The register / edition 2026-08-04
What it costs to complete the transfer
A land transaction in Dholera costs more than the price of the land. It costs 4.9 per cent stamp duty and 1 per cent registration fee, charged on a government valuation base rather than on whatever the parties agree. This record computes that charge for every published rate band in all twenty two notified villages and shows the arithmetic line by line.
472 jantri bands computed22 notified villages17 of 35 charges have a published amountLast verified: 4 August 2026
01The two rates that decide the bill
Stamp duty is charged at 4.9 per cent under Article 20(a) of Schedule I to the Gujarat Stamp Act 1958. On agricultural land the charge falls on the consideration or the market value, whichever is higher. On non-agricultural land it falls on the market value whatever the parties write. The registration fee is a separate 1 per cent under the Registration Act 1908 read with the Gujarat Registration Rules 1970.
Those two percentages are the whole of what can be computed with confidence. Every other charge in a Gujarat land transaction is either a small fixed court fee, or an amount the government has not published. This site keeps the two apart.
02One worked example
Dholera village, the village that gives the region its name, one acre of non-irrigated agricultural land in the general road situation, which is the band the rate book applies to more of that village than any other.
| Line item | Input | Rate | Amount Rs. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Jantri rate, ASR 2011 | Non-irrigated, general situation | 6,11,080 | |
| 02 | Parcel taken | 1 acre, illustrative | x 1 | 6,11,080 |
| 03 | Valuation base | 6,11,080 x 1 acre | = | 6,11,080 |
| 04 | Stamp duty, Article 20(a) | on 6,11,080 | 4.9% | 29,943 |
| 05 | Registration fee, Article 20(a) | on 6,11,080 | 1% | 6,111 |
| Total statutory charge at registration | = | 36,054 | ||
Every figure above is derivable from the two inputs. The jantri rate is printed in the rate book, the parcel is declared, the percentages are statutory. Nothing is estimated.
The full Dholera record carries all 31 agricultural bands and 5 non-agricultural bands.
03The dearest bands in the region
| Village | Principal band Rs./acre | Stamp duty 4.9% Rs. | Registration 1% Rs. | Total Rs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kadipur | 9,26,740 | 45,410 | 9,267 | 54,678 |
| Mundi | 6,59,640 | 32,322 | 6,596 | 38,919 |
| Dholera | 6,11,080 | 29,943 | 6,111 | 36,054 |
| Gorasu | 5,30,140 | 25,977 | 5,301 | 31,278 |
| Bhimtalav | 4,97,770 | 24,391 | 4,978 | 29,368 |
| Sandhida | 4,89,680 | 23,994 | 4,897 | 28,891 |
| Cher | 4,57,300 | 22,408 | 4,573 | 26,981 |
| Zankhi | 4,24,930 | 20,822 | 4,249 | 25,071 |
04What this record does not have
It does not have transacted prices. Gujarat publishes registered sale data one document at a time through Garvi, behind an applicant name, a mobile number, an image challenge and a one time password, and the date filter takes a single date rather than a range. There is no lawful bulk route to what land actually changed hands for, so this site does not pretend to one.
What it does instead is publish the part that is knowable and checkable: the statutory cost of completing the transfer, on the valuation base the department itself uses. Where the government has not published a number, the gap is printed in place of a guess.
What is not public, and why sets out every declared gap across the four datasets behind this site.