How to get your Mouza map and Dag sheets in Assam

Assam organises land records around the Mouza, not the village, and that one difference reshapes everything else. Your land is a Dag number within a Mouza; the map you want is the Mouza map; the officials you deal with sit at Mouza and Revenue Circle level. Coming at it expecting a village-by-village structure is the quickest way to be sent to the wrong counter.

The records, and how they fit together

Dag number

The plot number, Assam's equivalent of a survey number. Land is identified by its Dag within a Mouza.

Chitha

The field register kept by village revenue staff: each Dag with its area, classification and current occupant.

Jamabandi

The record of rights: holders, their Dags and the revenue assessed. This and the Chitha are what a holding is verified against.

Mouza map

The cadastral map of the Mouza, showing every Dag with its boundaries: issued across several adjacent sheets.

Check the patta type before anything else

Assam distinguishes between kinds of patta, and the distinction is not a formality. A periodic, Myadi, patta is heritable and transferable, and is what settled agricultural land is normally held under. An annual, Eksana, patta is not, in the same way. A transaction that assumes the wrong one is a transaction in trouble, so the patta type is worth establishing before the map, the extent or anything else.

Getting the sheets

1. Establish the district, Revenue Circle, Mouza and Dag numbers exactly as the Jamabandi records them.
2. Ask for the Mouza map sheets covering those Dags, and the sheet the boundary continues onto where your land sits near an edge.
3. The Circle Office is where mutations, certified copies and most record corrections are handled; the Lat Mandal is the village-level official who maintains the Chitha and reports changes on the ground.
4. Check each sheet is legible where your Dag sits before you leave with it.

Land that crosses a Mouza boundary

A holding at the edge of a Mouza needs sheets from both Mouzas, and neither on its own shows the boundary that matters. This is the most common reason an Assam holding cannot be seen in one drawing, and the most straightforward to fix, because the sheets do line up along the boundary they share.

Put them on one canvas, align the shared edges, and the two half-views become one continuous Mouza map covering the whole holding: nothing uploaded, and the export is at full resolution.