Punjab Jamabandi Online: Check and Download Your Fard on PLRS

To check your Punjab jamabandi online, open the PLRS portal at jamabandi.punjab.gov.in, choose your district, tehsil, village and jamabandi year, then pick your khewat or khasra number. In two minutes you see the same record the patwari keeps, free, from anywhere.

This guide goes one level deeper than the search. It explains what every column of the fard means, how to get a signed copy that banks and courts accept, what to do when the portal will not cooperate, and how to tell if someone has changed your land record behind your back.

What is a Punjab jamabandi, and what is a fard?

The jamabandi is Punjab's record of rights: a village-by-village register of who owns each field, who cultivates it, their share and the area. A fard is a copy of your entry in it, and the word is used for both the free online view and the certified copy.

The jamabandi is kept by the village patwari and prepared afresh every few years. Between editions, changes such as sales, inheritances, mortgages and court orders are added through intkal (mutation) and rapat (diary) entries. PLRS says its digital record goes back to 2002.

What a fard proves, and what it does not

A fard proves who is recorded as holding the land in the revenue record, with what share and over which khasras. It is what a bank, a court or a sub-registrar asks for first.

It does not prove title on its own. Ownership comes from a registered sale deed, gift deed, will, partition or court decree. A mutation can be entered wrongly, and it can be challenged. Keep your fard and your title papers together. Our khasra, khatauni and jamabandi explainer compares this with other states' records.

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

Go to jamabandi.punjab.gov.in, open View Jamabandi, and choose how to search: Owner Name Wise, Khewat No. Wise, Khasra No. Wise or Khatouni No. Wise. Khewat is the most reliable if you have an old fard.

1. 1

   Pick the search type

   Under View Jamabandi, choose Khewat No. Wise if you know your khewat (account) number. Use Khasra No. Wise if you only know the field number.
2. 2

   Choose the jamabandi period

   Leave it on Current for today's record. Choose Previous to see the earlier edition, which is useful for comparing.
3. 3

   District, then tehsil, then village

   Pick the district where the land lies, then the tehsil, then the village. Names show in Punjabi and English, for example Moga with ਮੋਗਾ.
4. 4

   Choose the year

   Pick the jamabandi year (the latest is normally right) and press Select. The page then lists every khewat, khasra or khatauni of that village.
5. 5

   Choose your number and type the CAPTCHA

   Select your number from the list, type the 6-character CAPTCHA exactly as shown (capital and small letters matter) and press View Report.
6. 6

   Save a dated copy

   The fard opens as a PDF marked not for legal purposes. Download it and name the file with today's date. It is your baseline for spotting changes later.

Owner Name Wise works too, but you must type the name in Gurmukhi on a Punjabi virtual keyboard, then pick the right person by father's name. If you are unsure which portal or number your family's land uses, an old fard or sale deed will show it.

How do you read every column of the fard?

A Punjab fard has eight columns, read left to right. The example below uses invented names and numbers, laid out the way a PLRS fard prints them.

A few reading tips:

• Shares. Fractions such as 1/2 or 3/8 are shares of the whole khewat, not of a single field. "Barabar hissa" means equal shares.
• Area. "8-0" means 8 kanals 0 marlas. In Punjab, 20 marlas make a kanal and 8 kanals make an acre. Our land unit converter turns kanal-marla into acres or square metres.
• Murabba // killa. Consolidated villages number land by square (murabba) and field (killa), so 45//12 is killa 12 of square 45.
• Khud kasht in the cultivator column means the owner farms it. A tenant's name here, season after season, is worth knowing about. It shows up in the girdawari, the patwari's crop record.
• Remarks. Every intkal and rapat that touched your khewat is cited here, often with a short word such as bai (sale), virasat (inheritance) or rehan (mortgage).

How do you get a certified or digitally signed fard?

You have three routes, and all three are legally valid according to the PLRS FAQ: a digitally signed QR-coded fard online, a fard from a Sewa Kendra, or a fard from a Fard Kendra at the tehsil.

