Mahabhulekh — 7/12, Satbara and property card 2026

Every Maharashtra property question starts with the same three documents, and all three are on the portal. What the portal cannot do — correct an entry, unstick a mutation, explain a 12-year-old recording error — is a records-and-process job, and that is where the RTI Act pays for itself.

• 7/12 extract — Satbara — the village form that pairs ownership (the 7) with cultivation and encumbrances (the 12); the primary proof of title particulars for agriculture land
• 8A extract — the landholder's account extract from the same set: holdings by account number across the village

1. Property card — the urban sibling, from the city survey records: flat, plot or building ownership history
2. Both sets update from mutation entries — the register that records every transfer, inheritance, mortgage or partition; an unregistered mutation means the 7/12 still shows the old owner

On bhulekh.mahabhumi.gov.in, choose the record type, then district, taluka and village — or search by survey number. The view is free; a certified copy, where a transaction needs one, comes from the Talathi's office or the Setu/Sarathi centre on payment of the prescribed charge.

1. **File the mutation/correction with the Talathi** with your deed, death certificate or decree — the document that proves the change
2. **The Circle Officer disposes of mutation entries**; disputes over title itself go to the civil court, never the revenue office
3. **Track the diary number** — every submission gets one; the mutation register entry is the proof of processing
4. **Stuck beyond the ordinary period?** Ask, in writing, through the RTI route below — mutation registers move when they are about to be produced

1. Copy of the mutation entry no. ____ of village ____, including date of presentation, name of the officer, and present status.
2. The number of mutation entries pending beyond the prescribed period in taluka ____, as on date.
3. Copy of my application dated ____ for correction of ____, with the noting on it to date.
4. The name and designation of the officer currently holding the charge of Circle Officer, taluka ____.

• Land records sit with the Revenue Department — the Talathi holds the village records, the Circle Officer the mutation register, the Tahsildar the taluka office
• Applications go to the PIO of the respective office, or through the state's online RTI route; the fee is ₹10, and the reply clock is 30 days
• For the portal itself — downtime, digitisation contracts, coverage — the Setu/Sarathi and Land Records Department answers through its PIO
• See how to file in Maharashtra for the fee and route specifics, including the state's appeal structure

1. The name on the 7/12 or property card should chain cleanly to the seller's deed; a gap means a missing mutation
2. Check the encumbrance notings — mortgages and court orders appear in the 12 half
3. Agricultural land carries conversion and ceiling questions no portal copy answers — that is legal work
4. The portal view is informational; for the transaction, take the certified copy

Real example. Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak's inherited survey number still showed his grandfather as holder — three mutations unregistered across two decades. The Talathi's office received the papers and filed them. Eight months of silence ended with one RTI: the mutation register entries for the survey number, pending counts for the taluka, and the diary status of his own file. Two of the three mutations were entered within a month; the register extract moved the third past its objection.

None — Satbara is Marathi for seven-twelve; the same village extract.

Viewing the extract or property card is free; certified copies carry the prescribed charge at the issuing office.

That domain no longer resolves — the live portal is bhulekh.mahabhumi.gov.in.

Correction of substance — names, successions, area — runs through the Talathi and Circle Officer with documents; the portal displays the register, it does not adjudicate.

Ordinarily weeks once documents are complete; there is no single statutory number for every case — which is exactly why the pending-count question in the RTI draft works.

• Land records in every state
• Tamil Nadu patta and chitta
• How to file RTI in Maharashtra
• The RTI Playbook

• bhulekh.mahabhumi.gov.in — Maharashtra land records portal (live and verified; the mahabhulekh.maharashtra.gov.in address verified non-resolving)
• Maharashtra land-revenue framework — mutation entries and the Talathi/Circle Officer structure as recorded on the portal's own forms

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026. Portal address and document availability verified live on this run; fee and appeal structure consistent with the Maharashtra pages on this wiki.