Bhubaneswar, Dec. 19 -- In a significant administrative reform aimed at reducing prolonged litigation over land records, the Odisha Revenue Department has empowered tehsildars to approve mutation of land based on old registered sale deeds.

The department, on Thursday, issued a detailed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in line with the Odisha Survey and Settlement (Amendment) Rules, 2025, enabling landowners to correct records without approaching revisional Courts or the Board of Revenue.

Under the revised framework, owners of settled land can now apply for correction and mutation of land records on the basis of their old registered sale deeds directly at the tehsil level.

Earlier, such matters required litigants to move revisional Co...