The Government of Uttar Pradesh (UP), on August 13, 2026, enacted the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code (Second Amendment) Act, 2026, further amending the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006. The Act is deemed to have come into force retrospectively from April 8, 2026.
The amendment inserts clauses (ddd) and (dddd) in Section 76(1) to confer Bhumidhar rights with non-transferable rights on specified persons in the districts of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Rampur and Bijnor. This includes certain persons displaced during the India-Pakistan Partition who are eligible for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, members of the Scheduled Tribe Community, and persons settled under Colonization Schemes, subject to the prescribed conditions concerning Government agricultural leases, cultivatory possession and land records. For persons covered under clause (dddd), the provision also applies to eligible Partition-displaced persons in cultivatory possession of specified land before October 25, 1980, with non-transferable rights limited to one acre per family.
The amendment further provides that where the landholder’s total landholding exceeds the applicable ceiling under the Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960, rights will accrue only to the extent permissible under the ceiling provisions. It also repeals the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2026 and Third Amendment Ordinance, 2026, while saving actions already taken under those Ordinances.
[U.P. Act No. 20 of 2026]
