Name Correction in Jamabandi and Khatiyan in Jharkhand
Every other record on this website answers the question who are you. A land record answers a different question: who owns this. That one difference changes everything, and it is why this page is the most cautious on the whole site. In Jharkhand, putting a different name on a holding is not a clerical act. Section 46 of the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908 provides that no transfer by a raiyat of his right in his holding, by sale, gift or any other contract or agreement, "shall be valid to any extent", and where the raiyat belongs to a Scheduled Tribe a transfer needs the previous sanction of the Deputy Commissioner and may be only to another member of the Scheduled Tribes. So before anything else, this page helps you work out which of three completely different things you are actually asking for.
Work out which of three things you mean, because only the first is a name correction. One, the spelling of your own name is wrong on an entry that is already yours. Hembrom written as Hembram, Oraon as Uraon, a Hindi name spelt one way on the record and another way on your Aadhaar. Nothing about ownership is in question and nobody else's rights are touched. That is a genuine correction of the record against your identity documents, and it is the one we handle. Two, the land is recorded in your father's or grandfather's name and you want your own name on it. That is not a correction at all. Nothing on the record is wrong. The record is correct and the owner has changed, which is a question of succession and mutation, not of spelling, and it is a different application to a different officer. Three, the land is somebody else's and a name change is being suggested as the way to move it. That is a transfer, and in Jharkhand it runs straight into the tenancy Acts. Section 46 of the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908 provides that no transfer by a raiyat of his right in his holding, by mortgage or lease exceeding five years, or by sale, gift or any other contract or agreement, "shall be valid to any extent", and a Scheduled Tribe raiyat may transfer only with the previous sanction of the Deputy Commissioner and only to another member of the Scheduled Tribes. Under section 20(1) of the Santal Parganas Tenancy Act, 1949, no such transfer is valid "unless the right to transfer has been recorded in the record of rights". We will not draft anything that dresses a transfer up as a spelling correction, and you should not want us to. For anything beyond the first category, what you need is an advocate, not a documentation desk, and this page says so plainly rather than selling you a file.
Three Things People Call a Name Correction in Jamabandi or Khatiyan
Almost every enquiry we get on this subject arrives using the same three words, and it turns out to be one of three very different problems. Sorting that out in the first five minutes saves families years.
| What you are actually facing | What it really is, and who deals with it |
|---|---|
| 1. Your own name is misspelt on an entry that is already recorded as yours. Hembrom as Hembram, Oraon as Uraon, a Hindi spelling against an English one | A genuine correction. The owner is not in question and nobody else's rights move. It is a documentation job, proved against your own identity papers. The tribal surname position is on our tribal surname spelling correction page, and the two spellings problem on our Hindi to English name spelling difference page |
| 2. The land is in your father's or grandfather's name and you want yours on it | Not a correction at all. Nothing on the record is wrong. The record is right and the owner has changed. That is succession and mutation, a different application before a different officer, and it turns on who the heirs are rather than on how a name is spelt |
| 3. The land is somebody else's and a name change is being suggested as the way to move it into yours | A transfer. In Jharkhand this runs into section 46 of the CNT Act or section 20 of the SPT Act, set out in the next section. We will not draft it, whatever it is called, and anybody offering to is offering you something that can be undone |
| Your father's name is wrong on the entry, while your own is right | Still category one where ownership is not in question, but treat it carefully, because a parent's name on a land record is often how succession is traced. Our father name spelling mismatch page deals with the documents side |
| The record shows a completely different person | Not a spelling matter and not a documentation matter. Something has gone wrong in substance, and that belongs with an advocate from the first day, not with a correction application |
| The name matches but the plot details do not | A different kind of record problem altogether, and nothing this page can help with. Area, boundary and plot number questions are survey matters |
The Tenancy Acts That Decide What Can Be Done to a Jharkhand Land Record
Read this section even if you are only fixing a spelling, because it explains why an Anchal office is careful with land names in a way that a bank or a school never is. These Acts exist to stop land being taken from the people recorded on it, and every officer applying them knows that a name is how land moves.
