7/12 दुरुस्ती (durusti — correction) is how you fix a wrong entry on your satbara: a misspelled name, a wrong father’s name, an area typo, a dead entry that should have been struck. The legal basis is कलम 155 (Kalam 155 / Section 155) of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, which lets revenue officers correct clerical errors — not ownership. Since August 1, 2025, the Land Records Department has stopped taking paper applications: Section 155 corrections are online-only, filed through the e-Hakk system on pdeigr.maharashtra.gov.in with your evidence uploaded as PDFs. The application itself costs nothing beyond nominal stamps, and straightforward corrections resolve in roughly 30–45 days. This guide covers which errors qualify, the exact online steps, documents, and what to do when the office says no.
Which errors qualify — and which route each one takes
The single most common mistake in this process is filing the wrong kind of application. “There’s an error on my 7/12” covers at least four legally different situations, and each has its own remedy:
| What’s wrong on the 7/12 | What it is | Correct route |
|---|---|---|
| Name misspelled, wrong father’s name, initials garbled | Clerical error | Kalam 155 durusti (this guide) |
| Area/assessment figure mistyped during digitisation | Clerical error | Kalam 155 durusti |
| A certified old entry copied wrongly into the new record | Clerical error | Kalam 155 durusti |
| Your name missing after a sale, inheritance, gift, partition | Unrecorded event | New ferfar (mutation) via e-Hakk — not 155 |
| You believe the recorded area on the ground is wrong | Measurement dispute | Mojani (survey) via e-mojani |
| A certified ferfar decided the entry wrongly | Adjudicated entry | Appeal to the Sub-Divisional Officer |
| Someone else’s name appears as owner and they claim title | Title dispute | Civil court — no revenue officer can fix it |
The test worth memorising: a durusti corrects what the record says by mistake; a ferfar records something that happened (a transfer, a death, a loan). If the death of a khatedar is what’s unrecorded, that’s varas nond, a mutation with its own process — heirs’ details, public notice, certification — not a Section 155 application. Filing a durusti for what is really a mutation gets rejected; filing a mutation for a spelling slip wastes months.
What Kalam 155 actually says
Section 155 of the MLRC, 1966 gives the Collector the power to correct — “at any time” — two kinds of errors in the record of rights and connected registers: clerical errors, and errors which the interested parties admit to have been made. There is a built-in safeguard: when a revenue officer notices an error during inspection (rather than the parties admitting it), the interested parties must first be given notice, and any objections must be disposed of through the disputed-entries procedure before the record is touched.
That safeguard exists because the section was widely abused. Investigations reported in March 2026 found ownership transfers disguised as “clerical corrections” — roughly 38,000 suspect Section 155 orders in Pune district alone, an estimated two lakh affected families statewide, over 150 revenue officials under investigation, and a statewide audit of five years of entries ordered, with Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule promising accountability regardless of rank. The practical lesson for a landowner cuts both ways: your genuine spelling fix now travels a stricter, logged, online-only path — and if a Section 155 notice you never asked for shows up against your survey number, object immediately, because “correction” is exactly how names were being swapped.
The online-only rule: no paper applications since August 1
The Land Records Department stopped accepting offline Section 155 applications from August 1, 2025 — corrections must be filed online, a change reported by Pune Pulse and announced by Sarita Narke, In-Charge Additional Director of the Land Records Department, with the state’s in-principle approval. The stated reason is the misuse above: an online trail shows exactly who asked for which correction and whether what was granted matches what was asked — much harder to manipulate than a paper file on a taluka desk.
Two practical consequences. First, a Talathi or Tahsildar office telling you to “just apply online” is not brushing you off — that is now the rule. Second, the walk-in-with-a-form advice filling older guides (and the “satbara durusti form PDF” downloads they link) is obsolete as a filing route; the paper format survives only as a checklist of what the online form will ask you.
