Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister distributed new pattadar passbooks to farmers in Banaganapalle, Nandyal district, as part of the state's Mee Bhoomi-Mee Hakku land resurvey programme, with roughly 29 lakh passbooks issued statewide so far. The new passbooks carry the state emblem and are given only in villages where the land resurvey has been completed.
What this changes for a title check
For a title check on agricultural land in a village that has completed this resurvey, the pattadar passbook is now the current ownership document and should be checked against the resurveyed record rather than an older 1B or adangal extract, since the resurvey can change plot boundaries, extent, or classification recorded before it. A checker should first confirm whether the specific village has completed resurvey, since the programme is rolling out village by village and roughly 9,929 villages were still pending as of this report, meaning most of the state is not yet covered. Where resurvey is complete, the new passbook with the state emblem is the document to rely on, and any older passbook or manual record for that survey number should be treated as superseded. The programme also matters for inheritance cases, since the state has set a flat Rs 100 fee for mutations following inheritance once a passbook has been issued under this scheme, which changes the cost and process a title check would otherwise expect for updating ownership after a death in the family.