Ente Bhoomi Kerala: Check Land Records and Thandaper Online

To check Kerala land records online, use Ente Bhoomi (entebhoomi.kerala.gov.in) if your village has been digitally resurveyed: its public digital survey map shows your parcel's area, land type and ULPIN, and a citizen login shows the owner details. For land tax receipts, a thandaper copy, the BTR and online pokkuvaravu, use Revenue e-Services (revenue.kerala.gov.in).

Kerala is in the middle of a big change. The state is resurveying land digitally, village by village, and moving services to Ente Bhoomi as it goes. This guide explains which portal to use when, what each record shows, and how to catch a change to your land early.

What are Kerala's land records, and what do they prove?

Kerala does not have a single "record of rights" printout like a 7/12 or jamabandi. Instead, the revenue picture of your land is spread across a few registers at the village office:

• The thandaper register: your holding account, listing the land held in your name. Its number is on your tax receipt.
• The Basic Tax Register (BTR): the village's register of land by survey number, with its classification, such as wet land or garden land.
• The land tax receipt: everyday proof that tax on the land is paid in a named person's thandaper.
• The survey records: the FMB sketch (field measurement book) and, after resurvey, the new digital parcel map.

What they prove: what the revenue department records about your land and who pays tax on it. What they do not prove: title. Ownership comes from your registered title deed, partition deed, will or succession. Your encumbrance certificate from the registration department shows deeds registered against the land.

How do you check land details on Ente Bhoomi?

Ente Bhoomi describes itself as the citizen portal of Kerala's Integrated Land Information and Management System, joining the Revenue, Registration and Survey departments. Its services are available in villages where the digital survey is ongoing or completed, and some only where it is complete.

The public digital survey map (no login)

1. 1

   Open the digital survey map

   Go to entebhoomi.kerala.gov.in and open the Digital Survey Map, or Map view. Switch the language to English if you prefer.
2. 2

   Choose district, taluk and village

   Pick from the 14 districts, then the taluk, then the village. If no map loads, the village has not been digitally resurveyed yet.
3. 3

   Find your block and survey number

   Choose the digital block, then search the new survey number. The parcel is highlighted on the map.
4. 4

   Open the parcel details

   Click the parcel to see its details. Take a screenshot or save the page with today's date.

The pop-up shows the land type, land use, area as per revenue records, the ULPIN (a 14-character unique land parcel ID), and a correlation table linking the new parcel to the old block, survey number, sub-division and thandaper. Owner names are not shown publicly.

With a citizen login

Log in with the mobile number that was linked to your land during the digital survey and verified by OTP. If that number was never linked, is wrong or no longer works, Ente Bhoomi says to register with the mobile number linked to your Aadhaar. Once logged in, My Properties lists finalised parcels linked to you, and you can pay tax, see transactions, request a location sketch, apply for a thandaper copy or an e-BTR, and use Search Land Bank for finalised parcels in resurveyed villages.

How do you use Revenue e-Services for thandaper, BTR and tax?

Revenue e-Services (also called ReLIS) is the older revenue portal, still used widely. After registering as a citizen, it offers online land tax payment and receipts, online thandaper copy (thandaper pakarppu), location map, FMB and e-BTR, online pokkuvaravu applications, tharammattam (land type change) and adding missing land. It also has a Verify Land Online option.

If you install the government's Sandes app and register with the mobile number you gave the revenue system, it sends OTPs, application status and approved documents, such as tax receipts and thandaper and BTR copies, as messages.

How do you read your Kerala land details?

Here is what each item on the Ente Bhoomi parcel pop-up and your revenue documents means. The values are invented.

Reading tips:

• Cents and ares. Families talk in cents; records use hectare-are-square metre. One cent is about 40.47 square metres, so 4 ares 5 sq m (405 sq m) is about 10 cents. Our land unit converter does the sums.
• Land type matters. Whether land is recorded as paddy or wet land rather than dry land affects what you can build. Converting it is a regulated process.
• The correlation table is the bridge. Your deed and old tax receipts use old survey and thandaper numbers. If the correlation is wrong, every later service goes wrong.

How do you get certified copies, and what do they cost?

A thandaper copy, BTR extract, location map and FMB sketch can all be applied for online through Revenue e-Services or Ente Bhoomi, and are issued by the village office. Land tax receipts come straight after online payment. Fees are small and shown during the application, and Ente Bhoomi notes that the first tax payment after the digital survey also includes survey charges.

For deeds, apply to the registration department for an encumbrance certificate; Ente Bhoomi lists encumbrance applications among its registration services.

What goes wrong, and how do you fix it?

• No map for your village. It has not been digitally resurveyed yet. Use Revenue e-Services and the village office.
• You cannot log in. Your mobile was not linked during the survey. Register with your Aadhaar-linked mobile, or complete Aadhaar e-KYC to link the thandaper; the Village Officer approves it.
• Wrong old survey number in the correlation. Apply for LRM correlation correction on Ente Bhoomi.
• Area differs from your deed. Resurvey measures what is on the ground. Ente Bhoomi lets owners verify draft records in digital survey villages and file complaints; raise it during the draft stage if you can.
• Tax unpaid for years. Pay it. A long gap weakens your everyday paper trail.

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

Watch for a change in area, land type, ULPIN or the old survey and thandaper correlation; a thandaper you no longer appear on; a tax receipt issued in someone else's name; or a pokkuvaravu (Kerala's mutation) you did not apply for. Our land record change checker helps you compare two copies line by line.

Then: save screenshots, ask the Village Officer for the thandaper and the pokkuvaravu file, and check the encumbrance certificate for any registered deed. Ente Bhoomi has a complaint option, and revenue disputes go up to the Tahsildar and higher officers. For a forged deed, talk to a local property lawyer quickly. Our guide to challenging a wrong mutation explains the usual route.

How do NRIs manage Kerala land records from abroad?

Link your land to your Ente Bhoomi account. Ente Bhoomi sends SMS and Sandes alerts at each step of a land transaction for linked properties, which is the closest thing to an official alarm. Pay land tax online every year, and keep the receipts. Our checklist for managing property from abroad covers the rest of the paperwork.

A trusted relative can look up the public map or visit the village office, and needs no power of attorney for that. NORKA Roots, the state agency for non-resident Keralites, is a starting point for guidance. See the Kerala state page for the main local risks.

How do you keep watch on your Kerala land?

PlotPehra checks Ente Bhoomi's public digital survey record for your parcel every week in digitally resurveyed villages, and flags any change in area, land type, land use, ULPIN or the old survey and thandaper link, which often moves after a pokkuvaravu or split. Be aware of the limit: owner names are not public on Ente Bhoomi, so we cannot see a change of name on its own. Keep Ente Bhoomi's own SMS alerts switched on for that.

We also watch the land in Sentinel-2 satellite images, so clearing, filling of paddy land or a new building at field scale shows up. Monsoon cloud over Kerala can hide the ground for weeks, and we tell you when it does. A real person reviews every alert and explains it in English and Malayalam by email and WhatsApp. No power of attorney, ever.

Open the digital survey map for your village today, save your ULPIN and correlation details, and link your land to Ente Bhoomi so its alerts reach your phone.