HimBhoomi Jamabandi Online: Check HP Land Records Step by Step

To check your Himachal land record online, open HimBhoomi (himbhoomilmk.nic.in/viewlandrecords.aspx), choose your district, tehsil, village and jamabandi year, pick your khewat number and type the CAPTCHA. The jamabandi copy opens free, in Hindi, with every owner, share, khasra and area.

Lost the khewat number? HimBhoomi has a name search that finds it for you. This guide covers both routes, then explains every column of the copy, how to get an attested one, and what to do if an entry changes without your knowledge.

What is the Himachal jamabandi, and what does it prove?

The jamabandi is Himachal's record of rights. Village by village, it lists who owns each holding (the khewat), who cultivates each part of it (the khatauni), and every khasra with its area and land class. The village patwari keeps it, and a fresh edition is prepared every few years, which is why HimBhoomi asks you to pick a jamabandi year such as 2020 or 2015.

Between editions, changes such as inheritance, sale, gift or a court order enter through intkal (mutation) and show up in the next jamabandi and in its remarks.

What it proves: who is recorded as owner and cultivator, with what share, over which fields. What it does not prove: title on its own. Ownership comes from a registered deed, will, partition or succession. Our khasra, khatauni and jamabandi explainer covers the shared north Indian system.

How do you check your jamabandi on HimBhoomi, step by step?

1. 1

   Open the public interface

   Go to himbhoomilmk.nic.in/viewlandrecords.aspx, the page titled ROR Distribution Through Public Interface. The older lrc.hp.nic.in address no longer works.
2. 2

   District, tehsil, village

   Pick the district (12 are listed), then the tehsil, then the village. Each village shows its hadbast number in brackets, which is useful when two villages share a name.
3. 3

   Choose the jamabandi year

   Pick the latest year for today's record. Older years let you compare editions.
4. 4

   Choose jamabandi, then your number

   Select jamabandi (not shajra nasab) and search by khewat, khatauni or khasra number. Khewat is the most reliable; pick it from the list.
5. 5

   Type the CAPTCHA and press OK

   The CAPTCHA is 4 capital letters and digits with a line struck through. The copy opens in a new window, so allow pop-ups for the site.
6. 6

   Save it with the receipt number

   Each copy carries a receipt number. Save the page as a PDF and note that number; the same page lets you fetch an earlier copy again by its receipt number.

Finding your khewat by name

If you do not have a khewat number, use the name search on the same page after choosing the village and year. Type part of the owner's name (Hindi, or English with conversion) and choose whether it appears at the start, end or anywhere in the name. The results list every matching name with its khewat and khatauni numbers, and need no CAPTCHA. Search with a short, distinctive part of the name, since spellings vary.

How do you read every column of the HimBhoomi nakal?

The top of the copy shows the receipt number, hadbast number, village (mohal), jamabandi year, the area unit, and the khewat number. Next comes a paragraph listing the owners of the khewat with their shares. Then a seven-column table, one block per khatauni. The example below uses invented names.

Reading tips:

• Shares are written as parts of a total, such as "(20) भाग" out of "कुल भाग (40)". 20 of 40 is half. "भाग बराबर" means equal shares between the people named together.
• Area units are stated above the table. Newer jamabandis often use hectare-are-square metre (है-आ-सै), so 00-06-02 is 0 hectare, 6 are, 2 square metres. Some villages still use bigha-biswa. Our land unit converter does the sums.
• Kabza svayam or kasht svayam in the cultivator column means the owner holds or farms it. Someone else's name here, year after year, is worth asking about.
• Land class words such as banjar kadeem (long-fallow land) and bakhal (usually rain-fed cultivated land) matter for valuation and for disputes.

How do you get an attested copy of the jamabandi?

HimBhoomi states that its contents are informative only, and that neither NIC nor the Revenue Department is liable for typing errors. So for a court, bank, sale or registration, get an attested copy (nakal) of the jamabandi from the patwari or the tehsil. Fees are set by the state and are modest; ask at the counter.

The same offices hold the shajra (village map) and older jamabandis, and can give you a copy of the intkal behind any entry. HimBhoomi also offers shajra nasab, the family pedigree kept with the jamabandi, which is handy evidence when you inherit; see the shajra entry in our glossary. If a request stalls, an RTI usually helps, and our RTI application generator drafts one.

What goes wrong on HimBhoomi, and how do you fix it?

• The site does not load from abroad. HimBhoomi has become harder to reach from outside India. Try an Indian connection, or ask family in India.
• Wrong CAPTCHA. Only capital letters and digits are used. Ignore the line through them. A wrong answer just needs a fresh image.
• No copy opens. Your browser blocked the pop-up window. Allow pop-ups for himbhoomilmk.nic.in and try again.
• Khewat not in the list. Check you picked the latest jamabandi year. Khewat numbers can change between editions, so use the name search to find the new one.
• Status shows pending. The page tracks requests and can show a request as pending if it could not reach the tehsil's data. Come back later with your receipt number.

How do you spot a suspicious change, and who do you contact?

Compare today's copy with your last saved one. Watch for a new owner in the owners paragraph, a changed share total, a different cultivator in column 2, a khasra added or missing, and a new intkal number in remarks.

Then find out what it is. Ask the patwari for the intkal entry and the documents behind it, such as a registered deed or a death certificate. If the mutation is pending, object in writing before the revenue officer decides it. If it has been sanctioned, an appeal lies to a higher revenue officer. Our explainer on mutation, intkal and dakhil-kharij covers how that works.

Many surprises are family paperwork, such as an inheritance entered by a cousin. A deliberate fraud, though, gets harder to unwind the longer it sits.

How do NRIs manage HimBhoomi from abroad?

The record is public and free, so anyone with the village and khewat number can open it, and a trusted relative needs no power of attorney to look it up or collect an attested copy. Ask them to send the PDF with its receipt number, not just a photo.

Two Himachal rules matter for NRIs. Section 118 of the HP Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, 1972 restricts transferring land to people who are not agriculturists of the state, so think carefully before any sale, gift or lease to an outsider. And the hills make boundaries hard to verify, so keep a dated record of how your fields look. The Himachal Pradesh state page covers more risks.

How do you keep watch on your Himachal jamabandi?

Checking by hand works if you stick to it: open HimBhoomi, find the khewat, solve the CAPTCHA, save the copy and compare. Most families manage that once or twice a year, which leaves long gaps.

PlotPehra checks your HimBhoomi record for you every week: it reads the owner names listed against your khewat and flags any change, and when something looks different our team reads the full jamabandi copy (shares, khasras, area and intkal entries) before we tell you. A real person reviews each alert and explains it in English and Hindi by email and WhatsApp. We also watch the land itself in Sentinel-2 satellite images. Hill shadow and monsoon cloud can hide the ground for weeks in Himachal, and we say so in your update, while the record checks carry on. No documents and no power of attorney, ever.

Find your khewat today, save a dated copy with its receipt number, and read the remarks column every time. That is where an intkal behind your back first appears.