How to download Bhu-Naksha map sheets in Madhya Pradesh
MP Bhulekh serves the Khasra record and the village map from one portal but one sheet at a time. How to pull every sheet a holding spans, and why the map often lags the record.
Madhya Pradesh is better off than most states here: one portal, MP Bhulekh, carries both halves of the record. The B-1 tells you who holds a Khasra number and how much of it there is; the Bhu-Naksha view draws the same numbers on the village map. What the portal will not give you is a whole village in one image. The map comes a sheet at a time, and a holding at a sheet edge is simply cut.
What you are actually asking for
- Bhu-Naksha (village map)
- The cadastral map of a revenue village showing every Khasra number with its boundaries. This is the thing that has to be joined.
- Khasra (field register)
- Plot by plot: area, land class, irrigation, crop. The ground-level detail behind the B-1.
- B-1 / Khatauni
- The record of rights for the village — holder, area, class, revenue — for each Khasra number.
Pull the B-1 first
Take the Khasra numbers off the B-1 rather than off a sale deed, and note the district, tehsil and village exactly as the record spells them. MP has 55 districts and around 430 tehsils, and village names repeat freely across them. A request against the right village name in the wrong tehsil returns a real sheet for the wrong land, which is worse than returning nothing.
Getting the map sheets
- On MP Bhulekh, open the Bhu-Naksha view and select district, tehsil and village.
- Enter a Khasra number. The viewer highlights it on the sheet it falls on, and offers that sheet to download or print.
- Repeat for each Khasra number you hold. After a partition these are rarely adjacent, and two of them can sit on different sheets.
- Check each sheet as it comes: village name, sheet identifier, and that your Khasra number is legible at the edges — the edge numbers are precisely the ones you need when aligning.
When the map and the record disagree
The commonest complaint in MP is that the downloaded sheet still shows a parent Khasra undivided when the B-1 already shows the shares. That is usually an incomplete Batankan: the sub-division has been recorded in the text but the map has not been redrawn against it. It is not an error you can fix by downloading again. The application goes to the tehsil, and until it completes the sheet will keep showing the older shape.
If the land has been diverted for non-agricultural use, expect the same lag in the other direction: the classification changes in the record long before anything about the drawing does.
Joining what you end up with
A holding of five Khasra numbers is commonly three or four sheets. Line them up along the boundaries they share, so the lines that continue across a join actually continue, and the export is one continuous map at full resolution — the drawing you can take to a diversion file, a valuation or a bank meeting instead of a folder of fragments.
🔗 Madhya Pradesh land records: documents, districts and tehsils →Frequently asked questions
Can I download a full village map in Madhya Pradesh?+
Not as one image. MP Bhulekh's Bhu-Naksha view serves the village a sheet at a time, keyed on Khasra number. Downloading every sheet a village spans and joining them is how you get the whole village as a single drawing.
Why does my Bhu-Naksha sheet still show the old Khasra number?+
Usually because Batankan — the sub-division — has been entered in the record but the map has not yet been redrawn against it. The B-1 updates first and the drawing follows. The application goes to the tehsil; downloading again will not change it.
What is the B-1 and how is it different from the map?+
The B-1 is the village record of rights: for each Khasra number, the holder, the area, the land class and the revenue. It describes the land in words. The Bhu-Naksha is the drawing that shows where the Khasra sits and how its boundaries run. You usually need both, and only the map has to be joined.