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Khata type identifier

A khata is a municipal or panchayat body's account for a property: it records who that body bills for tax. It is not title, in any of its forms. This page helps you identify which record you are holding by reading what is printed on it, sets out what each one does and does not establish, and — for the three decisions people say a khata blocks — names who actually makes each decision and what the record contributes to it.

4 records, all four on this page in full. Nothing typed or chosen here leaves your browser. Reviewed 24 August 2026 · all tools

Start with the paper in front of you

What kind of body is named at the head of the document?

Two more questions follow below, and all 4 records are on the page whether you answer or not. Nothing chosen here leaves your browser.

The other two questions

Before the classification

No khata of any kind is a document of title

This is the sentence the rest of the page is built on, and it is true of every record below without exception. Ownership of immovable property in India passes by a registered instrument — a sale deed. A khata is the account a local body keeps so that it can assess and collect tax, and no local body issues one as proof of ownership.

What proves ownership

The registered sale deed, read together with the parent documents that show how the seller came to own it. That chain is what a buyer's lawyer examines, and nothing on a municipal register substitutes for it.

What shows encumbrances

The encumbrance certificate, from the registration department — a different department from the one that keeps the khata, searching a different record. A clean khata says nothing about a charge on the property.

What a khata does

It names the person the local body assesses and bills, and records the particulars that body holds. That is a real and useful thing, and it is a smaller thing than it is usually sold as.

The identifier

Three questions, all answered by reading the document

Not one of these asks you to know something about the property. Each is answered by looking at what is printed on the paper in front of you — which is the only place the answer has ever been.

Question 1

What kind of body is named at the head of the document?

Question 2

Does the document or the body's record refer to a separate register?

Question 3

How was the document produced?

All 4 records are shown below

Answering narrows the list. Answering nothing shows all of it, which is also what this page shows when the script does not run — the questions are a convenience, not a gate, and nothing on this page is held back behind them.

A-Khata

Also called: Khata, A-register khata, Khata certificate and extract

The main register — the one people call the A-register — kept by the municipal body with jurisdiction over the property.

Issued by — The municipal body itself, through its citizen service counter or its online system. Inside Bengaluru's municipal area that body is a city corporation under the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 — see the note on BBMP below.

SourcesKarnataka Legislative Assembly — The Greater Bengaluru Governance (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (LA Bill No. 58 of 2025) (opens in a new tab)Department of Stamps and Registration, Government of Karnataka — Kaveri Online Services (opens in a new tab)SUYUG Infra

An A-Khata is an entry in the main property register a Karnataka municipal body keeps to record a property and the person liable to pay tax on it. It is a municipal revenue record and not a document of title: it says who the corporation bills, not who owns the property.

What it does establish

That the body holds an account for this property in the main register, in the name printed on it.
That the named person is who the body assesses and bills for property tax.
The identifiers and measurements the body has on file, as at the date the document was issued.

What it does not establish

Ownership. Title to immovable property in India passes by a registered instrument — a sale deed — not by a municipal register entry, and no municipal body issues a khata as one.
That the property is free of encumbrances. That is what the encumbrance certificate is for, and it comes from the registration department, not from the municipal body.
That any particular approval was validly granted. The register records what the body holds; it does not re-examine it.

How to tell you are holding this one

The document names a municipal body at its head, and that body is a corporation, a city municipal council, a town municipal council or a town panchayat — not a grama panchayat.
Two separate documents come out of the same register: a khata certificate, which states that an account exists in a named person's name, and a khata extract, which sets out the details held in the register. Being shown one is not being shown the other.
The extract carries the property's identifiers and its measurements as the body has recorded them. Those measurements are the body's record of the property, not an independent survey of it.

