यह सरकारी वेबसाइट नहीं है। दरें और फ़ॉर्म अधिसूचना से बदलते हैं — जिस दिन काम करें, उसी दिन आधिकारिक पोर्टल पर पुष्टि करें।
Most first-time buyers picture registry as one appointment. It is really four steps, and three of them happen before anyone reaches the sub-registrar: agreeing the value the registry will use, paying the duty, booking the slot, and then signing. Get the order wrong and you lose a day.
रजिस्ट्री एक मुलाक़ात नहीं, चार क़दम हैं — और तीन काम उप-पंजीयक कार्यालय पहुँचने से पहले के हैं।
Step 1 — Find the value the registry will use
Duty is charged on the higher of your agreed price and the government's own rate for that land, the DLC rate. Look yours up first: our guide to checking the DLC rate on e-Panjiyan shows where it sits, and DLC vs market rate explains why the two differ.
The trap: agricultural DLC is quoted per hectare or per bigha depending on the district, and irrigated and unirrigated land carry different rates on the same road. Read the unit before you multiply.
Step 2 — Work out duty, and who pays it
Stamp duty, a labour cess on the duty, and a registration fee. Rajasthan charges a lower duty where the buyer is a woman, and the concession differs again for a woman from certain categories — which is exactly the kind of clause that changes by notification, so check it on the day. Our stamp duty page sets out the structure, and the Land Records Guide estimates a total from a value you type.
Step 3 — Buy the e-stamp, then book the slot
e-Stamps are issued through the authorised channel; keep the certificate number. Anything bought off a stamp vendor with a photocopied look is worth checking on the Government of India's verification service before you sign — the state directory has it, and our fraud red-flags page covers what a forged stamp looks like.
The appointment is booked on the registration department's own portal. Take the slot only after the stamp is in hand.
Step 4 — The appointment itself
Both parties, two witnesses, identity documents, the e-stamp, the draft deed, and the papers proving the seller can sell: the jamabandi showing khatedari, the map, and a mutation trail that ends at the person signing. Biometrics are taken. The deed is executed and you leave with a receipt; the registered copy follows.
What to read before you get there: how to read a jamabandi, what khatedari means, and why mutation matters more than the deed.
Step 5, the one people forget — mutation
Registration moves the deed. It does not move the record. Until namantaran is entered, the jamabandi still shows the seller, and the next buyer will see that. Apply straight after registry and follow it until the entry appears.
Agricultural land has two extra questions
- Who may buy. Rajasthan restricts the purchase of agricultural land in ways that catch out non-agriculturist and NRI buyers — see who can buy khatedari land and the NRI rules.
- What you may build. Farmland is not a plot. Building needs conversion under section 90A or the 2007 rural rules.
A short checklist for the week before
- Jamabandi pulled fresh, in the seller's name, with no mortgage entry — see rahannama.
- Map checked against the ground, and the area agreed. Measure it: our GPS app gives a working figure.
- DLC rate noted, duty estimated, e-stamp bought.
- Deed drafted by your own advocate, not the other side's.
- Appointment booked, witnesses arranged, identity documents copied.
Sources: the Rajasthan registration and revenue departments' published process, read through the official portals listed in our state directory. Reviewed 24 September 2026. Nothing here is legal advice; take a document to an advocate before you sign it.