Tamil Nadu patta and chitta — the e-Services route

The two extracts travel as a pair — “patta chitta” — and the portal prints them together. The confusion to avoid is between holding the extract and holding the right: the portal shows the record as it stands, and it stands in the name of the last person who completed a transfer.

1. Open eservices.tn.gov.in and choose the patta/chitta service
2. District, taluk, village, then the survey number (or subdivision number) — the fields mirror how the revenue records themselves are indexed
3. The extract shows holder name, extent, classification and tax particulars; download or print it
4. A-Register extract — the village account another step deep — answers cultivation and tenancy particulars for the same survey number
5. Tamil Nadu's services also run through e-sevai centres for certified copies and the operations the web view does not perform

Free view, nominal charge at the counter for a certified copy — and always take the certified copy for any transaction.

1. Apply at the **taluk office** (or e-sevai centre) with the **document that proves the change** — sale deed, partition deed, inheritance papers — plus the current extract and tax receipts
2. The office verifies survey boundaries, inspects where needed, and **issues the patta in the new name** — the record updates on the portal after the transfer is complete
3. **Take the acknowledgement with its number** — it is the handle for every follow-up
4. Expect routine processing in **weeks**; beyond that, the file has stalled, and polite enquiry has a known failure rate

1. Status of my patta-transfer application no. ____ dated ____, village ____, survey no. ____ — stage of processing and the officer holding the file.
2. Copy of the noting on my application to date.
3. The number of patta-transfer applications pending beyond six months in taluk ____, as on date.
4. The number of patta transfers completed in taluk ____ in the last six months.

Point 3 and 4 together are the pressure: offices answer quickly when their pending-and-throughput counts are about to be produced. Applications go to the PIO of the Revenue Department at the taluk or district — ₹10, 30 days; first appeal to the department's FAA within 30 days; second appeal to the Tamil Nadu State Information Commission.

Real example. Kashvi Pathak's family's patta transfer after a purchase in a Coimbatore-area taluk sat eleven months. The RTI above, addressed to the taluk office PIO, returned in 24 days: the file had cleared inspection in month two and waited since on a signature. The transfer order issued three weeks after the reply arrived — the register had simply been asked for.

1. The name on the extract must chain to the seller's deed; a mismatch means the seller's transfer never completed — a problem the seller must fix before you pay
2. Check classification on the chitta: wet, dry, nanja, punja and the urban classifications decide what the land may lawfully become
3. Survey-boundary mismatches between deed and extract are common; resolve before registration, not after
4. Confirm no tenancy or assignment entries ride the A-Register for the survey number

Patta is the record of ownership of the land; chitta carries the extent, classification and tax particulars. The portal issues them together.

The online view is free; certified copies carry the prescribed charge through the e-sevai/taluk counter.

The finer split of a survey number where a holding is part of a larger survey parcel — the portal searches by either.

Weeks for complete files in the ordinary course; there is no single statutory number — which is why the pending-count RTI question exists.

Applications are accepted at e-sevai centres and the taluk office; the verification itself runs through the taluk machinery.

• Land records in every state
• Maharashtra 7/12 and property card
• File RTI online — the national guide
• The RTI Playbook

• eservices.tn.gov.in — Tamil Nadu e-Services: patta/chitta and A-Register extracts (verified live on this run)
• Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency — e-sevai service framework

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026. Portal services and search keys verified live; procedure consistent with the taluk-office structure the portal itself indexes.