The online route is the easiest from abroad. After you view the report, choose the signed copy, enter a name, mobile number (an Indian number is preferred), email and address, and choose delivery by download, WhatsApp or email. The Easy Jamabandi user manual lists the fee as ₹25 per page, paid by UPI, card or net banking after an OTP. Fees can change, so check the amount shown before you pay.

If you need the copy delivered at a family member's home in Punjab, the state's doorstep service can be booked on 1076; the FAQ lists a ₹50 service fee. If Adobe Reader shows a question mark over the signature, the FAQ says the fard is still valid and explains how to mark the signer's certificate as trusted.

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

Most problems are small. Here are the ones Punjab families hit most often.

• The site is slow or will not load. PLRS is busiest during Indian office hours. Try early morning or late evening India time; for North America that is often your evening. If it still fails from abroad, ask a relative in India to try.
• The village is not listed. Districts and tehsils have been split over the years (Malerkotla is now a district, for example). Try the neighbouring tehsil or the newer district, and check the revenue name of the village on an old fard.
• The name does not match. Names are in Gurmukhi and spelled the way the patwari wrote them. Search by khewat or khasra instead, or look for the father's or grandfather's name if the land was inherited.
• CAPTCHA keeps failing. It is case-sensitive. A narrow 0 is usually zero and a round O the letter. Reload for a new image rather than guessing.
• You need an older record. Switch the period to Previous for the last edition. For anything older than the digital record, ask at the tehsil record room, or file an RTI with our RTI application generator.
• A word in the remarks looks garbled. The PDF font drops a few Gurmukhi conjuncts. The numbers are what matter; a signed fard reads cleanly.

How do you spot a suspicious change in your jamabandi?

Compare today's fard with your last saved copy, line by line. Four changes deserve attention straight away: a new name in the owners column, a changed share, a new name in the cultivators column, and a new intkal or rapat number in remarks that nobody in the family asked for.

Then look the number up. On PLRS, View Mutation, Mutation No. Wise shows what an intkal was for, and View Roznamcha shows rapat entries such as mortgages and court orders. View Registered Deed lists deeds registered against the land. Our guide to mutation, intkal and dakhil-kharij explains how a mutation moves from entry to sanction.

Most surprises turn out to be paperwork, such as a family inheritance entered by a cousin. A genuine fraud, though, gets harder to undo the longer it sits. Our Punjab NRI guide, linked below, covers the next steps if it looks deliberate.

How do you manage all this from abroad?

Almost everything here works from outside India: the free view, the signed fard by email or WhatsApp, the grievance form and even the state's own khewat subscription, which accepts an NRI mobile number with a country code. The parts that need someone on the ground are a visit to the patwari or tehsil, and checking what is happening on the field itself.

If a relative helps, keep it narrow. Anyone can view a fard or collect a certified copy with the village and khewat number, so they need no power of attorney for that. Ask them to send you photos of anything they collect, and never sign blank papers or a general power of attorney just to "make things easier". Our Punjab NRI land guide lists the state's NRI Affairs department, NRI Commission and NRI police stations if a dispute escalates. For more state detail, see the Punjab state page.

How do you keep watch on your jamabandi without checking every week?

The honest answer is that checking by hand works, if you keep it up. Every week or two you open PLRS, find your khewat, solve the CAPTCHA, download the fard and compare it with the last one. With several khewats in different villages, that becomes an hour you will skip during a busy month, which is exactly when trouble starts.

Punjab's own Subscription service is a good start: for a yearly fee it sends you a WhatsApp or email message when an entry on a subscribed khewat changes. Use it.

PlotPehra goes one step further. We check your official Punjab record every week, compare owners, shares, khasras, area and mutation entries, and a real person reviews any change before it reaches you, explained in English and Punjabi by email and WhatsApp. Because paper is only half the picture, we also watch the field itself from space with Sentinel-2 imagery, so a new structure, digging or someone else's crop shows up even when the record has not changed. No documents and no power of attorney, ever.

The short version

Save your khewat number, check your jamabandi on PLRS, and keep a dated fard on file. Buy a signed copy for ₹25 a page whenever you need it for official work. Read the remarks column every time, because that is where a mutation behind your back first appears, and act within days if something does not add up.