How to get your Shajra and village map sheets in Punjab

One Fard in Punjab carries three different numbers for the same land, and quoting the wrong one is the single commonest reason a map request comes back with something you did not want. The Khewat is the owner's holding. The Khatauni is the cultivator's. The Khasra is the field. Maps are issued against the Khasra.

What you are actually asking for

Shajra Kishtwar

The field map of the village, drawn across several sheets, showing each Khasra number with its boundaries. This is the thing that has to be joined back together.

Musavi

The scaled, measured version of the same map. Where the join between two sheets has to be accurate, this is what you want traced from.

Shajra Nasab

The family pedigree table for a holding. Not a map at all, despite the shared word, and a frequent source of confusion at the counter.

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

Pull the Fard Jamabandi first and take the Khasra numbers off it. They are what the sheets are issued against. While you are there, note the Khewat and Khatauni numbers too, because an office will often ask for them to locate the holding even though the map is keyed on the Khasra.

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

Getting the map sheets

1. Take every Khasra number in the holding off the Fard, not just the first one.
2. Ask for the Shajra sheets covering those Khasra numbers, through the PLRS portal or the Patwari for the village circle. Where a holding straddles a sheet line, ask for both sheets.
3. Ask for the neighbouring sheet as well where a boundary you care about runs along the edge of yours. The line you need to check continues onto the next sheet.
4. Check each sheet before you leave: the village name, the sheet identifier, and that your Khasra numbers are legible. An unreadable edge is the part you will need when you line them up.

Partitioned holdings and Takseem

Generations of partition are why a Punjab holding is so often scattered. Until a Takseem is completed the co-owners hold undivided shares in the whole, and the map draws the parent parcel as one. After it, the shares become parcels with their own boundaries. Which of those two states your land is in decides what you are looking at on the sheet, so it is worth establishing before you conclude the map is wrong.

Joining the sheets you end up with

A Khewat whose Khasra numbers are spread across the village 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.

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 take to the tehsil.