Apply online: the e-Hakk durusti step-by-step
The filing channel is the e-Hakk Pranali on the Public Data Entry portal — the same system that handles mutation applications. The flow:
- Open pdeigr.maharashtra.gov.in and register — username, mobile, email, address — then log in
- Select 7/12 mutations and choose the applicant role citizen (नागरिक)
- Click new application and pick your district, taluka and village
- From the application types, choose the 7/12 durusti / correction option
- Identify the khata and survey/gat number, and state the entry as wrongly printed and the entry as it should read
- Upload evidence as PDF — the portal enforces a 300KB-per-file limit, so compress scans before you start (any free PDF compressor works)
- Submit and note the application number — it is your handle for every follow-up
News coverage of the online mandate also points to a “Correction under Section 155” option reached via bhulekh.mahabhumi.gov.in — the Mahabhumi portal links into the same application system, so start from either; the file lands in the same revenue-office queue. (The Aaple Sarkar portal is sometimes named in older guides for revenue services, but it is not the Section 155 filing route.) After submission, the office verifies your evidence against the old records; where the error is contested or officer-noticed, interested parties get notice and an objection window before anything is corrected.
Documents: prove the correct entry, not just the error
A durusti application is an evidence problem. You are asking an officer to overwrite a record, so the officer needs (a) the record as it stands, (b) proof of what it should say, and (c) confidence that no one with an interest objects. Build your uploads around that:
| Document | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Current 7/12 utara | Shows the error as printed — pull a fresh copy |
| Old 7/12 / old revenue records | The strongest proof: the entry before the mistake crept in |
| Old ferfar copies | The certified entry the current record should faithfully reflect |
| Aadhaar card / PAN card | The identity spelling you want the record to match |
| School leaving certificate | Standard supporting proof for name-spelling corrections |
| 8A utara | Confirms the khata the correction applies to |
For a deceased person’s misspelled name, the same logic applies — old records showing the correct spelling carry the application. Where a correction touches an entry shared by a family — a joint khata, an inherited holding — get the written consent of the other holders and legal heirs in first. Section 155 requires objections to be resolved through the disputed-entries procedure, so one unhappy co-holder converts your six-week clerical fix into a months-long dispute file. Consent letters from all heirs, attached up front, close that door.
Fees and timeline
Fees: effectively nil. Offline-era guides quoted ₹0–50 as a nominal court-fee stamp, the online application adds no significant charge, and no dated government notification prescribing a Section 155 fee turned up in our source sweep — treat any agent quoting thousands as a red flag. Your real spend is certified copies of old records and scanning.
Timeline — ७/१२ दुरुस्ती किती दिवसात होते? Unlike a mutation’s statutory 15-day public notice, Section 155 sets no fixed clock — “at any time” cuts both ways. In practice: an admitted, well-evidenced clerical error moves in a few weeks; an officer-noticed or contested one must wait out notice to interested parties and disposal of objections, and correction guides quote a 30-day objection window with roughly 45 days end to end. If your application has sat silent for a month, write to the Tahsildar’s office quoting the application number — the same chase-it-in-writing discipline that works for a stalled ferfar.
Rejected or stuck: the escalation ladder
A refusal is only the start of the process if you handle it correctly:
- Get the written order. A verbal “hoṇār nāhī” is not a decision. The written reasons tell you whether the defect is curable
- Cure and reapply where the problem is evidence — a missing old record, an unclear scan, an unsigned consent. This is almost always faster than appealing
- Recognise a misfiled case. The most common rejection reason is that the “correction” is really a mutation — an unrecorded sale or succession. Refile it as a ferfar
- Appeal up the revenue ladder for a wrong decision: the Tahsildar first, then the Sub-Divisional Officer under the MLRC’s appeal provisions (Section 247), and onward to the Collector
- File an RTI (₹10, to the Public Information Officer at the Tahsildar or Taluka Inspector of Land Records office) when the file has simply stopped moving — a documented query with a 30-day response clock has a way of unsticking files
- Civil court is the only forum if what looked like an error is actually a title dispute — no revenue officer, at any level, can decide ownership
Verify the corrected 7/12 — and watch for corrections you didn’t ask for
A durusti is done when the record shows it, not when the order is passed. Pull a fresh 7/12 utara and check the corrected entry character by character against your Aadhaar — a correction that introduces a new spelling variant is tomorrow’s application. For anything bank- or court-facing, download the digitally signed copy from digitalsatbara.mahabhumi.gov.in (₹15 per signed document) — the free view copy is information-only.
The flip side matters more. The Section 155 fraud pattern worked precisely because owners never looked at their record between transactions — a “correction” would slip through, and the family discovered it years later at a sale or a loan. BhuMe watches your survey number continuously, alerts you on WhatsApp the moment a durusti, ferfar or notice appears against it, and fetches the digitally signed 7/12, 8A and ferfar with the Marathi names handled — so a correction you didn’t file never gets 30 quiet days to become someone else’s entry.