The three decisions people attribute to it

A home loanDecided byThe lender, as a credit decision against its own policy.: Lenders ask for the khata as part of the document set, alongside the registered sale deed, the parent documents and the encumbrance certificate. What weight a particular lender gives it, and what else it wants, is that lender's policy — ask the lender, in writing, before you rely on an answer from anybody selling you the property.
A building plan sanctionDecided byThe planning authority or municipal body with jurisdiction, against its own regulations in force on the date of application.: The sanctioning body works from the property's records. A khata is one of them; the land's conversion status, the approved layout and the zoning for the plot are others, and none of them is cured or replaced by the khata.
Registering a transferDecided byThe Sub-Registrar, under the Registration Act, 1908, and the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957 for the duty payable.: The khata is part of the document set presented and the municipal record the transfer will later be reflected in. Changing the name in the register after a sale is a separate application — the khata transfer — and it is the buyer's to make.

B-Khata

Also called: B-register entry, B-Khata property

A separate register from the main one, kept by the same municipal body, for properties whose records do not meet the requirements the body's main register implies.

Issued by — The same municipal body that keeps the main register. The register a property sits in is the body's classification of its own records, not a description of the property's worth.

A B-Khata is an entry in a separate register a Karnataka municipal body keeps for properties it taxes but does not treat as qualifying for the main register. It records a tax liability; it certifies nothing about approvals, land conversion or building compliance, and it is not a grade of title.

What it does establish

That the body taxes this property and holds an account for it.
That the body has not entered it in the main register.

What it does not establish

It does not cure a defect. It does not convert agricultural land, it does not sanction an unapproved plan, it does not regularise a deviation, and it does not create title.
It is not a lesser grade of ownership. Ownership is not what a khata records at all, in either register.
It does not tell you WHICH requirement is unmet — that has to be asked, and it is the single question worth asking about a property described this way.

How to tell you are holding this one

The document, or the body's own record for the property, refers to a separate register — commonly written as the B-register or B-khata — rather than to the main one.
The tax demand or receipt exists and is being paid. A property in the B-register is being taxed; that is precisely what the entry is for, and paying tax on it proves nothing further.
There is a specific reason the property is in that register. It is a fact about one requirement the body's records do not meet, and it can be asked for by name.

The three decisions people attribute to it

A home loanDecided byThe lender.: The register a property sits in is information a lender weighs, and lenders differ. The useful step is not to price a discount for the classification; it is to find out which specific requirement the records do not meet, because that is the thing being bought — and then to ask the lender about that.
A building plan sanctionDecided byThe planning authority or municipal body with jurisdiction.: The entry does not sanction anything and does not make the underlying position compliant. Whatever the unmet requirement is, it is still unmet after the entry is made.
Registering a transferDecided byThe Sub-Registrar, under the Registration Act, 1908.: Registration and municipal classification are separate systems answering separate questions. Treat the classification as a prompt to read the parent documents and the encumbrance certificate properly, not as a verdict on whether the transaction can happen.

E-Khata

Also called: e-Khata, digital khata

The same register, held digitally and keyed to the property, so that the extract and certificate are generated from a record rather than typed out of a ledger.

Issued by — The body that keeps the register, through its own online system. Which system, and what it currently requires, has changed during the rollout and differs between local bodies.

SourcesKarnataka Legislative Assembly — The Greater Bengaluru Governance (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (LA Bill No. 58 of 2025) (opens in a new tab)SUYUG Infra

An e-Khata is a khata record issued in digital form through a government online property-record system rather than over a counter. Digitisation changes how the record is issued and verified — it does not change what a khata proves, which is a tax liability rather than ownership.

What it does establish

That the body's digital record for the property exists, in the state shown, on the date generated.
The same thing the paper document establishes: who the body bills.

What it does not establish

Ownership — for exactly the same reason the paper khata does not.
That the underlying record is correct. Digitisation inherits the record; it does not audit it.
Anything about eligibility, timing or process that this page could safely state. Which properties are covered, what the system requires and how it treats a property in the separate register have all moved during the rollout, and a second-hand account of the rule goes stale within months.

How to tell you are holding this one

The document is generated rather than written: it carries a system-issued number, a generation date and usually a verification route printed on its face.
The issuing body is still named on it. A digital document does not stop being that body's record, and the name on the head is the answer to which system you are in.
It reproduces what the register holds. If the register holds an error, so does the digital extract — a clean-looking generated document is not an independent verification of anything.

