NA Conversion in Kerala: The Land-Use Question

Start at the data bank. Each village's register of notified paddy and wetland is the Act's operating document, and a parcel's presence in it changes the question from how to convert into whether conversion is possible at all. Notified wetland is conserved land; the lawful paths off that list are narrow, slow and exceptional, and pricing should assume they stay closed.

Dry land carries its own discipline. Purayidam outside the data bank still needs its recorded use changed through the revenue chain before construction sits lawfully on it, with fees assessed under the rules and the RDO tier deciding. The process has been reworked in recent years, so verify the current filing route and fee basis for your district before money moves on an assumption.

The order ends nothing. Above it sit the local body's building permit and, for anything larger, planning clearances; below it sits the RoR, whose class entry should change to match. A conversion that exists as an order but not as a changed record entry is a job half done.

Class first, route second, order third, record last.

The application path

Where a parcel sits decides what is even possible.

Conversion projects in Kerala derail at four points.

The spread between paddy-priced and buildable-priced land is the largest single number in Kerala plots, and it belongs to whoever verifies the class first.