| The provision | What it says, and what it means for a name on the record |
|---|---|
| Section 46, Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, the general bar | That "no transfer by a raiyat of his right in his holding or any portion thereof, by mortgage or lease for any period exceeding five years, or by sale, gift or any other contract or agreement, shall be valid to any extent". Read those last five words twice. Not merely irregular, not merely open to challenge. Not valid to any extent |
| Section 46, the narrow door for a Scheduled Tribe raiyat | It enables an occupancy raiyat belonging to the Scheduled Tribes to transfer his lands with the previous sanction of the Deputy Commissioner, and to another member of the Scheduled Tribes. Two conditions, both of them hard, and neither of them satisfied by writing a different name on a record |
| Section 20(1), Santal Parganas Tenancy Act, 1949 | That "no transfer by a raiyat of his right in his holding or any portion thereof, by sale, gift, mortgage, will, lease or any other contract or agreement, shall be valid unless the right to transfer has been recorded in the record of rights". So in the Santal Parganas districts the question is decided by what the record of rights itself says about the right to transfer |
| What this means for the word "correction" | A correction fixes how an existing owner's name is written. It cannot move a right from one person to another. Where a name change would do that, these sections are what it has to satisfy, and a correction application is not the route |
| Delay has a legal price here | As reported by a legal news service in March 2026, the Jharkhand High Court in Parimal Kumar Mahato v. State of Jharkhand held that section 46 does not apply to transfers made before its introduction in 1947, and that a restoration application filed after forty five years was barred. We cite that as a report of a judgment, not as a settled rule for your case, and the practical lesson is that sitting on a land problem is itself a decision |
Khatiyan, Jamabandi and Register-II: What Each Paper Actually Is
People use these words as if they mean the same thing, and then ask for a correction in the wrong one. Here is how we explain it to families, in plain words.
| The paper | What it is, in practice |
|---|---|
| Khatiyan, the record of rights | The record of rights prepared at a survey and settlement. It is a historical document, made at a particular time, describing who held what then. Because it was prepared at a survey, it is not a page that somebody at a counter simply retypes on request |
| Jamabandi, in ordinary speech | How most families in Jharkhand refer to the current holding record for a khata, the living page as against the old survey record. When somebody says their jamabandi has the wrong name, they usually mean the current entry |
| Register-II, or Panji-II | The register commonly asked for at an Anchal office and viewed on the State land records portal. In our experience this is the record people are actually shown when they ask to see their land online |
| Rent receipt, or malguzari receipt | Evidence of rent paid against a holding. Families often treat it as proof of ownership. It is a receipt, and it is useful supporting paper, but a receipt is not the record of rights |
| Registered deed | The document by which land was transferred, registered at the registry office. A deed and a record entry are two different things, and one does not automatically update the other. Our name change in property documents page deals with the deed side |
| Bhu Naksha, the map | The plot map. Nothing to do with names. If your problem is boundaries or area, no name correction touches it |
What We Will Not Do on a Jharkhand Land Record, and Why We Say So Here
No other page on this website has a section like this. Land needs one, because the requests we refuse on this subject are requests somebody else will happily accept.
Dress a transfer up as a spelling correction
Putting a buyer's name on a holding by calling it a clerical error. This is the request we refuse most often, and section 46 is why. A transfer that is not valid to any extent is not made valid by the form it was filed on.
Draft a correction where there is no error
Where the record correctly names your father or grandfather, nothing is wrong with it. We will not apply to correct a record that is right. We will tell you it is a succession question.
Advise on tribal land transferability
Whether a particular holding can be transferred at all, to whom, and with what sanction, is a question of law about your specific land. That is an advocate's opinion, and we will not offer one.
Work for the other side of a family dispute
Where two branches of a family both claim a holding, this is not documentation. We step back and say so, rather than drafting for whoever called first.
Print a procedure we cannot verify
We do not publish which officer, which form, what charge or how many days for a Jharkhand mutation, because we could not verify it from a Government source. Other pages on this subject do print it. Check theirs against the office.
Promise an outcome on a land record
On a school certificate we can usually tell you what will happen. On land we cannot, and anybody who does is guessing with your money. We will tell you what your papers show and what the honest options are.
How to Get a Spelling Corrected in a Jharkhand Land Record, Step by Step
These steps are for category one only, where the person named is the owner and only the spelling is wrong. For the other two categories, step one is an advocate.
Confirm you are in category one
The person named on the record is the person who owns it, and the only problem is how the name is written. Write that sentence down. If you cannot, stop here.
Get the current record, not just the old one
Ask the Anchal office for the current entry for your khata, and take the old khatiyan as well. You need to know what each one says before you ask for anything.
Settle the form of your name everywhere else first
Land is the last record to correct, not the first. If your Aadhaar and your caste certificate disagree with each other, fix that before going anywhere near the land record.
Decide the one true spelling of the surname
For a tribal surname this is the whole job. Hembrom or Hembram, Oraon or Uraon, Tirkey or Tirki, Kujur or Minz. Pick one, and use exactly that on every paper from now on.
