The Government of Uttar Pradesh, on May 23, 2026, promulgated the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 2026, to amend the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006. The Ordinance has been given retrospective effect from April 8, 2026, and introduces additional categories of persons eligible to acquire Bhumidhar with non-transferable rights under Section 76 of the Code.
The Ordinance inserts clauses (ddd) and (dddd) in Section 76(1) to confer Bhumidhar with non-transferable rights upon persons rehabilitated in the districts of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Rampur, and Bijnor who were displaced during the India–Pakistan partition and are eligible for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, persons belonging to the Scheduled Tribe community, and persons settled under the Upaniveshan Yojana/Colonization Scheme, provided they were agricultural lessees under the Government Grants Act, 1895 and are in cultivatory possession of eligible land. The Ordinance also extends such rights to eligible persons displaced during partition who, before October 25, 1980, were in cultivatory possession of Gram Sabha land vested under Section 59, State Government-granted land, or other eligible State Government land in the specified districts, subject to a maximum holding of one acre per family in such cases.
The Ordinance further provides that where the land held by an eligible person, together with any other land owned in Uttar Pradesh, exceeds the ceiling limit prescribed under the Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960, Bhumidhar rights shall accrue only up to the applicable ceiling area, with demarcation to be carried out in the prescribed manner. The Ordinance also repeals the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2026, while saving actions taken under the repealed Ordinance as if they had been taken under the present Ordinance.
[U.P. Ordinance No. 13 of 2026]
