How to get your village map and Khasra sheets in Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh keeps the record in two halves under one name. The B-1 is the record of rights for a holding and the P-II is the register of what was grown on each field. Bhuiyan serves both, and a separate Bhu-Naksha module draws the same Khasra numbers on the village map. People go looking for the map, land on the B-1, and conclude the map is not published. It is, in the other module.

What you are actually asking for

Bhu-Naksha

The cadastral map of a revenue village, showing each Khasra number with its boundaries. Served a sheet at a time, so a holding of several Khasras needs several sheets.

B-1

The record of rights: the holder, the Khasra numbers under the holding, the area of each and the class of land. The half a title question is answered from.

P-II

The Khasra register: what was grown on each field and how it was actually used, season by season. The half a cultivation or crop-loss question is answered from.

Start with the record, so you know what to ask for

Pull the B-1 for the holding first. It gives you the Khasra numbers exactly as the department writes them, and those are what the map request is keyed on. A request with the wrong sub-division comes back with the wrong sheet, and nothing on the sheet will tell you so.

Note the district, tehsil and village as the B-1 spells them, along with the Patwari Halka. Village names repeat across tehsils, and a holding that straddles two Halkas means dealing with two Patwaris.

Getting the map sheets

1. Open the Bhu-Naksha module and select your district, tehsil and village exactly as the B-1 spells them.
2. Select each Khasra number you hold and download or print the sheet it falls on. Where your holding straddles a sheet line, take both sheets.
3. Take the neighbouring sheet where a boundary you care about runs along the edge of yours, because the line you need continues onto it.
4. Check each sheet before you move on: the village name, the sheet identifier, and that your Khasra numbers are legible at the edges.

Before anything else: is this a Scheduled Area?

Large parts of Chhattisgarh, including the Bastar and Surguja divisions, are Fifth Schedule areas. The Land Revenue Code restricts transfer of land held by a member of a Scheduled Tribe to a non-tribal buyer there, and what is possible on a specific parcel depends on the parcel and on collector permission. This is the first thing to establish rather than the last, because it decides whether the rest of the exercise is worth doing.

When the record shows a partition the map does not

Batankan is the sub-division of a Khasra number after a partition or a part sale. The record is usually updated before the map is, so a Batankan that has been entered can still show as one undivided parcel on the Bhu-Naksha. Where you hold separate sheets for the divided parts, joining them is the quickest way to see the parent parcel whole again.

Joining the sheets you end up with

A holding of several Khasra numbers is several sheets, and the boundary that matters is usually the line where two of them meet. Land at a village edge needs sheets from both villages.

Joining them is ordinary work: line the sheets up along the boundaries they share, so the lines that continue across the join actually continue. Done by hand it is fiddly; done on a canvas that snaps edges together it takes a few minutes, and the result is one continuous map you can print, send to a valuer, or attach to a diversion application.