Ask the Anchal office what it needs, in writing
Its own requirement, not a list from a website. We print no form number, charge or timeline here because we could not verify one, so the office's written answer is your list.
Quote the entry exactly as it stands
The khata number, the plot numbers, the name letter by letter as recorded, and the name as it should read. An application that paraphrases the wrong entry is useless at a counter comparing it against the register.
Attach your own identity documents
This is the whole case. A correction is proved by showing that the person recorded and the person in your documents are one person, with one settled spelling.
Hand in two copies and keep one stamped
With the office received stamp on your copy. On land records, more than anywhere else, keep every acknowledgement. Years later it is the only proof the application happened.
Read the corrected entry when it comes
Letter by letter, and check the khata and plot numbers did not move while the name was being fixed. Then keep a copy with your deed and your receipts.
Take an advocate the moment it stops being a spelling
If the office raises ownership, succession or transferability, that is your signal. It is no longer documentation and we will say so ourselves rather than keep your file open.
Where a whole family carries the same surname spelling across many papers, our one public notice for several certificates page explains how that is handled together, and where the mismatch is holding up a Government verification, see name mismatch at document verification.
Central Gazette Process for a Name From Jharkhand, and Where It Fits a Land Record
No district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, so a genuine file goes from Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Deoghar or anywhere else in the state to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, and the notice publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. As reported in July 2025 the Finance Department stopped personal name change notifications from the Jharkhand Government Press with immediate effect, so there is no state alternative to fall back on.
The Eight Steps of a Name File Sent From Jharkhand
Settle the final name first
Letter by letter, with the spacing you want, and then use exactly that everywhere, Aadhaar included. A corrigendum after publication is a second fee and a second wait.
Pick the category, then its proforma
A genuine change of name is change of Name Adult or Major. A wrongly typed spelling is the public notice for a wrongly written name. Twelve categories exist and only one is yours.
Type the proforma in duplicate
Two originals with two witnesses giving signature, full name, address and mobile number on both copies. A change of name is signed in the old name; a public notice is signed in your own name.
Fill the employment field if it is a change of name
The adult proforma asks for the post of the applicant and the office or company name, a field the public notice form does not have. Salaried applicants leave it blank and the file comes back.
Publish and keep the original paper
One of the daily local leading newspapers, carrying both names in full, the father or husband name and the residential address. The whole original paper goes in the file, not a cutting.
Pay only through BharatKosh
The Non Tax Receipt Portal and nowhere else since October 2018. Select the Department of Publication by name, read the amount the portal shows on the day, pay in your own name and print the e-receipt.
Check every date, then post it yourself
Nothing in the file older than one year. Personally or by post or courier only, never through an agent or advocate. Photocopy everything first, because nothing sent in comes back.
Read the notice, then update in the right order
Check every word the day it publishes, download the e-Gazette copy of that Part IV issue, and then work through Aadhaar and the caste certificate first, and the land record last of all.
The Five Papers in the File, and What Is Checked in Each
| The paper | What is checked in it, clause by clause |
|---|---|
| 1. The proforma, in duplicate | That it is the right category format; the existing full name exactly as your documents carry it; the new full name exactly as settled; the father or husband name; the full address with pin code; the post and office or company name where it is a change of name; the signature in the right name for the category; two witnesses complete with signature, full name, address and mobile number |
| 2. The affidavit or undertaking | The same names and address as the proforma, word for word, with wording matching the category. On Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper as our safe default |
| 3. The original newspaper | The original paper, not a cutting; the paper name and date of publication visible; both names carried; the father or husband name and residential address; dated within the last year |
| 4. Photographs, identity proof and any category paper | Two self attested passport photographs; self attested identity and address proof matching the proforma address; both witnesses proofs; and, in a public notice file, the attested photocopy of the connected document carrying the error |
| 5. The CD, its certificate and the BharatKosh receipt | MS Word, without the witness portion, with the name typed in place of the signature; the certificate that the hard copy and the soft copy are the same; the forwarding letter to the Controller of Publication with a telephone number and email; the e-receipt |
The posting detail is on the sending the file to Delhi page, the change of name wording on the proforma format page and the public notice wording on the public notice proforma page, the charge by category on the fee and undertaking page, the reasons files come back on the rejection reasons page, and the download on the download page.
