Step 15 of 35 · stage 3, non-agricultural permission
Non-agricultural permission
Converts agricultural land to a non-agricultural use (residential, commercial, industrial, educational, charitable). Without it no building plan can be approved: the empowered officer may not grant construction approval without NA permission.
- Official wording
- Obtain Non-Agricultural (NA) permission under section 65 of the Land Revenue Code
- Where you go
- The Collector and iORA
- Online or in person
- Online application via iORA; the 2008 resolution prescribes a paper application in three...
- What it costs
- A Rs. 3-00 court fee stamp is prescribed on the application form itself.
- How long
- STATUTORY: section 65 requires the Collector to inform the applicant of his decision...
- Record id
- GJ-NA-01, step 15 of 35
Where you go, and how
Empowered officer by area: (A) Collector - Mahanagar Palika, Urban Area Development Authority, Notified Area and Cantonment Area, and 'A' and 'B' category Nagarpalikas; (B) Territory Officer - 'C' and 'D' category Nagarpalikas; (C) Taluka Panchayat - up to 2 acres in villages with population under 5,000 per the last census; (D) District Panchayat - all other rural areas. Applied online through iORA.
Mode: Online application via iORA; the 2008 resolution prescribes a paper application in three copies to the empowered officer
This office handles 5 of the 35 steps in the register. What else it does, and what it charges.
What to have with you
The source names 8 things the office asks for. Take them all in one go and the visit is usually one visit.
- Certified copy of the entry by which the applicant obtained ownership rights, including all mutation entries and the village form copy
- Latest copy of Village Form 7/12
- Copy of Village Form 8-A (khata number)
- Where the land is premium land: copy of the Collector's order and the receipt of premium paid for conversion of new tenure to old tenure
- Copy of the challan of fees paid for measurement of the land to be made non-agricultural
- Supporting evidence for mortgages if deducted (certificate of the lending institution or bank)
- 'F' form for allotment of area under the T.P. scheme
- Zone certificate issued by the Chief Executive Officer of the Urban Development Authority
Quoted from the prerequisite list in the register. Where the source names a detail rather than a document, such as a survey number, it is listed as the source words it.
The form you fill in
Prescribed application at Annexure-2 to Revenue Department Resolution No. NAP/1006/425/K dated 1-7-2008, bearing a Rs. 3-00 court fee stamp, filed in THREE copies. iORA service 6: 'જમીન મહેસૂલ અધિનિયમની કલમ-૬૫ અન્વયે બિનખેતી પરવાનગી મેળવવાની અરજી'. Related: section 65-A change of NA purpose (iORA row 7); section 65-B bona fide industrial purpose (row 8); sections 66 and 67 (rows 9 and 10).
What it costs
Quoted from the government source, in its own words:
A Rs. 3-00 court fee stamp is prescribed on the application form itself. A challan for the LAND MEASUREMENT FEE must be enclosed (amount not specified in the resolution). NA conversion tax / assessment amounts are NOT stated in this resolution.
No part of this figure has been rounded, converted or updated by us. If the department has revised it since 4 August 2026, the correction address is in the footer. Every published fee in the register sits on one page.
How long it takes
Quoted from the source, in its own words:
STATUTORY: section 65 requires the Collector to inform the applicant of his decision within THREE MONTHS; where he fails to do so the permission applied for shall be DEEMED TO HAVE BEEN GRANTED. That three-month period runs from the date of the acknowledgment if a written acknowledgment is sent within seven days of receipt, otherwise from the date of receipt of the application. ADMINISTRATIVE (2008 resolution, para 6): maximum 30 days for NA permission for residential purpose statewide, and maximum 45 days for other purposes statewide - but the resolution expressly says these two are administrative instructions only and missing them does NOT create a deemed permission. Receipt of the application must be given immediately if handed in person, or within 7 days if received by post. The Collector's office must give its opinion on title, tenure, premium, acquisition, ceiling, pending disputes and government dues within 21 days; if it does not, it is deemed not to require opining. A District/Taluka Development Officer must verify and forward the case to the Collector's office within 10 days of receipt.
The clock runs against the office, not against you. Three months for the Collector to answer, after which the permission counts as granted. That is our reading of the wording printed above, which is why the wording is printed above.
The nine stated timings in the register are compared on one page.
What to watch out for
The register keeps a note against this step. It is the part most people find out too late, so it is printed in full rather than summarised.
The 2008 resolution replaced the earlier practice of collecting NOCs from twelve departments with a single opinion from the Collector's office. Where a TP scheme has been finalised and final plots notified, the Collector need not seek those opinions and deals only with title, new-tenure/premium recovery and fixing the NA form. Section 65(2) of the Code exempts an occupant in a gram, outside an urban agglomeration and outside a five-kilometre radius of a municipal borough, notified area or industrial estate, from needing permission where he wants to use his holding only for a RESIDENTIAL purpose. Annexure-4 conditions attach to every NA order, including a Civil Aviation NOC where the land is within 20 km of an airport and a 30-metre setback from a railway boundary.
The law behind it
Section 65, Gujarat (Bombay) Land Revenue Code, 1879; Revenue Department Resolution No. NAP/1006/425/K dated 1 July 2008
Where this came from, and what comes next
Citation: Revenue Department GR NAP/1006/425/K dated 1-7-2008, English translation PDF, pages 1-5 (authorities table, application method, timelines) and pages 8-11 (Annexure-2 application form and Annexure-3 checklist); section 65 text from https://revenuedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/downloads/act_BLRC_1879_n.pdf page 47
Government page: https://revenuedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/downloads/gr_01072008_k_eng.pdf
Value date: Resolution dated 1 July 2008; Land Revenue Code text as published by the Revenue Department, retrieved 2026-08-04
Last verified: 4 August 2026
- The step before: 14. Permission when the seller is Scheduled Tribe
- The step after: 16. Drafting the sale deed
- This stage: Permission to stop farming the land
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