Karnataka land records — Bhoomi RTC, Mojini and i-RTC

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026. Portal addresses and services verified against the Revenue Department's land-records site.

Karnataka digitised its land records two decades ago under the name Bhoomi, and the platform remains the state's record of rights — but the address has moved with the times. The live entry point is the Revenue Department's land-records site at landrecords.karnataka.gov.in. From there:

1. RTC / Pahani — the record of rights showing survey number, extent, owner, tenancy, crops and mortgages. This is the document every bank, court and revenue office asks for.
2. i-RTC — the digitally signed, instantly downloadable RTC you can print yourself, legally usable for most purposes instead of a handwritten office copy.
3. Mojini — the mutation application tracker: apply for a mutation (sale, inheritance, partition, court decree) and follow its movement from the Nadakacheri or taluk office to entry in the register.
4. Mutation Register and Tippani extracts, and village maps where published.

Old bookmarks to earlier Bhoomi addresses should be replaced — content now flows from the landrecords portal above.

An RTC tells you who is recorded today. A mutation changes who is recorded tomorrow. Buying land, inheriting it, or getting a share in a partition only becomes “yours” in the revenue books when the mutation is entered. Until then:

1. the seller's or deceased person's name stays on the RTC;
2. banks hesitate over loans;
3. compensation, acquisition and scheme payments route to the recorded holder.

So after every registered sale deed, will, partition deed or court decree, file the mutation application immediately at the taluk office or Nadakacheri and note the Mojini number.

Common stalls, all fixable:

1. Objection pending — a relative or neighbour filed one, and nobody scheduled a hearing.
2. Untenanted/agricultural status query — the office wants a clarity certificate or a status conversion order.
3. Document mismatch — the survey number or extent in your deed differs from the survey record by even a digit.
4. Simply unmarked — the file physically sits in the Shirastedar's rack with no officer assigned. This is the most common, and the most responsive to paper.

To, The Public Information Officer,
Office of the Tahsildar, [taluk], [district]

Subject: Information under §6(1), RTI Act 2005 — Mutation Case No. ____ / Sy. No. ____

Please provide:
1. Present stage of mutation application no. ____ filed on ____ — received, marked, noticed, heard, ordered, or entered.
2. The name and designation of the officer currently holding the file, and every officer it has passed through, with dates.
3. If any objection is recorded: its contents, the objector, and the hearing date fixed.
4. The prescribed time-limit for mutation of this class, and the days elapsed against it.
5. Copies of the survey record extract relied upon, including extent and boundaries.

₹10 IPO enclosed.
[Name, address, signature, date]

The reply usually lands well inside 30 days, and files marked “unassigned” get assigned the same week — a mutation RTI is the highest-yield ₹10 in Karnataka land matters.

1. **Mojini tracking** plus a written status request at the Nadakacheri or taluk office.
2. **Shirastedar, then Tahsildar** — a dated written request quoting the Mojini number.
3. **RTI** as drafted; first appeal to the senior officer within 30 days of a weak reply.
4. **Assistant Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner** — the subdivisional and district revenue chain hears mutation grievances in monthly meetings.
5. **KAT or writ** where a mutation is wrongly rejected — with your RTI reply as the timeline evidence.

Real example. Kashvi Pathak's family inherited a share in a Tumakuru plot. Eleven months after filing, the mutation still “showed under process” on Mojini. One RTI for the file's stage and holders produced a reply showing an unopened objection letter from 2024 — misfiled, unheard. The Tahsildar fixed a hearing within the month; the entry followed.

The Record of Rights, Tenancy and Crops — the official statement of who holds a survey number, on what terms, with what crops and encumbrances. Also called Pahani.

From the land-records portal at landrecords.karnataka.gov.in — the i-RTC download is digitally signed.

The mutation application system on the same portal — apply, pay and track a mutation end to end.

The rules prescribe a short, definite window for each class of mutation; months of silence means a stalled file, not a busy one. The RTI reply will state the prescribed limit.

RTC extracts are public documents; an RTI asking for the record and status of a specific survey number is routinely answered.

• Karnataka land records portal — RTC, i-RTC and Mojini services
• Karnataka Land Revenue Act and Rules — mutation procedure and timelines
• RTI Act 2005, §6, §7, §19

• Land records in every state — guides
• Telangana — Bhu Bharati land records
• Maharashtra Bhulekh — 7/12 extract
• The RTI Playbook