No Due Certificate for land in West Bengal

What a No Due Certificate actually certifies

A No Due Certificate for land is a departmental certificate stating that no land revenue — Khajna — is outstanding against a particular holding. That is its whole scope. It speaks to the revenue position of the holding as recorded, at the point it is issued.

The distinction that matters is against a payment receipt. A receipt evidences that *one particular payment* was made on *one particular date*. A no-due certificate makes a statement about the *overall position*: nothing is pending. That difference is generally why a certificate is asked for rather than receipts — a stack of receipts still leaves open the question of whether some earlier year was missed.

What it is not — and this matters

People are often handed a no-due certificate believing it settles more than it does. It does not, and treating it as broader proof than it is has real consequences in a transaction.

• It is not proof of ownership or title. It says dues are clear on a holding. It makes no statement about who rightfully owns that holding, or whether anyone else has a claim.
• It is not an RoR or Porcha. The Record of Rights is the record itself — the holding, its plots, its recorded owners and areas. That is a separate request (ROR Request under Service Delivery) and a separate document.
• It is not a mutation. It does not update the record into your name, and obtaining one does not advance a mutation application.
• It is not an encumbrance certificate. Mortgages, charges and registered transactions live with the Registration department, not in a land-revenue no-due certificate.
• It is not permanent. It reflects the position at issue. Revenue continues to accrue afterwards, so a certificate from some time ago is not a statement about today.

When people actually need one

The request almost always comes from a third party rather than from you, which is why so many people meet the term for the first time when they're already mid-process. The common triggers:

• Sale of land. A buyer, or the buyer's lawyer, wants assurance that they aren't inheriting an outstanding revenue liability along with the land.
• A loan against the property. Banks and lenders commonly include it in the documentation set for a land-backed loan.
• Certain departmental or scheme applications, where a clean revenue position is part of what's being checked.
• Your own peace of mind, particularly on inherited or long-neglected land where nobody is sure whether revenue kept being paid.

Where it sits on the portal

No Due Certificate is on Banglarbhumi under Citizen Services → Service Delivery, alongside the other document requests: ROR Request, Plot Info. Request, Plot Map Request, Mouza Map Request and Signed ROR/PI/PLM Copy(s).

That placement tells you two things immediately. First, it requires login — the whole Service Delivery menu does, and until you sign in the portal shows “Please Login and then click Citizen Services”. Second, it is a request rather than a lookup: you are asking the department to produce and issue something, which is why it carries a fee and why it does not appear instantly the way an on-screen search result does.

Banglarbhumi's menus open and its District and Block dropdowns populate while you are signed out, which makes the site feel more open than it is, but asking it for an actual record or case takes you to the sign-in page. So the free-to-run lookups — Know Your Property, RS-LR Plot Information, Mutation Case Status, Mouza Information — are still lookups rather than requests, and you should expect the portal to ask you to sign in for them. The certificate differs in that it is a paid request the department fulfils.

How the request works, end to end

The shape is the same as the portal's other Service Delivery requests. You sign in, identify the holding, pay the fee, and the department issues the certificate against your request — with a status you can track while it's in progress.

You will need to identify the holding precisely: District, Block, Mouza, and the Khatian number the revenue is assessed against. Khajna attaches to a Khatian rather than to an individual plot, so a Dag number by itself will not be enough.

Fee payment goes through the portal's standard path — Fees Payment under Online Application, which routes to eChallan Generation and produces a GRN from the state treasury. Screenshot the GRN and note the request number before you close the tab — the same discipline that saves people on Khajna payments saves them here.

We deliberately don't publish how long issue takes. It isn't a figure we can verify and it plainly varies. If the party who asked for the certificate is working to a deadline, request it early rather than relying on any timeline you read online.

If it won't go through online

The BL&LRO — the Block Land & Land Reforms Office for the block the land falls in — is the offline route, and it is the right route in several situations, not just as a fallback.

Use it if you cannot sign in at all, if the mobile number registered against the record is out of date so OTPs never arrive, or if the holding cannot be found in the portal's records under the details you have. It is also where you go if the underlying problem turns out to be dues you didn't know about: clearing those comes before any certificate can say they're clear.

And if the obstruction is the record itself — the wrong name, the wrong area, an inheritance never recorded, a Khatian that doesn't appear at all — the certificate is not the thing to chase. That is a record-correction matter for the BL&LRO office, and where ownership is contested or money is at stake, for an advocate. We can't advise on either.

One app note, ours, and scoped honestly: Bhumir Tathya is an unofficial Android app we build at Devikon — free, bilingual, covering the portal's record lookups such as Khatian and plot details, and keeping records you've already opened readable offline. It signs in with your own banglarbhumi.gov.in account. A saved copy shows the record as it stood when you viewed it and should be re-checked on the portal before you act on it. It is useful for confirming the Khatian and mouza details you'll type into the request. It cannot issue a No Due Certificate, and no third-party app bypasses the portal's sign-in, its payment gateway, or its fees.