Fragmented Land (Tukda) Transactions to Be Regularised; Major Relief for Lakhs of Landholders as Mutation Entry Process Opens Up
What this means for you: Directly relevant to landholders with unregistered fragment-land documents across Maharashtra — offers a clear administrative path from unregistered sale deed to mutation and marketable 7/12 title
The State Government has given major relief to lakhs of landholders in Maharashtra who had been caught in difficulties on account of the Fragmentation (Tukdebandi) law. The Government has given the green light to regularise old land transactions involving area below the prescribed standard area (pramanbhoot kshetra), carried out up to 15 October 2024, once certain conditions are fulfilled. As a result, mutation (ferfar) entries and ownership records that had been stalled for years — on account of transfers or sub-divisions of land below the standard area — will now move forward again at speed. Owing to provisions in the "Maharashtra Prevention of Fragmentation and Consolidation of Holdings Act" , sale-purchase of land below the prescribed area had run into difficulty at many places earlier. Even where transactions had taken place, legal hurdles meant they could not be formally registered or entered as mutations in the revenue records. As a result, citizens who had paid the money and held the sale deed in hand were still unable to get the 7/12 extract entry of ownership in their name. Under this recent Government decision, lands falling within the jurisdiction of Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and other Metropolitan Region Development Authorities, as well as Special Planning Authorities, have been included. In addition, these new provisions will apply to lands notified under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, and to all areas designated for residential, commercial, industrial or other permissible use under a draft or final Regional Plan. As registration had been closed, many citizens had carried out land transactions on the basis of unregistered documents alone. An opportunity has now become available to bring all such transactions within the legal framework. For this, the concerned purchaser must file an application along with the necessary documents. Thereafter, the Revenue Department will complete the process of registering the documents and correcting the revenue records, as per the procedure prescribed under the law. In cases where a fragment (tukda) mutation had already been approved earlier but the purchaser's name was wrongly entered — or entered under "Other Rights" instead of actual ownership rights — such entries will be re-examined, and the purchaser's name will be entered under the correct right, in accordance with the amendments in the Ordinance dated 3 November 2025 . To ensure this entire process is smooth and swift, a major responsibility has been placed on the local revenue machinery. The concerned Talathi (village revenue officer) and Circle Officer are required to urgently compile information on all such fragment transactions carried out before 15 October 2024, and forward it to the Registration Department. Once verification of the relevant documents is complete, Revenue Officers have been directed to complete the entire subsequent mutation-registration process through the online system. The most important and reassuring aspect of this decision is that once such fragment land is duly registered and the owner's name is entered in the rights record (7/12), no legal restriction will thereafter remain on the further resale or transfer of that land. This will bring major financial security to ordinary purchasers across the state who, despite holding documentary ownership, had until now been deprived of their actual rights, Additional Collector Sachin Dhole has informed.
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