City survey utara (सिटी सर्व्हे उतारा) is what most people call the property card — the record of rights for an urban plot in Maharashtra, filed against a CTS number (City Title Survey number, नगर भूमापन क्रमांक). View it free on bhulekh.mahabhumi.gov.in under the मालमत्ता पत्रक option, searching by CTS number or owner name, and download the digitally signed copy for ₹15 from digitalsatbara.mahabhumi.gov.in — the version banks and courts accept. Don’t know your CTS number? The government’s free Find CTS/Survey Number tool converts an old survey number into it. This guide covers the CTS number end to end, both download routes, corrections — and the city survey office directory nobody else publishes.
One document, one office: the city survey utara in brief
Every urban plot brought under city survey (नगर भूमापन) gets a card in the government’s record: who holds the plot, its area in square metres, the ownership history, and every loan, lease or litigation recorded against it. That card is the city survey utara — the portal calls it मालमत्ता पत्रक, banks call it the property card or PR card, older offices say आखीव पत्रिका. The milkat patrika guide untangles all the names and decodes each box on the card, and the property card Maharashtra page has the quick facts.
What matters here: the record lives with the City Survey Office (Nagar Bhumapan Karyalay) for your area, and its key is the CTS number — get those two things right and everything else (downloads, certified copies, corrections) follows. The rural counterpart is the 7/12 utara maintained by the Talathi; a plot has one record or the other, never both. One recent wrinkle: under the central SVAMITVA scheme, property cards are now being issued for rural house plots too — in Pune district the rollout has covered talukas like Daund, Baramati, Haveli and Mulshi — but the urban city-survey card this guide deals with is a separate, decades-old system.
What a CTS number is — and CTS vs survey vs gat number
CTS stands for City Title Survey. The CTS number is the unique identifier a plot receives in the city survey — the number the property card, the mutation register and the city survey map all hang off. You will be asked for it when registering a sale deed, calculating stamp duty, applying for building or repair permission, taking a water or electricity connection in some corporations, and any time you pull the record online. For a buyer it is the fraud check: feed the seller’s CTS number into the government portal and compare what the record says with what the brochure claims.
The three land keys in Maharashtra, side by side:
| Number | Land it identifies | Record it appears on |
|---|---|---|
| Survey number | Rural/agricultural land, original survey | 7/12 utara |
| Gat number | Rural land after consolidation (एकत्रीकरण) | 7/12 utara |
| CTS number | Urban plot under city survey | Property card |
Region matters. In Mumbai’s island city, the survey register uses Cadastral Survey (CS) numbers — the same idea under an older name; the suburbs use CTS numbers administered across the Andheri, Borivali and Kurla talukas (86 villages between them). Pune, Nagpur, Thane, Nashik and other surveyed cities use city survey numbers on the same pattern. Outside Maharashtra the identifier changes entirely — khasra numbers, property IDs — so the CTS system is a Maharashtra habit, strongest in Mumbai. And when an area urbanises and is brought under city survey, its survey/gat records close and a CTS number takes over — which is why a locality can vanish from the 7/12 dropdowns overnight.
Find your CTS number when no paper shows it
Check the obvious places first: an old property card, your sale deed or its Index 2, society records for a flat. One trap — the milkat number on a property-tax bill is not the CTS number; it is the corporation’s internal tax-assessment ID, a mix-up the milkat patrika guide covers in detail.
If the papers only show an old survey number, use the government’s converter — the long-tail tool most guides never mention:
- Open mahabhumi.gov.in/mahabhumilink and click Find CTS/Survey Number under free services (it opens digitalsatbara.mahabhumi.gov.in/section122)
- The page — “Know Your CTS Number from Survey Number / Survey Number from CTS Number” — has two panels; use the first to go survey → CTS, the second for the reverse
- Select your जिल्हा (district), तालुका (taluka) and गाव (village)
- Type the survey number in the search box, pick the exact entry from the dropdown the portal offers, solve the captcha, and the matching CTS number appears
The mapping behind this tool is still being built out under Section 122 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code — the page itself says so — so a missing entry is not proof your plot has no CTS number; it means that village’s mapping isn’t loaded yet, and the taluka office or City Survey Office can look it up manually. If you have neither number, search the property card by owner name (next section) or visit the City Survey Office for your area with the plot’s description — the directory below tells you which office that is.
Free city survey utara online — by CTS number or owner name
The free view on Mahabhulekh needs no login and no CTS number if you know the holder’s name:
- Open bhulekh.mahabhumi.gov.in and pick your division
- Tick मालमत्ता पत्रक (Malmatta Patrak) — not the 7/12 option
- Select the district, the taluka and sheet number, then the village or peth
- Search by CTS number, or switch to नाव (name) and enter the first name, middle name or surname — the portal matches Marathi script, so spelling matters
- Pick the right entry from the results, choose the language, enter your mobile number, click मालमत्ता पत्रक पहा (view) and solve the captcha on the new tab
The card that opens is the विना स्वाक्षरीत (unsigned) copy — free, watermarked, information only. Use it to note the CTS number, check the holder rows and spot any encumbrance; no bank or registrar will accept it. Why the record matters before any transaction — and what each entry protects you from — is the subject of our property card benefits guide.
Signed copy fees: ₹15 online, certified copy at the office
For a copy that carries legal weight, you have two routes and two prices:
| Copy | Where | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Digitally signed PDF | digitalsatbara.mahabhumi.gov.in | ₹15 per document |
| Certified paper copy | City Survey Office (नगर भूमापन कार्यालय) | Office copying charges |
The digitally signed property card is the practical choice: register once on digitalsatbara.mahabhumi.gov.in, recharge the wallet, select the district, city survey office and CTS number, and download the PDF — ₹15, valid for banks, courts and registration without any officer’s ink signature. The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the digitally signed 7/12, 8A, ferfar and property card guide.
