Seven checks before you pay for an LPS plot

The seven checks, one by one

1. Get the plot's address right. You need the village, the layout unit, the plot number, the size, and whether it is residential or commercial. Everything below depends on these. If a seller will not put them in writing, stop there.
2. Look it up on the CRDA site. Know Your Plot shows which farmers pooled land in that village and what has since happened to each plot. Final lottery details shows who won the plot in the draw. The LPS layouts page tells you the unit is real.
3. Ask for the 9.14 certificate. People call it that because of the rule it comes from. It is the final allotment certificate, and it is the proof the allotment is settled. On lottery day everyone gets a provisional certificate. That is not the same paper and it is not enough.
4. Follow the deed from the farmer to today. The farmer's registration is where the title starts. Every sale after it must be a registered sale deed. An agreement of sale is not a deed. A general power of attorney is not a deed either.
5. Take an EC and read it. From IGRS AP, for the whole period since the plot was first registered. It will show any loan taken against the plot, any court order, and every sale. For older farmland people usually ask for fifteen years. For an LPS plot, ask from the day the plot came into existence.
6. Check the old survey number on Mee Bhoomi. The pahani for the original land should show the same farmer who signed the pooling agreement, and it settles whether the land was dry or jareebu. That matters, because jareebu land came back with a bigger commercial plot. Settle it here, not by taking anyone's word.
7. Go and stand on it. Walk the boundary with CRDA's GIS layout open on your phone. Ask the unit office if a road or a drain is cutting the plot and whether there is a case running. Take photographs of the survey stones while you are there.

When to walk away

• All you are shown is a provisional certificate or a lottery slip.
• The person selling holds a power of attorney, and there is no registered deed from the farmer.
• You are told the land was jareebu, but Mee Bhoomi says dry.
• The size on the deed does not fit the pooling arithmetic. Plots come out of 1,000, 450 and 250 square yards, or a recorded share of them.
• The unit had road-cut plots re-allotted in the January 2026 draw or a later one, and nobody will give you a written line from CRDA saying this plot was not one of them.

What this will and will not tell you

These checks tell you whether the plot exists, whether the person selling it owns it, and whether anything is recorded against it. They are the difference between buying a plot and buying a promise.

They will not tell you whether the price is fair, or whether the road outside will be built next year or in five years. For that, look at what is actually finished on that street today. Our risks page sets out what else can move, and a lawyer you choose yourself should give you a written title opinion before you pay.