Meebhoomi, 1B and Adangal: Reading Andhra Pradesh Land Records

Andhra Pradesh keeps two records for every parcel of agricultural land, and buyers routinely pull one and assume it covers both.

1B tells you who owns it. Adangal tells you what happened on it. You need both, and they answer different questions.

The portal

Meebhoomi (meebhoomi.ap.gov.in) is the state's public-facing land records portal, run by the Revenue Department. Access is free.

Behind it sits Webland, the database the revenue administration actually operates on. Meebhoomi is the window; Webland is the room. For a buyer, Meebhoomi is where you look, and the tahsildar's office is where you go for a certified copy that carries weight.

You can usually search by district, mandal and village, then by survey number, khata number or pattadar name. Menu labels change, so work from the live site rather than a screenshot in a guide.

1B -- the Record of Rights

This is the ownership record. It gives you:

• The pattadar's name -- check it character by character against the seller's identity documents
• The khata number
• The survey number and sub-division
• The extent
• The nature of the holding

Where land is held jointly, every name on the 1B must be party to the sale. Inherited agricultural land in Andhra is very commonly held by several siblings, and a sale executed by one of them is not a clean sale. This is the same failure described in chain of title, and it surfaces years later when an omitted heir appears.

Adangal -- the cultivation record

Also called the Pahani, this is the working record of what the land did:

• Crop grown, season by season
• Who cultivated it
• Land classification -- dry, wet, garden
• Irrigation source
• Charges and loans where recorded

Two fields repay close reading.

The cultivator. If someone other than the owner has been farming the land over a period, understand why before you go further. Recorded cultivation by a third party can create tenancy protections that survive your purchase, and the seller's assurance that they will leave is not a legal position. See leasing and tenancy risk.

The crop history. This is independent, government-recorded evidence of whether the land was genuinely cultivated and what it supported. A parcel showing continuous paddy has water. A parcel with blank entries across several seasons was not being farmed, whatever the seller says about its productivity. It is the cheapest reality check available on an agricultural purchase.

The resurvey, and why your survey number may have moved

Andhra Pradesh has been running a comprehensive land resurvey, issuing updated records and revised numbering for resurveyed villages.

The consequence for a buyer is specific and easy to miss: in a resurveyed village, the survey number on older documents will not match the current one. Run an Encumbrance Certificate search under the current number and it will come back clean, because it is searching for a parcel that did not exist under that number when the older transactions were registered.

So: ask whether the village has been resurveyed. If it has, obtain the correlation statement mapping old numbers to new, and pull an Encumbrance Certificate under both. Missing this is the most likely way to run a thorough search against the wrong parcel.

What Meebhoomi does not settle

It is not title. The revenue record reflects the state's view of possession. Ownership comes from the chain of registered deeds, and where the two disagree the disagreement is the finding.

It does not show unregistered claims. Oral partitions and informal family arrangements are common in Andhra agricultural land and leave no trace on any portal.

It does not show prohibited categories reliably. Assigned land, endowment land and government land carry restrictions on transfer, and sales in breach have been unwound. Check the classification explicitly and take advice where anything is unclear.

It does not prove the parcel is where you think it is. For that you need the FMB sketch and a walk round the boundary -- see verifying a survey number and the site visit checklist.

A note on Bhu Bharati

If you searched for "Bhu Bharati Andhra Pradesh", you probably want Telangana. Bhu Bharati is Telangana's system, which replaced Dharani under a 2025 Act. The two states shared an administration until 2014 and have diverged completely. See Bhu Bharati explained.

The rest of the sequence

Meebhoomi is step one. Then: a thirty-year Encumbrance Certificate, the chain of title, any power of attorney in the chain, ceiling limits, then stamp duty and registration and mutation.

Full state walkthrough: buying farmland in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Portal links for every state: the land record portal directory.

Browse listings: farmland near Guntur, agricultural land around Vijayawada, or farmland near Kurnool.

This article is general information, not legal advice. Portal features and resurvey status change -- verify current requirements with a local property lawyer before making any purchase decision.