How to get your Musavi and Shajra sheets in Haryana

Haryana describes land through the grid the consolidation left behind, and that grid is what decides which sheet you need. A Murabba is twenty-five Killas. A holding is a list of Killa numbers inside one or more Murabbas. Read on paper, that list tells you the area and nothing at all about which of those squares touch each other.

What you are actually asking for

Musavi

The scaled field map of the village, drawn across several sheets, showing each Murabba and the Killa numbers inside it. This is the thing that has to be joined back together.

Shajra Kishtwar

The field map of the village, the same drawing. Ask for it by its full name: Shajra alone is also the first word of the Shajra Nasab, the family pedigree table.

Tatima Shajra

The sheet drawn after a Killa or Khasra is partitioned, showing shares of a parent parcel that the main Musavi still draws as one.

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

Pull the Jamabandi for the holding first. It gives you the Murabba and Killa numbers as the department writes them, along with the area in Kanal and Marla. Those numbers are what the map request is keyed on, and an area in Kanal and Marla is worth converting before you compare it to anything quoted in acres.

Note the district, tehsil and village exactly as the Jamabandi spells them. Village names repeat across tehsils, and the tehsil is what disambiguates them.

Getting the map sheets

1. List the Murabbas your Killa numbers fall in. The Murabba, not the Killa, is what tells you which sheet of the Musavi to ask for.
2. Ask for the Musavi sheets covering every one of those Murabbas. A holding assembled from Killas in three Murabbas is a request for three sheets, not one.
3. Ask separately for the Tatima Shajra of any Killa that has been partitioned. The main Musavi still draws it as one square, so without the Tatima the divided shares are invisible.
4. Check each sheet before you leave: the village name, the Murabba numbers on it, and that your Killa numbers are legible. An unreadable edge is exactly the part you will need when you line the sheets up.

When the deed predates the consolidation

Chakbandi replaced scattered strips with the Murabba and Killa grid, giving each holder fewer and larger blocks. Land described in a pre-consolidation document by old Khasra numbers does not map straight onto the current Killa numbering, and placing it needs the consolidation record rather than the current Musavi alone. That is a tehsil question, and it is ordinary work rather than a sign that something is wrong.

Joining the sheets you end up with

An assembly of Killa numbers from several Murabbas is several sheets, and the boundary that matters is usually where two of them meet. Land at a village edge needs sheets from both villages. Each sheet shows a fragment of what you are trying to see.

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 plan you can print at A0, mark up and take to a valuation or a site visit.