Easy Jamabandi Punjab: Online Land Records Portal for Jamabandi, Mutation & Fard
Punjab has launched Easy Jamabandi, a state-level digital platform aimed at making land record services transparent, accessible, and corruption-free. Introduced in June 2025 under the Aam Aadmi Party government, this initiative is part of the revenue department’s broader land governance reform.
What Is Easy Jamabandi?
Easy Jamabandi is an online portal (easyjamabandi.punjab.gov.in) offering multiple land record services digitally, reducing dependency on physical visits to revenue officers or patwaris. The portal’s motto is “No delays. No corruption.”
Here are the primary services provided via Easy Jamabandi:
- Jamabandi copies delivered via WhatsApp (digitally signed, QR code verified)
- Online Intkal (mutation) service – change of ownership after sale or inheritance
- Rapat entries – entry of daily land records/orders/court orders etc.
- Fard Badar – correction of typographical or clerical errors in land records, such as misspelled names, incorrect owner information etc.
- Subscription service: Landowners can subscribe (for a fee) to receive alerts whenever changes are proposed in their land records
Why It Was Needed: Curbing Corruption & Delays
Historically, land record services in many states (including Punjab) have suffered from issues such as:
- Clerical errors / mistakes in record-keeping (misspellings, wrong owner names) that were hard to correct.
- Physical visits, long queues, delays in accessing land documents or applying for mutation.
- Opacity in changes – landowners often had no way of knowing if someone tampered with or made changes in records without their knowledge.
Easy Jamabandi seeks to address all of these by digitizing records, enabling online correction, providing alerts, and reducing human-mediated steps.
How Easy Jamabandi Works
Here is the typical process and features:
- Accessing the portal
Users can visit the Easy Jamabandi website or use helpline services (e.g. 1076) or Sewa Kendras. - Selecting service
Choose the service needed — request Jamabandi copy, mutation (Intkal), correction (Fard Badar), rapat entry, or subscribe for alerts. - Submitting application
For correction requests or mutation, uploading required documents and entering details via the portal. - Digital verification & processing
Digital signatures, QR codes, and online dashboards track progress. Patwaris, Kanungo, Tehsildar’s roles are preserved but with stricter timelines. E.g. mutation to happen within 30 days. - Delivery of records / notifications
Users can receive Jamabandi documents via WhatsApp, email or download from the portal. Alerts/subscriptions for any change in land record for one’s khewat. - Complaint mechanism
In case of discrepancy, harassment or perceived corruption by officials, users can raise complaints online rather than physically going to offices.
Key Benefits of Easy Jamabandi
- Reduced corruption — fewer manual steps, less interaction with middle-men.
- Faster turnaround — services like corrections, mutation, etc., time-bounded (e.g. Intkal / mutation within 30 days).
- Transparency — QR codes, digital signatures, notifications make record changes traceable.
- Ease of access — people can access services from home, via WhatsApp or portal, with fewer visits to revenue offices.
- Less burden on officials — digitization of majority of records (99% villages already digitized) reduces paperwork.
Impact: What It Means for Landowners
- Landowners no longer have to approach Patwaris or Fard Centres for basic documents or corrections.
- Mistakes like name misspellings or ownership errors can now be corrected more easily via Fard Badar.
- Ability to subscribe to land record alerts means changes are visible, limiting unauthorized alterations.
- Increased trust in land record system; less fear of being exploited.
Conclusion
Punjab’s Easy Jamabandi portal marks a significant shift in how land record services are delivered. By putting essential services like Jamabandi copies, mutation, error corrections and record subscriptions online, it drastically reduces scope for corruption, improves accountability, and makes land ownership more secure for citizens.
For individuals owning land, buying, inheriting or needing to update land records, Easy Jamabandi promises greater ease, speed, and transparency. These reforms, if implemented properly and made accessible, could serve as a model for other states seeking to modernize land administration and curb corruption.
FAQs: Easy Jamabandi Portal
1. What is “Easy Jamabandi”?
It’s Punjab’s online portal offering land record services (Jamabandi copy, mutation, corrections etc.) digitally to reduce delays and curb corruption.
2. How can I get my Jamabandi copy via this portal?
You visit easyjamabandi.punjab.gov.in, select the Jamabandi service, input required details, and choose ‘WhatsApp te Jamabandi’ or portal download. It will be digitally signed and QR-verified.
3. What is “Intkal (mutation)” service?
‘Intkal’ refers to updating the land ownership record when property is sold or inherited. Under Easy Jamabandi, mutation requests can be filed online and are processed within a defined timeline (30 days) in many cases.
4. What is “Fard Badar”?
Fard Badar is the process of correcting clerical or typographical errors in land record documents — e.g. spelling mistakes, name changes, owner name mismatches. Easy Jamabandi allows online application for this.
5. What is Rapat Entry?
Rapat entries refer to daily orders or updates from courts, revenue department etc., that affect land records. With the portal, such entries are made accessible digitally.
6. Can NRIs use this service?
Yes — NRIs landowners can access many services online. They can choose options like WhatsApp delivery, file mutation etc., without physically being present. The government may also consider video conferencing for some services.
7. Does this cost anything?
Most services like getting Jamabandi copies via portal are free. However, the subscription service (to get alerts for any changes in land records) is chargeable (Rs. 500 per Khewat annually) as per current provisions.
8. How long does mutation / correction take?
Mutation (Intkal), as per announcements, should be completed within 30 days. Corrections (Fard Badar) also have time limits. Delays may occur if documents are incomplete.
9. Are all villages covered under digitization?
Most villages (about 99%) already have land records digitized. For remaining villages, the government has said the digitization will be completed in the next couple of months.
- Read More Faqs on: Bhulekh Punjab Faqs
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