The three decisions people attribute to it

A home loanDecided byThe lender.: A digital extract is the same record in a form that can be checked without visiting the office that holds it. Whether a lender requires the digital form specifically is that lender's requirement, and it is asked of the lender.
A building plan sanctionDecided byThe planning authority or municipal body with jurisdiction.: Unchanged by the format of the khata. The sanctioning body reads the property's records, in whatever form it holds them.
Registering a transferDecided byThe Sub-Registrar, under the Registration Act, 1908.: If anyone tells you a transaction is blocked, delayed or enabled by the digital status of a khata, ask which body said so and get it from that body. This is the fastest-moving part of the subject, and the part reported with the least warranted confidence.

Panchayat khata

Also called: Grama panchayat property record, Panchayat khata extract

The grama panchayat's own property register. Karnataka's Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department runs e-Swathu as the state's online property-record system for panchayat areas.

Issued by — The grama panchayat, under the Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act, 1993 — section 199 of which is the provision under which a grama panchayat levies tax on buildings and lands in its area that are not subject to agricultural assessment.

SourcesRural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Government of Karnataka — e-Swathu — property records for grama panchayat areas (opens in a new tab)Bengaluru Urban District Administration — Subdivision & Blocks (opens in a new tab)Department of Stamps and Registration, Government of Karnataka — Sub Registrars — office directory (opens in a new tab)

A panchayat khata is the property record a grama panchayat keeps for a property inside its area, under a different department and a different statute from a municipal khata. It is the record a great deal of land on the outer stretches of this corridor is on, and it is not an A-Khata or a B-Khata, because those are entries in a municipal body's registers.

What it does establish

That the panchayat holds a record for the property and assesses it.
The particulars the panchayat has entered, as at the date of issue.

What it does not establish

Ownership — the same limit as every other khata on this page.
That the land has been converted from agricultural use, or that any layout or building approval exists. Those are separate documents from separate authorities.
That the property will keep the same record if municipal limits change. Which body a parcel falls under is fixed by notification, and notifications move.

How to tell you are holding this one

The head of the document names a grama panchayat, and a taluk and district — not a corporation or a municipal council.
The record is on the state's rural property-record system rather than on a municipal one. The two systems are run by different departments and do not see each other.
Anekal taluk alone holds 6 urban local bodies and 28 grama panchayats across 224 villages, on the district administration's own count — so on this corridor a panchayat record is the ordinary case rather than the exception.

The three decisions people attribute to it

A home loanDecided byThe lender.: Lenders ask for the panchayat's record alongside the registered deed, the conversion order where the land was agricultural, and the encumbrance certificate. Which documents a particular lender needs is a question for the lender.
A building plan sanctionDecided byThe planning authority for the local planning area, and the panchayat, according to how the two divide the work for that parcel.: A panchayat record is not a planning approval. On this corridor the planning authority's approval and the panchayat's record are two different pieces of paper from two different offices, and layout advertising routinely blurs them.
Registering a transferDecided byThe Sub-Registrar, under the Registration Act, 1908.: The panchayat record is part of the document set and is updated after the sale on a separate application. As with a municipal khata, that update is the buyer's to make and does not happen automatically on registration.

Read this before you name a body

Bengaluru's civic bodies changed in 2025

Bengaluru's municipal government was recast in 2025. The Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 — Karnataka Act No. 36 of 2025, named and numbered that way in the Legislative Assembly's own amendment bill, which amends its sections 8 and 14 — replaced the single Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike with City Corporations under a Greater Bengaluru Authority. Any page that still tells you the BBMP holds your khata is describing an office that has been superseded.

That is where our certainty stops, and it stops on purpose. Which corporation a given address now falls in, and where the corporations' outer boundary runs, are answered by the delimitation notification, and we could not read that notification from a government source on the day this page was reviewed. So no page of ours names a corporation for an address, and this one does not either.

For this corridor the more important half of the answer is that a great deal of it is not in a municipal area at all. The district administration's own count gives Anekal taluk 6 urban local bodies and 28 grama panchayats across 224 villages — so for a great many parcels here the record is a grama panchayat's, kept under a different Act, by a different department, on a different system. Which one applies to a survey number is settled by the parcel, not by the locality name in an advertisement.

