What is e-khata?

Bengaluru's old paper khatas were easy to forge and hard to trace, and the same site sometimes had two khatas in two names. E-khata was the fix. Each property gets an ePID, the owner's identity is verified through Aadhaar eKYC, and the record pulls in the sale deed details, the property tax number, the electricity account and a photo of the property. The Kaveri 2.0 registration system checks for it, so the sub-registrar won't register a sale without it.

Owners download their draft e-khata from the city's e-Aasthi portal, correct any errors, upload the missing documents and then get the final e-khata. For many, the hard part was the upload: old owners without the full chain of deeds, or with a property tax account in a relative's name, found the draft stuck. Properties in other Karnataka towns get e-khata through the municipal e-Aasthi system, and village properties through E-Swathu.

For a buyer, e-khata gives more certainty than the paper khata did. You can confirm the owner on record is the person across the table, verified by Aadhaar, that the site dimensions agree with the deed, and whether the property is in the A or B register. What it doesn't do is replace the legal check. An e-khata carries over whatever the corporation already believed about the property, so errors from the old records can move into the new one.

If a seller says the e-khata is "applied for", treat it as a condition of the deal. Put a clause in the agreement to sell that the balance is payable only after the final e-khata is issued in the seller's name.