For a certified paper copy, apply at the City Survey Office holding your record. Offices typically ask for the CTS number, the plot number and description, the ward number, and — for older matters — extracts like the enquiry register or vahiwat records; copying charges apply. In Mumbai City district the application goes in at the SETU counter of the Collector Office (Old Custom House, Fort); third-party guides have quoted around ₹50 per survey number with a 15-day service limit, but confirm the current figure at the counter. The city survey map — the CTS sheet showing your plot’s boundaries — can be viewed online through the state’s Mahabhunakasha service (mahabhunakasha.mahabhumi.gov.in), and certified map copies come from the same City Survey Office.
City survey office directory (Nagar Bhumapan Karyalay)
Which office holds your record depends on your village/peth, not your postal address. Here is the directory as published on official district websites (checked August 2026) — the detail the big property portals skip:
Mumbai City (island city): Superintendent of City Survey & Land Records, 1st floor, Collector Office, Old Custom House, Fort, Mumbai 400001. Certified copies of the property record card and city survey maps are issued here on application; mutations run fully online on epsitmumc.mahabhumi.gov.in. City-specific routes are in the Mumbai property card guide.
Mumbai Suburban: ten city survey offices under the District Superintendent of Land Records (Administrative Building, Government Colony, Bandra East, Mumbai 400051). Per mumbaisuburban.gov.in:
| CTS Office | Where it sits | Phone | Key areas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andheri | SVP Nagar, Swami Samarth Nagar Road, Vesave, Andheri (W) 400053 | 022-26362674 | Andheri, Versova, Oshiwara, Madh |
| Bandra | Revenue Building, beside Bandra station, Bandra (W) 400050 | 022-26128110 | Bandra, Kole-Kalyan |
| Vile Parle | Municipal Motor Garage compound, Milan Subway, Santacruz (W) 400054 | 022-26183202 | Vile Parle, Juhu, Sahar, Marol, Chakala |
| Borivali | Administrative Building, Natakwala Lane, S.V. Road, Borivali (W) 400092 | 022-28075045 | Borivali, Kandivali, Dahisar, Gorai |
| Goregaon | BEST Adhikari Colony, Dadasaheb Rupavate Road, Goregaon (W) 400104 | 022-26773435 | Malavani, Marve, Aksa, Poisar |
| Malad | Administrative Building (5th floor), Natakwala Lane, Borivali (W) 400092 | 022-28636397 | Malad, Aarey, Dindoshi, Kurar |
| Mulund | Topiwala College building, Sarojini Naidu Road, Mulund (W) 400080 | 022-25619878 | Mulund, Bhandup, Powai, Kanjur |
| Kurla | Topiwala College building, Sarojini Naidu Road, Mulund (W) 400080 | 022-25695771 | Kurla, Mohili, Saki |
| Ghatkopar | Tehsildar Kurla office premises, Sarojini Naidu Road, Mulund (W) 400080 | 022-25642228 | Ghatkopar, Vikhroli, Chandivali |
| Chembur | Topiwala College premises, Sarojini Naidu Road, Mulund (W) 400080 | 022-25619876 | Chembur, Mankhurd, Mahul, Anik |
(Yes — several eastern-suburb offices currently sit in the same Mulund building; that is how the district lists them.)
Pune: the Superintendent of Land Records sits at Government Bungalow No. 1, Samata Nagar, Airport Road, Badami Chowk, near Ishanya Mall, Yerawada, Pune 411006 (020-26684658, per pune.gov.in). Pune’s plots are split across zone-wise city survey offices — public directories list offices in areas like Shukrawar Peth and Pimpri — so carry your CTS number and the Yerawada office will point you to the right one. Online routes are in the Pune property card guide.
Thane: the district publishes no separate CTS-office directory online; the entry point is the Revenue Branch, Collector Office, Thane 400601 (022-25344711, per the district website), and the Mahabhumi portal for everything downloadable.
Nagpur: the District Superintendent of Land Records (nagpur.gov.in) routes all digital services — property card view, signed copies, mutation status — through the state portals, and public directories place the city survey office in the Administrative Building No. 1, Civil Lines, Nagpur 440001. Inside municipal limits Nagpur plots have no 7/12 — the property card is the record, and Nagpur district ran one of the first pilots (Kamptee) when city survey records went online in 2021.
Corrections and mutation on the property card
Registering a sale deed does not update the card. The registration office records the transaction; the City Survey Office records the holder — and it only acts when a mutation is filed. After a purchase, inheritance, gift or court order, apply to the City Survey Office holding your record with the registered deed (or heirship proof); the office notices interested parties, then records the change on the card. Statewide, the EPSIT online PR-card mutation application is available through the Mahabhumi services hub, and in Mumbai City district all 45 mutation types have run fully online since 18 March 2026 — the milkat patrika guide covers that launch in detail.
For a clerical error — a misspelled holder name, a wrong area figure — file a correction application (सुधारणा अर्ज, sudharana arj) with the documents proving the correct entry. An area mismatch between the card and your deed usually means a measurement dispute: ask for a government survey through the e-Mojni measurement service and apply for correction with the measurement result. In every case, pull a fresh copy of the card afterwards and verify the entry actually changed — an approved application is not the same as an updated record.
A CTS number is easy to find once; what is hard is noticing when the record behind it changes. BhuMe fetches your city survey utara — by CTS number or just the owner’s name — delivers it on WhatsApp with the Marathi entries handled, and then monitors the plot, so a new mutation, encumbrance or notice on the property card reaches your phone before it becomes a problem.