How to get and download your SVAMITVA property card

Your SVAMITVA property card is issued by your State, not by the Centre, so how you get it depends on where you live. Most owners receive a printed card from the State. Many can also get an electronic copy, through an SMS link, through DigiLocker, or from the State’s land-records portal. Each route has its own official link, and a missing or wrong card has its own fix.

There is no single national website where anyone can download any card. The national portal at svamitva.nic.in shows progress reports by state, district and village. It does not replace the State’s own record.

First check: has your village reached the card stage?

A card exists only after your village has been notified, surveyed by drone, checked on the ground, and taken through the claims and objections stage. Before looking online, find out where your village stands:

1. Ask locally. The Gram Panchayat secretary, patwari, lekhpal or talathi, or the tehsil office, will know whether cards have been prepared and when distribution is planned.
2. Check the national dashboard. The SVAMITVA national portal publishes reports by stage. These include Drone Survey Completed, Chunna Marking Completed, Maps Provided For Enquiry, Property Card Prepared and Property Card Distributed. You can filter them by state, district and tehsil to see whether your village is listed.
3. Use the state lookup. Our state property-card lookup shows your state’s card name, the portal that holds the record, and how far the scheme had reached by the latest official figures.

Four ways cards reach owners

Physical distribution by the State

The State Revenue Department prints the cards and hands them over, often at village distribution events and sometimes at large state or national events. On 18 January 2025, for example, 65 lakh cards were distributed across more than 50,000 villages in ten states and two Union Territories. If you missed an event, your card is normally held at the tehsil or with the Gram Panchayat. Take identity proof, and ask for the card in the name recorded during the survey.

When you get the card, check straight away:

• the owner’s name, and every co-owner’s name;
• the plot or property number and its area;
• the map or boundary sketch, if printed;
• the village, tehsil and district.

If anything is wrong, raise it in writing with the tehsil at once. See objections and disputes.

E-cards through an SMS link

When the first cards were distributed in October 2020, about one lakh owners in 763 villages could download their cards through an SMS link sent to their mobile phones, before physical distribution by the States. The national portal also records later rounds of e-distribution of property cards. If you received such a message, open the link only if it comes from an official sender and leads to a government domain. Never forward one-time passwords to anyone.

DigiLocker

The scheme guidelines encourage States to connect property cards to DigiLocker so owners can see them online at any time. The Ministry’s reform booklet says that property cards are available in the DigiLocker app, and that beneficiaries can view and download them there.

To check, sign in to DigiLocker with your own account, search the issued documents for your state’s Revenue or Land Records Department, and look for a property card or record of rights. Not every state has connected its cards, so an empty search does not mean you have no card.

State portals that hold the record

DNH means Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Sources: Ministry of Panchayati Raj Expert Committee report (2022); the Mahabhulekh and SVAMITVA UP pages as published on 12 November 2026.

Madhya Pradesh. The finalised Adhikar Abhilekh is published on MP Bhulekh for download. MP also lets you file objections online and download orders through its revenue case system.

Maharashtra. Mahabhulekh offers 7/12 and 8A extracts and the property card (मालमत्ता पत्रक) for viewing. Follow the portal’s search screens for your district, taluka and village.

Gujarat, Punjab and Uttarakhand. These states store and update property cards on AnyRoR, the Punjab Abadi records portal and Uttarakhand Bhulekh respectively. Each portal has its own search screens.

Uttar Pradesh: Gharauni help

Gharaunis are generated on the SVAMITVA Uttar Pradesh portal, which is managed by the Board of Revenue. Most of the portal’s functions are for officials. If you cannot find your Gharauni, contact your lekhpal or tehsil, or call the portal’s helpline on 7080100588 (Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 6 pm). By 5 August 2026, about 1.04 crore Gharaunis had been distributed in the state.

Checking the national dashboard reports

The national portal’s reports are useful for one thing: confirming that your village has reached a given stage. If the Property Card Prepared report lists your village, the card should exist with the State, even if you have not received it. If the Property Card Distributed report lists it, ask the tehsil where your copy is. The reports do not issue certified copies, and the portal does not replace the State’s record.

Card not received or details wrong

If the tehsil does not respond, write to the District Collector’s office. You can also lodge a grievance on CPGRAMS, the Government of India’s public grievance portal, choosing the Ministry of Panchayati Raj or your state government. Corrections to the record itself are made under your state’s revenue law, so the tehsil or revenue court is the place for those. See objections and disputes.

Keeping your card safe

• Keep the original in a dry, safe place, with a photocopy and a phone photo of both sides.
• Write down the property number and the village, tehsil and district exactly as printed. You will need them when you speak to the tehsil, a bank or a state portal.
• If the card is lost or damaged, ask the tehsil how to get a duplicate copy under your state’s rules. Where your state keeps the record online, the online entry remains the official record.
• When you sell, gift, divide or inherit the property, record the change at the revenue office, so the record stays in the right name.

Fake download sites and fees: warnings

• SVAMITVA has no application form and no registration fee. Any website or agent offering to “apply for SVAMITVA” or to “register for a property card” for money is not part of the scheme.
• Be wary of websites that claim you can download any state’s card from one national page, or that ask for your Aadhaar number, OTP or bank details to “fetch” a card.
• Use only government domains, ending in gov.in or nic.in, and DigiLocker.
• Never share an OTP with anyone who calls about your property card.

Frequently asked questions