Khasra Girdawari Copy Application

When you need it

A certified or computerised copy of the khasra girdawari — the Patwari's harvest-wise inspection record showing, for each khasra number, the crop sown and the person recorded in cultivation or possession, whether as owner, tenant, mortgagee-in-possession or otherwise. Banks ask for it with a Kisan Credit Card or crop-loan application, insurers ask for it on a PMFBY claim, and it is the standard evidence of who was actually cultivating a field on a given date in a boundary or possession dispute. Punjab: apply to the Halqa Patwari through the Kanungo and the Tehsildar or Naib-Tehsildar of the tehsil in which the land lies, or request the computerised extract at the Fard Kendra of that tehsil or through jamabandi.punjab.gov.in, where recent harvests for most districts are digitised. Older entries not yet on the portal are copied from the Patwari's own register or the tehsil record room. Chandigarh has no khasra girdawari for a sector property held from the Estate Office — its title is the allotment file, not a jamabandi — but the Union Territory's retained revenue villages (Manimajra, the lal dora and phirni areas, and the villages that were never brought onto the Estate Office scheme) do carry one, kept by the Patwari of that revenue estate through the Naib-Tehsildar, Chandigarh. A girdawari entry is evidence of possession and cultivation for the harvest recorded, not proof of ownership, and does not by itself confer or transfer any title. Where an entry is wrong rather than merely needed as a copy, this is not the document — see the girdawari correction application instead.

What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.