How to get Shajra map sheets in Ladakh

Ladakh's land records come from Jammu and Kashmir's system, which it kept when it became a Union Territory in 2019. Each field is a Khasra number. The Shajra is the village map that draws them, derived from the Musavi, the settlement map the village was surveyed onto. The Jamabandi lists who holds each Khasra; the map shows where it is.

What you are actually asking for

Shajra

The field map of the revenue village, with every Khasra number and its boundaries. A village runs across several sheets.

Musavi

The scaled settlement map the Shajra derives from. It is what the revenue office works from when a measurement is in doubt.

Tatima

A supplementary sketch drawn when a Khasra is divided. If your field was partitioned, the Tatima shows its current parts.

Start with the Jamabandi

Get the Jamabandi or a Fard first. It gives the district, tehsil and village as the revenue office spells them, and the exact Khasra numbers in your Khewat, including any that were split. A map request on the wrong number, or on the number from before a Tatima, comes back with the wrong sheet.

Getting the sheets

1. Find your district, Leh or Kargil, and your tehsil as the Jamabandi names them.
2. Ask the Patwari of your village, or the tehsil office, for the Shajra sheet each Khasra number falls on.
3. Where the village runs to several sheets, take every sheet your numbers fall on, not just the first. Where a field was partitioned, ask for the Tatima too.
4. Check each sheet: the village name, the Khasra numbers, and that the edges are legible, because the edges are what you will line up.

Joining the sheets

Cultivated land in Ladakh often lies in narrow fields along streams and channels, so a holding of a few Khasra numbers can run across more than one sheet. Line the sheets up along the boundaries they share so the lines crossing the join continue, and you have one continuous map of the holding, ready to print or attach to an Intiqal, a loan file or a court annexure.