The old village core, and why it is priced separately

Gamtal rates: what land inside the village itself is worth

Gamtal is the built up core of a village, the part where the houses and shops already stand, as opposed to the farm land around it. Gujarat prices it under a separate heading in a separate rate book, and the figures are several times the farm land rate for the same village. If somebody offers you a plot in the village rather than in the fields, this is the number that governs it.

The question this page answersWhat is the gamtal rate for a Dholera village and how is it different from farm land?

Across the Dholera villages the gamtal rate runs from INR 120 to INR 350 per square metre for a home and INR 200 to INR 520 for a shop. The middle farm land rate in the same region is INR 113 per square metre, so village core land is worth roughly two to three times the fields around it in this book. Twenty one of the 22 villages carry a gamtal rate; Sodhi has no page in the book at all.

Before you use any figure here

Every rate here comes from one rate book, headed ASR - 2011 Final, which has been in force since 18 April 2011. These are 2011 figures. A revision was proposed later and then held back after objections, and we hold no government document for it, so we print no figure for it. Check the rate in force today with the Gujarat Revenue Department before you sign anything, and never read a 2011 figure as a 2026 market price.

The village core rate, village by village

Twenty one villages carry one. Sodhi does not.

ASR/2011/NA/GAMTALIN FORCE 18 APR 2011NOTIFIED

What the book charges for land inside the old settled core of each village, for a home and for a shop, set beside the middle farm land rate for the same village. The core is worth several times the fields around it in every case.
#	Village	Homes in the village coreINR per sq m	Shops in the village coreINR per sq m	Farm land in the same villageINR per sq m	ASR page
1	Ambli	170	220	69^†	230
2	Bavaliyari	160	210	37^†	235
3	Bhadiyad	270	520	113^†	236
4	Bhangadh	160	200	45^†	238
5	Bhimtalav	150	300	123^†	239
6	Cher	150	200	131^†	242
7	Dholera	350	450	161^†	247
8	Gogla	180	225	79^†	256
9	Gorasu	190	235	121^†	257
10	Hebatpur	345	405	no data	7
11	Kadipur	200	250	217^†	262
12	Khun	120	240	69^†	269
13	Mahadevpura	150	270	42^†	272
14	Mingalpur	160	280	74^†	273
15	Mundi	150	200	173^†	276
16	Otariya	210	260	40^†	279
17	Panchi	170	210	83^†	281
18	Rahatalav	180	225	48^†	290
19	Sandhida	180	240	108^†	296
20	Sangasar	170	225	no data	22
21	Zankhi	200	260	102^†	305
	21 villages with a gamtal rate	120 to 350	200 to 520	113

Source Annual Statement of Rates, edition ASR 2011 Final, non-agricultural land, Ahmedabad district. Issued by the Superintendent of Stamps, Gandhinagar, Gujarat State. In force under the Revenue Department resolution dated 18 April 2011. Read from the rate book AHMEDABAD-NA.pdf, 782 pages, one village to a page; the page number is printed on every row.

Status OFFICIAL. Last verified: 2026-08-04.

Gamtal rates are printed for the whole village core rather than for a list of survey numbers, which is why no survey numbers appear against them.
The farm land column is the median of the agricultural lines for the same village and is † ours. It comes from the agricultural rate book, a separate volume, and is shown only for scale.
Sodhi has no page in either rate book, so it has no gamtal rate here and nothing is substituted for it.
This is the minimum value stamp duty is charged on. It is a tax floor set by the state, not the price a plot changes hands at, and not a valuation of anybody's land.

What gamtal is, in plain words

A gamtal rate covers the settlement, not the fields, and never both.

Every revenue village in Gujarat has a gamtal, the piece of land the settlement itself stands on. It has been built on for generations, it is not farm land, and it does not need to be converted before somebody builds there. That is why the rate book gives it its own line and its own, higher, figure.

Two things follow, and both matter to a buyer. A gamtal rate does not apply to the fields outside the village core, however close they are, so quoting a gamtal figure for farm land inflates it several times over. And a gamtal rate is not the rate for land that has been converted out of farming somewhere else in the village: that is a different class again, priced higher still on the non-farm page.

The book prints one gamtal rate per village for homes and one for shops. There are no survey numbers on those lines because the rate covers the core as a whole.