Rajasthan land records: reading the jamabandi on Apna Khata

What is Apna Khata, and who runs it?

Apna Khata (अपना खाता) is the Government of Rajasthan's online land-records portal — apnakhata.rajasthan.gov.in. Behind it sits e-Dharti (edharti.rajasthan.gov.in), the record-management system operated by the Board of Revenue for Rajasthan with technical support from NIC; the village record itself is written and maintained by the Patwari and attested up through the Tehsildar. If you have used Haryana's jamabandi portal, treat this as a different system with a different login flow and different field names — the concepts rhyme, but the procedure does not carry over.

What records can you pull, and what are they called?

The portal serves the jamabandi nakal — the record of rights, which lists the khatedar, the khasra numbers, the area and the land class; the Bhu-Naksha map for the plot; and applications for namantaran (mutation), girdawari (the crop record), demarcation and partition. The Rajasthan vocabulary is worth fixing before you read a single row: the account is the khata (or khatauni), the plot is the khasra, the map is the naksha. These are not Haryana's terms rebadged — they are the state's own, and a broker who mixes them is reading from the wrong book.

• Jamabandi nakal — the record of rights (khatedar, khasra, area, class).
• Khata / khatauni — the holder's account within a village.
• Khasra — the individual plot number.
• Bhu-Naksha — the cadastral map (separate portal: bhunaksha.rajasthan.gov.in).
• Girdawari — the season-by-season crop/possession record.

Is the free online copy good enough to act on?

No — and the portal says so itself. The free jamabandi you download carries an explicit official disclaimer that it is "for general information only" and "cannot be used as a certified or authorised copy in any court or office." For any transaction, dispute or submission you need the certified, digitally-signed jamabandi nakal, which is issued through an e-Mitra kiosk against a prescribed fee (the fee basis is a Board of Revenue order dated 10 August 2018). Read the free copy to orient yourself; rely only on the signed one.

How much does the certified nakal cost?

The certified copy is issued for a small statutory fee via e-Mitra; a figure of ₹10 for the e-signed jamabandi is widely reported, but we treat that as a secondary, unofficial figure — the official basis is the 2018 Board of Revenue fee order, and we could not read the exact rupee amount off the official schedule. The honest position: the certified copy is inexpensive, the fee is set by that order, and you confirm the current amount at the e-Mitra counter rather than from any blog. What matters far more than the fee is that the copy is digitally signed.

What should a buyer actually check on the record?

That the seller is the recorded khatedar for the exact khasra numbers under sale; that the area and land class on the jamabandi match what is being sold and what the price assumes; that the Bhu-Naksha shape and neighbours match the ground and the seller's story; that the girdawari shows a consistent cultivation history without unexplained gaps; and that the mutation chain (namantaran) is complete back through the transfers that brought the land to the seller. Rajasthan adds one check Haryana does not — the seller's tenancy class and any khatedari restriction — which the khatedari-rights guide covers in full.

How does this differ from Haryana's records?

The record of rights is called "jamabandi" in both states, which is exactly why buyers get careless: the resemblance is in the name, not the machinery. Rajasthan's portal, its record-management system (e-Dharti), its issuing authority (Board of Revenue for Rajasthan), its map portal (Bhu-Naksha) and its tenancy vocabulary are its own. A figure, a portal path or a form number from Haryana is not evidence about a Rajasthan parcel — every Rajasthan fact on this site is sourced to a Rajasthan authority, and this guide is no exception.