783 villages and 48 town wards, 34 Sub-Registrar Offices, and 2 statutory checks that apply here and almost nowhere else in Tamil Nadu.
The checks
The Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve occupies the district’s Western Ghats flank as part of the Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve. Land under a section 4 notification cannot be granted a patta while it stands.
SIPCOT holds an industrial growth centre and SEZ at Gangaikondan; allotted land carries its own conditions.
Every parcel is read against all 30 sources regardless; these are the ones this district triggers by where it is.
The offices
Which office holds your parcel decides which register your deed sits in, and how far back that register goes. Ordered by the number of villages each one serves.
Wards: T. S. Ward 10 · T. S. Ward 11 · T. S. Ward 5 · T. S. Ward 6 · T. S. Ward 7 · T. S. Ward 8 · T. S. Ward 9 · T.S.Ward 3
Wards: T. S. Ward 6 (Part) · T. S. Ward I
Wards: Town Suruvey Ward 4 · Town Survey Ward 1 · Town Survey Ward 10 · Town Survey Ward 11 · Town Survey Ward 12 · Town Survey Ward 13 · Town Survey Ward 14 · Town Survey Ward 15 · Town Survey Ward 2 · Town Survey Ward 3 · Town Survey Ward 5 · Town Survey Ward 6 · Town Survey Ward 7 · Town Survey Ward 8 · Town Survey Ward 9
Wards: M. Ward 19 (Old Ward 29,31,32) · M. Ward 20 (Old Ward 27,28,30,32) · M. Ward 25 (Old Ward 14,26,27,28) · M. Ward 26 (Old Ward 25,29,32) · M. Ward 27 (Old Ward 20,25,29,32) · M. Ward 29 (Old Ward 2,18,19,24,25,26) · M. Ward 30 (Old Ward 2,3,4,5,15,19) · M. Ward 31(Old Ward 1,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,15,16) · M. Ward 32 (Old Ward 11,12,13,16,17,18) · M. Ward 33 (2,4,14,16,17,18,19,20,23,24,26) · M. Ward 34 (Old Ward 18,19,20,21,25,26,27,28) · M. Ward 35 (Old Ward 15,17,18,19,22,23,24,25) · M. Ward 36 (Old Ward 7,8,9,10,11,14,15,21) · M. Ward 37 (Old Ward 2,5,6,7,8,9,10,11) · M. Ward 38 (Old Ward 8,9,11,12,13) · M. Ward 8 (Old Ward 1,2,4,5) · M. Ward28(kulavanikarpuram,old Ward 1,2,3,4)
Wards: T. S. Ward (11) · T. S. Ward-i · T. S. Ward(10) · T.S.Ward (1) · T.S.Ward(2) · T.S.Ward(3)
Office and village mapping from TNREGINET, Tamil Nadu Registration Department, retrieved March 2026. Offices open and close; where a third party directory disagrees with the department, the department is the record.
Tirunelveli sits in the Thirunelveli registration zone, which also covers Kanyakumari, Tenkasi and Thoothukudi. A zone is supervised by one Deputy Inspector General of Registration, so practice and record-keeping tend to be consistent across it.
TNREGINET returns encumbrance data from the point each office was digitised. Everything before that exists as bound volumes at the office itself, indexed by hand. A title chain that stops at the digitisation year is the visible half of one. More on what the records do not show.
Stamp duty and the registration fee come to 11 per cent of value, charged on whichever is higher, your price or the guideline value. Registering the sale deed also does not transfer the patta, which is a separate application at the Taluk office. What buying land in Tamil Nadu costs, in full.
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