Mutation in Chhattisgarh: updating the B-1 after a transfer

Two acts sit either side of a Chhattisgarh sale. Registration, at the sub-registrar, executes the deed and records that a transaction took place. Mutation comes afterwards, a separate step in which the revenue side takes that transaction onto the record and enters the buyer on the B-1, so the Bhumiswami, the area and the revenue read to the new holder. Register a deed and skip mutation, and the government still treats the seller as the Bhumiswami.

As a citizen service the flow is orderly. The buyer applies at the Tehsil, or online through CG Bhuiyan, with the deed and identity; the Patwari examines the case on the ground, notice runs so objections can surface, and the Tehsildar passes an order updating the B-1. The portal lets an applicant follow whether a case is pending, objected or disposed, sparing the repeated visits the paper process once demanded.

What is particular to Chhattisgarh is the lag between registers. Mutation updates the B-1, but the P-II Khasra and the Girdawari can carry the old picture for a while, so a freshly mutated B-1 may sit over a Girdawari that still shows the seller cultivating. A buyer should confirm not just that the B-1 was updated but that the three registers reconcile, since a persistent gap between ownership and possession is exactly what later disputes are built on.

The route is orderly; the safeguard is confirming the registers reconcile once the B-1 is updated.

At the Tehsil, or online

After the order

Mutation moves the ownership register; the plot and possession registers can trail it.

Four failures leave a Chhattisgarh mutation incomplete.

In a single-register state, a completed mutation is the end of the story. In Chhattisgarh it is half of one, because mutation moves the B-1 while the P-II Khasra and the Girdawari can lag, and a buyer who reads only the fresh B-1 can miss that the possession entry still names the seller. The gap is not always sinister, registers catch up at different speeds, but a gap that persists is exactly the ground a later claimant stands on. So treat mutation as the update of one register and the trigger to check the other two. Confirm the deed is registered, lodge and follow the mutation, and once the B-1 names you, read the P-II and Girdawari to see that they reconcile. Where they do, the record is genuinely in your name across the stack; where they do not, the Patwari and Tehsil are the place to close the gap before it becomes someone else's argument.