How to get old land documents?

I have come to the understanding that it is almost impossible to become fully informed about all of the property documents that one wishes to buy. For these kinds of situations, the government has sprung up to assist homeowners in locating historical land records in India. Let me tell you how to get old land records.

How to Get Old Record of Land?

All deals and transactions are documented somewhere, but locating a trustworthy source is usually difficult. You can visit any of the following offices to get the most recent deed details:

• The Registration Department:

  The department handles sale deeds and encumbrance certificate maintenance in addition to acting as the registration centre.

• The Revenue Department:

  The primary duties of the Revenue Department are the collection of land taxes and the maintenance of revenue records.

• Survey and Settlement Department:

  This department regularly performs surveys, collects data pertaining to land, updates the maps, and keeps track of the spatial land records, which include survey maps for villages and cities.

• Digitisation of land records:

  The Indian government started a programme to digitise land records in August 2008. The "Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme," or DILRMP for short, is the name of this initiative. Land records were therefore digitalised to create a national integrated land information system. To obtain a copy of the land record, one can go to the land department's official website and complete the necessary documents. 

This is how to find old land records.

Land documents are important to keep a track of the land history, owner records and property tax details. Your land record documents hold importance even when you apply for a loan against land or property besides buying and selling purposes. If you want to know how to get old land documents I can be of some help to you. I have recently sold my property and I needed old property documents. Anyway, here is what I did to obtain them.

If you have misplaced your property documents and want to get them now, you will have to file a complaint with the police of your area, next you will have to publish a newspaper advertisement stating the same. An undertaking will be required from the notary to make the whole process legal. Next you will have to visit the SRO and submit all these documents to apply for issuing old property documents to you from their record. 

These days you can access your property documents online as well. For example if your property was in Delhi you can check property details online by visiting the official website - DORIS -

You can make the search easier by entering either of the following details:

• Name

• Property address

• with/without registration year

• SRO LIst, Locality, registration number, registration year, booking number

• Conveyance deed/perpetual deed

I hope how to get old land documents is clear to you now.