Bhunaksha Andhra Pradesh: Read the Land Map Before You Buy

Last updated: Oct 2026

Bhunaksha Andhra Pradesh is the state's cadastral map service. It shows where a survey number lies and what shape it has. It does not show who owns it.

• Map: boundary, shape, neighbouring survey numbers and map area
• 1-B record: owner and recorded extent, from the Meebhoomi portal
• Adangal: land type and use, from the same portal
• Gap test: (1-B extent − map extent) ÷ 1-B extent × 100

• Section 22A check: confirms the land is not on a list barred from registration

  
  

Check the prohibited-property list before you pay any advance. Then compare the map, the 1-B and the Adangal for the same survey number, and ask the seller to explain every gap.

It shows the cadastral map: the boundary of each survey number, its shape, its neighbours and its map extent. Meebhoomi, the state's land records portal at meebhoomi.ap.gov.in, holds the textual records.

FMB stands for Field Measurement Book, the sketch of a survey number's measured boundary. The 1-B is the Record of Rights (RoR).

Five steps take you from the portal to a saved map.

1. Open the Bhu Naksha service linked from Meebhoomi.
2. Select the district, zone or mandal, village and land type.
3. Select the survey number by clicking the plot or using the search bar.
4. Open the plot information, then click Map Report.

5. Save the report with the date of the check.

   
   

Read the survey number from the seller's papers, including any sub-division such as 123/2. A parent number and a sub-division number can show different extents.

Open all 3 records for the same survey number and compare the extent in each. Convert every figure to one unit first.

Formula used: Gap % = (1-B extent − map extent) ÷ 1-B extent × 100. One acre is 100 cents, and one acre is 4,046.86 square metres.

Trade-off: a small gap can come from map scale or rounding, but a larger gap can mean a strip was sold earlier or a neighbour has encroached. Paying first and asking later leaves you to carry the loss.

Ask the Mandal Revenue Officer or the village revenue staff to explain any gap in writing before you transfer money.

Section 22A of the Registration Act, 1908 lets the state bar registration of certain land. In Andhra Pradesh, the barred categories include government land, assigned land and endowment land. A parcel on the list cannot be registered, so a loan against it cannot be completed.

Run the check on the state registration department's prohibited-property search, using the district, mandal, village and survey number. The West Godavari district website, for example, publishes mandal-wise lists under Section 22A.

Run it before any advance, and run it again just before registration, because lists are updated.

Consider Srinivas, a 45-year-old trader in Vijayawada with a household income of Rs. 1.2 lakh a month and a CIBIL Score of 748, buying agricultural land advertised at Rs. 40 lakh an acre.

Formula used: Price for the mapped extent = price per acre × map extent.

The revenue office confirmed that 0.12 acre had been sold earlier. Srinivas renegotiated to Rs. 95.2 lakh. The prohibited-property search showed no entry for the survey number.

Bajaj Finance runs a legal check on the land records, so a map that agrees with the 1-B speeds the sanction. Read how the checks work in the guide to legal and technical verification.

Approval timelines can extend where the map and the 1-B disagree, and minimum income thresholds can differ by city. Check your home loan eligibility and read home loan fees and charges.