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Tagged “gram-panchayat”

A raised earthen bund with a footpath runs between a field of tall green wheat and a field of leafy crops at sunset, a farmer walking along it in the distance. Papers & law7 min read खेत पर चार ताले।

Four locks on farmland: ceiling, tribal, Bhoodan and government-allotted land

None of them is about price and none shows on the field. Four legal locks on farmland in Madhya Pradesh, and how to check for them first.

3 Oct 2026
An aerial view of walled, empty plots with concrete roads on the left and green wheat fields with an irrigation channel on the right, divided by a raised earth bund. Indore8 min read नगर निगम के अंदर या बाहर?

Inside or outside municipal limits: gram panchayat or IMC

Inside IMC or in a gram panchayat: who sanctions the colony, who lets you build, who owns the pipe and who sends the bill, and how to find out before you pay.

8 Sep 2026
A laptop showing a map of coloured colony boundaries stands on a wooden desk beside an unfolded paper layout plan, a glass of chai, a set square and a pencil. Maps & plans8 min read ये रजिस्टर कैसे बना

How the Indori Zameen register was built

How the boundaries on the Indori Zameen map were placed and checked, who did the work, and why an unplaceable colony is left unmapped.

8 Sep 2026
An aerial view of patchwork farmland on the left meeting a grid of new dirt roads, half-built apartment blocks and the city spreading to the horizon on the right. Indore7 min read इंदौर का नक्शा बदल रहा है।

Indore is being redrawn: Master Plan 2035, the metro and the metropolitan region

A new master plan, a metro ring partly open, and a law that plans Indore as a region: what each changes for a plot, and where to check your own land.

8 Sep 2026
Seen from above, a standing wheat crop on one side of an earth bund and freshly walled brick plots on the other. Papers & law9 min read खेत से प्लॉट तक

Farmland to plots: what diversion changes, and what it does not

Diversion only changes what a parcel is assessed for on the revenue record. The two permissions that must follow, and which paper to ask for by date.

8 Sep 2026
An open cardboard box of old papers tied with string, on a wooden table in a sunlit living room Papers & law10 min read क़ब्ज़े के बाद

After you own it: property tax and municipal records

Who taxes your plot, why the seller stays liable until the record is changed, and what a tax receipt does and does not prove about ownership.

8 Sep 2026

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