Free Tamil Nadu lookup
Find your Sub-Registrar Office (SRO) by village or street name (சார்பதிவாளர் அலுவலகம் தேடல்)
The Sub-Registrar Office Finder turns a village or street name into the Tamil Nadu registration office that covers it, with its registration district, address and phone, so you know where a deed was registered before you order an encumbrance certificate.
Find the office
Use cases
- Find which office registers land in your village
- Check the registration district before ordering an encumbrance certificate
- Get a Sub-Registrar Office address and phone number
- Look up the office for a street in a town
- Tell two same-named villages apart by their office
Overview
What is a Sub-Registrar Office?
A Sub-Registrar Office, usually shortened to SRO, is the office where sale deeds and other property documents are registered. Tamil Nadu has 595 of them across 11 registration zones and 56 registration districts, and each one covers a defined list of registration villages. Read more about the sub-registrar office and the encumbrance certificate.
Results are drawn from the TNREGINET jurisdiction list, the Know Your Jurisdiction office contact list and the guideline-value street register, published by the Inspector General of Registration, Government of Tamil Nadu, under the Registration Act, 1908.
The office a result names is where an encumbrance certificate is searched for that land. If you know the district but not the village, start from the district and taluk pages.
Result guide
What can a search return?
- Offices found
- Check the registration district against your deed before you continue. A village name can repeat across Tamil Nadu.
- One name, two offices
- A village name can fall under more than one office. Every match is listed, and the registration district is what tells them apart.
- Matched by a street name
- Your search matched a street inside a registration village rather than the village name itself. Streets are known for part of the state.
- No office match
- Nothing matched this spelling. Try the village name instead of the street, a shorter name, or another spelling.
- The lookup didn't complete
- Your search is kept. The office source didn't answer this time; that is a source outage, not a missing office.
Reading a result
What does the result mean?
Each row names one office, its registration district and its zone, with the address, phone and email the department publishes. Where the department lists none, that line is left out rather than shown empty.
A village name can repeat across Tamil Nadu and can fall under more than one office. Every match is listed and none is chosen for you, because a search filed at the wrong office is rejected.
Every answer names the registers it came from and when each was last refreshed, so a search that finds nothing tells you where it looked rather than reporting that the land is clear.
Continuing from a row carries that office, and the village where there is one, into the encumbrance certificate search.
What this lookup cannot establish
A jurisdiction match names the office that covers a place today. It does not prove where a particular deed was registered, that any deed exists, or that a property is free of encumbrances. Jurisdictions change; confirm with the office before you register.
Questions
Before you search.
What people ask before looking up an office: how the match works, why one name can return two offices, and what the result does and does not prove.
How do I find which Sub-Registrar Office covers my village?
Type the village name into the field above. The finder matches it against the TNREGINET jurisdiction list and shows every office whose jurisdiction includes a village of that name, with the registration district that tells them apart.
Why does one village name show two different offices?
Village names repeat across Tamil Nadu, and a single name can also sit under more than one office. The finder shows every match rather than choosing for you, because sending you to the wrong office means a rejected application. Compare the registration district against your deed.
Can I search by street name instead of a village?
Yes, for the towns the guideline-value street register covers. A street match is labelled as one and names the registration village it sits in. Streets are known for only part of the state, so a street that returns nothing is not evidence that no office covers it — search the village instead.
Is this the same as TNREGINET Know Your Jurisdiction?
It reads the same government source and answers the same question, with the office address, phone and email on the result and a link that carries the office into an encumbrance certificate search. View Patta is not a government entity and is not affiliated with any government agency.
What do I do once I know the office?
An encumbrance certificate is searched at the office that covers the property, so the result links straight into that search with the office and village already filled in. Registering a document still happens at the office itself.
Is my search stored?
No. What you type is not saved, is not added to the page URL, and is not sent to analytics. The lookup reads our own copy of the government lists and makes no call to the registration portal.
The one thing that leaves your browser is the map of the office you choose: it is drawn by Google from that office’s published coordinates. Nothing you typed is sent with it.