The document itself is the answer, and it is a better answer than any website can give: the khata, the tax receipt and the sanctioned plan each name the body that issued them.

SourcesKarnataka Legislative Assembly — The Greater Bengaluru Governance (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (LA Bill No. 58 of 2025) (opens in a new tab)Bengaluru Urban District Administration — Subdivision & Blocks (opens in a new tab)Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Government of Karnataka — e-Swathu — property records for grama panchayat areas (opens in a new tab)

Why we name no body for your address

Because the alternative is to write something true-sounding. Which body holds your khata decides your property tax, your building plan sanction and who you deal with for a transfer; it is not a field to fill in from memory, and since 2025 it is not a field to copy off another website either.

The document in your hand outperforms every website on this question, including ours. It names the body that issued it, on its face, and that body is the answer.

If what you need is which STATE, district and taluk your land is in — the question underneath this one on a corridor that crosses a state border — that is what our jurisdiction finder is for.

Read this before you rely on it

What this tool cannot do

The property web answers these questions with a confident table. Five sentences on why this page will not.

This page identifies a KIND of record from what is printed on it. It cannot tell you whether your khata is genuine, current, or correctly reflects the property — only the body that keeps the register can, and it will.
It names no body for any address. Which corporation, council or panchayat holds a given property is fixed by notification, changed in 2025 for Bengaluru, and is not something to infer from a pin code.
It states no fee, no timeline and no document list for any khata application or transfer. Those are published by the jurisdictional body and they change; ask that body's citizen service counter.
It does not tell you what will happen to your loan, your plan sanction or your sale. Those are decisions of a lender, a planning authority and a Sub-Registrar respectively — this page says what each of them is looking at, and who to ask.
No khata of any kind is a document of title. If this page leaves you with one sentence, that is the sentence.

Who levies the tax Khata, EC, sale deed defined Jurisdiction finder

Sources

What was read, and what it holds up

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Government of Karnataka
e-Swathu — property records for grama panchayat areas (opens in a new tab)
eswathu.karnataka.gov.in
That Karnataka's rural property records — the register a grama panchayat keeps for property in its area — are held by the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, on its own portal, and not by any municipal corporation.
Bengaluru Urban District Administration
Subdivision & Blocks (opens in a new tab)
bengaluruurban.nic.in
That Anekal is one of the district's taluks, and the district's own count of what is inside it: 4 hoblis, 6 urban local bodies, 28 grama panchayats and 224 villages. That count is why the levying body on this corridor is a per-parcel question rather than a per-locality one.
Karnataka Legislative Assembly
The Greater Bengaluru Governance (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (LA Bill No. 58 of 2025) (opens in a new tab)
kla.kar.nic.in
The name and number of the parent Act — the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 (Karnataka Act No. 36 of 2025) — and that its sections 8 and 14 speak of City Corporations. This is what puts every page that still names the BBMP as your civic body out of date.
Department of Stamps and Registration, Government of Karnataka
Sub Registrars — office directory (opens in a new tab)
igr.karnataka.gov.in
The Sub-Registrar Offices in Anekal taluk and the District Registrar Office they are listed under — the office that registers the deed, which is a different office from the one that keeps the khata.
Department of Stamps and Registration, Government of Karnataka
Kaveri Online Services (opens in a new tab)
kaverionline.karnataka.gov.in
Where a Karnataka document is registered and searched, and where the encumbrance certificate that a khata is not a substitute for is obtained.
SUYUG Infra
Glossary — carpet area, built-up area, super built-up area
suyug.com
The verbatim text of section 2(k) of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, transcribed once for the whole site. Every quotation of it on these pages is read out of that one entry rather than re-typed.

Every address above was opened on 24 August 2026. Government sites move their pages; if one of these no longer resolves, the fact it holds up is unverified until someone finds where it went, not true because it was true once.

Statutes are cited by Act and section rather than linked — the Registration Act, 1908 for registration of a transfer, the Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act, 1993 for a grama panchayat’s tax on buildings and lands, and the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 for the recasting of Bengaluru’s corporation. A section number takes you to the same words wherever you read them.