What a Jamabandi and Khatiyan Name Correction Costs in Jharkhand
| Item | Cost | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Working out which of the three categories you are in | Nothing, and it is the most valuable step on the page. Send us the papers and we will tell you, including when the answer is that you need an advocate rather than us | Our first reply |
| Getting copies of the record from the Anchal office | The office's own charge. We do not print it, because we could not verify a current figure from a Government source, and land is not a subject to estimate on | Set by the office. We print no timeline we have not verified |
| The correction application itself | Again the office's own charge, if any. We print no form number and no fee. Other pages on this keyword do print both. Check theirs against the office before you rely on either | Set by the office |
| Correcting your identity documents first, which is usually the real work | Aadhaar charges a fee per attempt with no refund and limits how often a name may be updated. A caste certificate has its own route and its own charge. Decide the final spelling before you start | Set by each office |
| An advocate, for categories two and three | Whatever they charge, and it is money well spent. This is the one page on this site where we tell you to spend on a lawyer rather than on us. Succession, mutation and transferability are legal questions about your land | Set by the matter |
| Affidavit, where the office asks for one | Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper and the notary charge. Two originals, because the office keeps one. Do not buy it before somebody asks | The same day |
| Government printing charge, only in a genuine change of your own name | The guidelines print Rs 1,100 for an adult change of name and Rs 1,400 for a public notice, for FY 2016 to 2017, each with the caveat that the charge varies each financial year and from case to case. What BharatKosh shows on the payment screen the day you pay is the figure that counts | Part IV publishes weekly, so allow several weeks from posting |
| Our charge | Quoted on your papers before you pay anything, and confirmed in writing. We print no service price on any page of this site, and on this subject we will sometimes tell you there is no work for us to do | |
Myths About Name Correction in Jharkhand Land Records
| What people are told | What is actually so |
|---|---|
| A gazette notification will put your name on the land | It will not, and this is the most expensive myth on the page. A gazette is a published notice about a person's name. It is not a title document and it does not satisfy section 46 of the CNT Act or section 20 of the SPT Act |
| The land is in grandfather's name, so the name needs correcting | Nothing on that record is wrong. The record is right and the owner has changed, which is succession and mutation, not spelling. Applying to correct a correct record wastes months and looks bad on the file |
| A registered deed automatically changes the record | Do not assume it. A deed and a record entry are two different papers, and on protected land a deed still has to answer to the tenancy Acts. Check what the record actually says today rather than what you expect it to say |
| Tribal land can be transferred if the paperwork is done properly | Section 46 says no transfer by a raiyat, by sale, gift or any other contract or agreement, "shall be valid to any extent". Where the raiyat is a Scheduled Tribe member, a transfer needs the previous sanction of the Deputy Commissioner and may be only to another member of the Scheduled Tribes. Paperwork is not a way round that |
| Rent receipts prove the land is yours | A receipt proves rent was paid. It is useful supporting paper and it is not the record of rights. Families have relied on a bundle of receipts for decades and then found the record says something else |
| Nothing can be done about an old khatiyan, so a correction is pointless | Not so, where you are the person recorded and only the spelling is wrong. That is a genuine correction and it is worth doing, because a surname spelt two ways across your land record and your caste certificate is a problem waiting for the worst moment |
| Hembram and Hembrom are just two ways of writing it, so it does not matter | On most records it matters little. On land it matters, because a name is how a right is traced. Settle one spelling, on our Hembrom or Hembram page, and carry it everywhere |
| Fix the land record first, since that is the important one | Backwards. Land is the last record to correct. Settle your Aadhaar and your caste certificate first, because the land correction is proved against them |
| Somebody at the Anchal office can sort it out informally | On land, an informal fix is the beginning of a much longer problem. As a reported 2026 Jharkhand High Court matter shows, a restoration application brought forty five years later was held barred, which cuts both ways: irregular papers are hard to undo, and so is delay |
| A documentation consultancy can handle the whole land matter | We cannot, and we say so. A spelling we handle. Succession, mutation and transferability belong with an advocate. Anybody in our trade claiming otherwise is selling beyond their competence on the most valuable thing you own |
Key Terms in a Jharkhand Land Record Name Correction
| Term | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Khatiyan | The record of rights prepared at a survey and settlement. A historical document describing who held what at that time, not a page retyped on request |
| Record of rights | The formal record of who holds land and on what terms. Under section 20(1) of the SPT Act it is the record of rights that decides whether a right to transfer exists at all |
| Jamabandi | How families in Jharkhand usually refer to the current holding record for a khata, as against the old survey record |
| Register-II, or Panji-II | The register commonly asked for at an Anchal office and viewed on the State land records portal. In our experience the page people are shown when they look up their land |
| Khata and khesra | The holding number and the plot number. Quote both in the first line of any application, because a name means nothing to the office without them |
| Raiyat | The word the tenancy Acts use for the holder of the land. The person whose rights sections 46 and 20 protect |
| Anchal office | The circle office dealing with land matters locally. Where the record is held and where an application is handed in |
| Mutation, or dakhil kharij | Recording a change of holder, for example after a succession or a sale. Not a name correction, and the confusion between the two is what this page exists to clear up |
| Section 46, CNT Act | The bar on transfer by a raiyat, and the narrow permission for a Scheduled Tribe raiyat to transfer with the previous sanction of the Deputy Commissioner to another member of the Scheduled Tribes |
| Section 20, SPT Act | The Santal Parganas provision under which no transfer is valid unless the right to transfer is recorded in the record of rights |
| Previous sanction | Permission obtained before the transfer, not afterwards and not promised. A transfer made without it is not cured by the promise of it |
| Received stamp | The office acknowledgement on your own copy. On land records, keep every one of these permanently |
Land Record Name Correction Help Across Jharkhand
The Anchal office is local to the land, and which tenancy Act applies depends on where the land is, since the Santal Parganas districts sit under a different Act from the Chotanagpur area. Reading the record, telling you which of the three categories you are in, settling which spelling of your surname should stand across all your papers, and drafting a genuine correction application is done on your scans over WhatsApp, for every district. Where the answer is that you need an advocate, we say so in the first reply.
