A Patta is the Tamil Nadu government-issued ownership record showing the registered owner, survey number, sub-division, and area for a parcel of land. A Chitta is the land-revenue record showing classification (Punjai dryland or Nanjai wetland) and tax liability. Since 2015, the Tamil Nadu government merged Patta and Chitta into a single unified document — when you search Patta-Chitta online via the TN eServices portal, you receive both records on one extract.
Tamil Nadu merged Patta and Chitta into a single unified document in 2015. Patta-Chitta is now downloadable for free via the TN eServices portal (eservices.tn.gov.in) for any rural survey number.
Source: Tamil Nadu Land Records Department
Procedure to retrieve a Tamil Nadu Patta-Chitta extract via the TN eServices portal using district, taluk, village, and survey number.
Visit https://eservices.tn.gov.in/eservicesnew/index.html. No login is required for the View flow.
Open portalSelect the appropriate option from the homepage. Rural land uses Patta-Chitta + FMB; urban land uses TSLR.
Drill down through the administrative hierarchy to your target village. Some districts have Tamil-only village names; toggle the language if needed.
Type the survey number with sub-division (e.g. 47/2). Solve the captcha and click Submit.
The extract shows owner name, survey number, area in acres, land classification (Punjai/Nanjai), and tax assessment. Download as PDF — viewing is free.
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A single Patta-Chitta lookup takes minutes. A team running 50–200 active leads with rotating mutation status across multiple districts and villages spends days every month chasing extracts and reconciling owner-name mismatches. Proquiro pulls Patta-Chitta at portfolio scale, flags Patta-vs-Sale-Deed owner mismatches automatically, and tracks mutation lifecycle.
Patta is the ownership record showing the registered owner, survey number, sub-division, and area.
Chitta is the revenue record showing land classification (Punjai or Nanjai) and tax assessment. Since 2015, both are issued as a single Patta-Chitta extract.
Yes. Online view via the TN eServices portal is free for any rural survey number.
A certified copy via Common Service Centre (CSC) costs around ₹60 per application; transfer or mutation requests range ₹100–₹300.
Mutation has not been completed. After a property transfer, the new owner must apply for Patta transfer at the Taluk Office or via TN eServices.
Until mutation is recorded, the Sale Deed proves the transfer but the Patta continues to show the seller as the registered owner — banks and DTCP routinely flag this.
Patta is the strongest publicly-recorded ownership document for Tamil Nadu rural land, but it is not absolute proof of ownership in the legal sense — title is established by the chain of registered Sale Deeds (verified via EC).
Banks and registration authorities require BOTH a current Patta-Chitta and a clean EC for a property to be marketable.
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