The words on the page, and what they say
The Gujarati words on a jantri page, translated
A page of the Gujarat rate book is almost entirely in Gujarati, and the handful of terms on it decide which rate applies to your land. Whether a line says irrigated or unirrigated, whether it is ordinary land or highway land, is written in words most buyers never see translated. This page sets out every term that appears on the Dholera pages, what it means, and how we read it.
The question this page answersWhat do the Gujarati words and columns on a Gujarat jantri page mean?
Six columns carry the rate. The first is the survey number. The next four are the land classes: unirrigated, irrigated, non-cultivable waste and mineral bearing. The sixth has no printed heading at all and carries the road class. On the Dholera pages the waste and mineral columns are blank on every line, and the irrigated column is blank everywhere except Mundi.
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.
Every Gujarati term on a rate page, with what it means
Read left to right: the document, the meaning, and the mess a machine sees.
| # | What the page says, in Gujarati | What it means | How it comes out of the PDFbefore transcription |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | સર્વે નંબર | Survey number | |
| 2 | ખેતી જમીન | Agricultural land | |
| 3 | બિનપિયત | Non-irrigated | |
| 4 | પિયત | Irrigated | |
| 5 | બિનખેડાણપાત્ર ખરાબા | Non-cultivable waste | |
| 6 | ખનિજ તત્વોવાળી | Mineral-bearing | |
| 7 | બિનપિયત | Non-irrigated (Bin-Piyat) agricultural land | lAGl%FIT |
| 8 | પિયત | Irrigated (Piyat) agricultural land | l%FIT |
| 9 | જીલ્લા મુખ્ય/અન્ય જીલ્લા માર્ગ ઉપર | On District Main / Other District Road | HL<,F D]bIq VgI HL<,F DFU" p%FZ |
| 10 | સામાન્ય | General | ;FDFgI |
| 11 | રાષ્ટ્રીય/રાજ્ય ધોરીમાર્ગ ઉપર | On National / State Highway | ZFQ8LIqZFHI nMZLDFU" p%FZ |
Source Annual Statement of Rates, edition ASR 2011 Final, 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 positionally from the rate book AHMEDABAD-AGRI.pdf, 1,431 pages; the ASR page number is printed on every row.
Status OFFICIAL. Last verified: 2026-08-04.
- The Gujarati in this PDF is set in a legacy font that predates Unicode, so copying text out of it produces the nonsense in the third column. Every Gujarati string here was read by rendering the page as an image at five to seven times size and transcribing what is on it.
- The English is a translation, not something the document says. Only two English phrases are printed in the book itself: Rs.per acre and (Rs. per Sq.Mts).
- The sixth column, which carries the road class, has no printed heading anywhere in the book. The name we give it is ours and is labelled as ours.
Why this had to be transcribed by eye
The file does not contain the words you see on the page. This is a common problem with Indian government PDFs of that era.
The rate book was typeset in a Gujarati font that predates Unicode. The characters stored in the file are not the characters shown on the page: the software drew Gujarati glyphs using Latin character codes. Copy a line out and you get the string in the third column of the table above, which decodes to nothing in any language.
That leaves two options. Guess at a character mapping, or render each page as a picture at high magnification and read the glyphs. We did the second. Every Gujarati string on this site was transcribed that way, and the raw unreadable extraction is kept alongside it in the published data so anybody can check our reading against the original.
The figures themselves were never affected. Rates, village names and page numbers are in Latin script and Arabic numerals throughout the book, and they extract cleanly. The data page carries both the transcription and the raw string for every line.