deed, with a mutation order for every transfer?
Is the land inside a tribal belt or block or a council area, where transfer to a non-belonging buyer is restricted?
Has the land class been converted where the use changed (agricultural to homestead or commercial)?
Do the field map and the deed describe the same plot and area?
Where records run through the Dharitree services, do the online entries match the deed?

Portal names and office structures change, and the law is applied to the facts of each property. Your report cites what your own documents and the records show, and names the office holding anything that is missing. It is an AI title analysis, not a legal opinion. Read a sample title scrutiny report or see the price.

What your report shows

Every finding linked to its source

— the document and clause, verifiable by you.

The checks that passed

— what was examined and found clean, listed.

Search depth stated as a year

— "traced back to 2004," with the offices searched.

Limitations in the report

— what the record shows, and what it cannot.

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Pricing

Preliminary ₹1,999 + GST (₹2,359 all-in) — covers up to 100 pages, then ₹10 a page. The full title report is a separate ₹1,999 + GST.

FAQ — Assam

The seller has a periodic patta, not a permanent one. Is that a problem?

A periodic patta is time-bound and can lapse — a permanent patta is heritable. The difference changes what you're actually buying. The check reads the patta class and the deeds behind it; the report states what the record supports.

The land is char land — near the river.

Char land is the hardest record to rely on: the river moves, and the patta may describe land that no longer exists where it is drawn. Upload the patta, the dag record and the deeds; the report shows you what the current record supports and what it cannot.

It's the property check where you see everything it checked.

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Districts we cover in Assam

The check is the same across Assam — the record terminology on this page applies statewide. Major districts, with dedicated district pages opening as search volume builds:

Kamrup Metro (Guwahati) · Kamrup · Nagaon · Dibrugarh · Jorhat · Cachar (Silchar) · Sonitpur (Tezpur) · Tinsukia · Lakhimpur · Barpeta · Dhubri · Golaghat

Coverage is not limited to this list — if the land records office for your district issues the documents, the engine reads them.