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After eight years, large scale rationalization, discrepancies removed in both urban-rural areas

Chhattisgarh News: The Government of Chhattisgarh has implemented the new guideline rates for the year 2025-26 in the entire state with the aim of reflecting the actual market value of immovable properties and removing the disparities that have been persisting for years in the guideline rates. These rates, approved by the Central Evaluation Board, Raipur under the “Chhattisgarh Guideline Rates Determination Rules, 2000”, have become effective from November 20, 2025. This amendment has been made at the statewide level for the first time after the year 2018-19. There was no increase in the guideline rates in the state for the last eight years, which had led to a huge gap between the actual market price and the guideline price. To improve this situation, new rates have been set in the entire state through scientific rationalization. Many complexities have been simplified keeping in mind the changes in the geographical location of the districts, urban structure, rural settlements, road connectivity and economic activities.

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Earlier, in various urban bodies of the state, 10 to 12 types of ‘Kandikas’ were applicable in a single ward, due to which people had to face a lot of difficulties in getting their property assessed. Many paragraphs did not actually exist. The new guideline rates have implemented a simple and transparent structure by removing unnecessary clauses and covering areas of similar nature. With this, valuation of properties in the same area, same road or same route will now be done with uniformity. An important example of this rationalization is visible in district Kondagaon, where huge improvements have been made in both urban and rural areas. In 22 wards of Kondagaon Municipality, only 30 wards have been reduced from the earlier 145 wards. Similarly, in Nagar Panchayat Farsgaon, 49 paragraphs have been reduced to 15 and in Nagar Panchayat Keshkal, 45 paragraphs have been reduced to 15 paragraphs. This will give property owners a clear understanding of the actual market value.

In many districts of the state, there were huge discrepancies in the rates of wards or villages situated on either side of the national highways. For example, in Kondagaon the previous rates in the wards adjacent to National Highway-30 were quite different from each other. The rate of NH-30 section of ward number 22 was Rs 10,850 per square meter, while in ward number 4 of the same route it was Rs 10,000. In ward numbers 1 and 2 located opposite each other, this rate was fixed at Rs 7,800 and Rs 8,700 respectively. In the new guideline, it has been proposed to make all these equal and it will be Rs 12,000 per square metre. Similarly, in Keshkal, the rates of the wards adjacent to NH-30 have also been adjusted and a uniform Rs 9,500 per square meter has been proposed. There has been a huge improvement in the rates in rural areas of the state also. Despite thousands of villages having the same type of land or being situated on the same road, there was wide disparity in the rates. In many villages, rates were extremely low, up to Rs 59,000 per hectare, resulting in farmers neither getting fair compensation nor market value in land sales. The rates in villages like Permapal, Hangwa, Totar, Amgaon, Adnar, Chema, Chhoteousari, Chhotecoder, Timenar, Ehra and Gadantarai have been adjusted as per the nearby developed villages.

Similarly, in other districts of the state, Durg, Raigarh, Surguja, Korba, Dhamtari, Bilaspur, Kabirdham, Kanker and Bastar, comprehensive reforms have been made in the rates after assessing the actual condition of roads, markets, settlements and development. The rates have been revised by evaluating the villages and hamlets situated on both sides of the National Highway, State Highway and major district roads on a uniform standard. In the new guideline rates, the square meter rate for rural areas has been abolished. Now all types of residential and agricultural land will be assessed at a uniform hectare rate. With this, the disparity in the market price of small pieces of land and agricultural land will end and farmers will get fair price and compensation for their land. In the last eight years, there has been rapid development in cities and villages across the state. Roads, connectivity, commercial complexes, residential expansion and industrial activities have increased rapidly. All these variables have been incorporated scientifically in the new guideline rates, so that the gap between the market price and the guideline price gets eliminated and property based transactions in the state become more transparent and streamlined.

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The new state level guideline rates will provide proper valuation to land owners, farmers, investors and common citizens. Also, this step is being considered an important decision of the state government in the direction of increasing revenue, rural-urban development and increasing stability and confidence in the real estate sector. In village Masora (seller – Manuram Chakradhari resident – Girola, buyer – Shanti Devi Kushwaha resident – Kondagaon) area 0.032 hectare residential land, if calculated as per square meter rate of the previous guide line, the market price would have been Rs 1,17,000/- with a total stamp and registration fee of Rs 12,402/- whereas the market price as per the new guide line hectare rate would have been Stamp and registration fee of Rs. 5,777/- was paid on Rs. 54,500/- resulting in a profit of Rs. 6,625/- to the party.
In village Keravahi (seller – Jagari resident – Keravahi, buyer – Manoj Manikpuri resident – Keravahi) area of 0.024 hectare residential land, if calculated as per square meter rate of the previous guide line, the market price would have been Rs 39,000/- with total stamp and registration fee at Rs 4,134/- whereas as per the new guide line hectare rate, the market price would have been Rs 23,000 / – stamp. And registration fee of Rs 2,438/- was paid due to which the party got a profit of Rs 1696/-.