District pages are linked from the services page.
Send the record and we will tell you which of the three it is
Send the current land record for the khata, the old khatiyan if you have it, any rent receipts, any registered deed, and the identity documents of the person named, including the caste certificate where there is one. Tell us the district, because the Santal Parganas districts sit under a different Act. Our first reply tells you which of the three categories you are in, whether anything on your record is actually wrong, which of your own documents must be settled before the land record is touched, and which spelling of your surname should stand everywhere. If the honest answer is that you need an advocate and not us, that is what the first reply will say, and there will be no charge for it. Details on the contact page.
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Jamabandi and Khatiyan Name Correction: Frequently Asked Questions
Can a gazette notification get my name onto a land record?
The land is in my grandfather's name. Is that a name correction?
My surname is spelt Hembram on the record but Hembrom on my documents. Can you fix that?
Can tribal land in Jharkhand be transferred if the paperwork is done properly?
Somebody has offered to get the name changed on my land for a fee. Should I?
Which office do I apply to, and what is the form?
Should I fix the land record first or my own documents first?
I have rent receipts going back forty years. Is that enough?
My registered deed has my name. Why does the record still show the seller?
Does it matter that the land record carries a Hindi spelling of my name?
My father's name is wrong on the record but mine is right.
How much of this can you actually do for me?
Official Sources on Jharkhand Land Records and Tenancy Law
- India CodeFor the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908 and the Santal Parganas Tenancy Act, 1949 themselves, which is where the sections quoted on this page should be read in full before anybody relies on them.
- Studies in the Jharkhand Tenancy Laws, Centre for Rural Studies, LBSNAAThe study by C. Ashokvardhan, published by the Centre for Rural Studies at the national administrative academy, which quotes section 46 of the CNT Act and section 20(1) of the SPT Act as set out on this page.
- Government of JharkhandFor the Revenue, Registration and Land Reforms Department and the State land records services, where the Anchal office procedure and any current charges should be confirmed.
- Department of Land Resources, Government of IndiaFor the national land records modernisation framework that the State land records portals sit under.
- Indian KanoonFor reported judgments on section 46 of the CNT Act and on restoration proceedings, including the matters referred to on this page.
- Unique Identification Authority of IndiaFor the Aadhaar name update route and the limits on how often a name may be updated, which is the step that comes before any land record.
- Ministry of Tribal AffairsFor the wider framework on Scheduled Tribe land rights that the tenancy Acts of this State sit within.
- Department of PublicationFor the twelve gazette categories and their proformas, in the separate case where your own name is genuinely being changed.
- BharatKosh, the Non Tax Receipt PortalThe only route for the Government printing charge since October 2018, and the only place the amount of the day can be read.
A Land Record Name Correction in Eight Lines
The short version
- A land record says who owns this, not who you are.
- Three things are called a name correction and only one is one.
- A wrong spelling on your own entry is a genuine correction.
- Land in an ancestor's name is succession, not spelling.
- Putting somebody else's land in your name is a transfer.
- Section 46 says such a transfer is not valid to any extent.
- A gazette notice never puts a name on a holding.
- Beyond a spelling, you need an advocate and not us.
Send the record and we will tell you honestly whether there is anything to correct.
Often there is not, and the record is simply in an ancestor's name. That answer costs nothing, and it saves a family paying for an application that cannot be granted.