How to get the Shajra and village map for a Delhi Khasra number
Delhi's land records are village records. Where the Shajra Kishtwar for a revenue village comes from, what the Lal Dora line means on it, and how to assemble sheets that span a holding.
Delhi is a city with a revenue map underneath it. Roughly 360 revenue villages still sit under the built-up area, and land in them is described the way it always was: a Khasra number on a Shajra, held under a Khatauni. Anyone dealing with an urban village, a Lal Dora property, a regularised colony or an acquisition file is reading a village map, whatever the postal address says.
What you are actually asking for
- Shajra Kishtwar
- The field map of a revenue village: every Khasra number drawn with its boundaries, at survey scale. Drawn across several sheets for any village of size.
- Musavi
- The scaled village map prepared at settlement, from which the Shajra derives. Where a measurement is disputed, this is the drawing the revenue office works from.
- Khatauni
- The text record: who holds which Khasra numbers, under which Khata, and how much area. Read together with the Shajra, never instead of it.
Find your revenue village first
This is the step people skip, and it is the one that decides whether the request works. A Delhi address does not name a revenue village, and the village boundaries do not follow colony boundaries. Get the revenue village and Khasra number off an existing document — a Khatauni, a sale deed, an acquisition notice — and note the sub-division it falls under. Delhi has 11 revenue districts and 33 sub-divisions, and the sub-division is what a request is keyed on.
Getting the sheets
- Check the DLRC portal for your district first. What is published varies by district, and the Khatauni is more consistently available online than the Shajra.
- For the map, approach the tehsil office for your sub-division, or the Patwari for the halka the village falls in. Ask for the Shajra sheets covering your Khasra numbers.
- Ask for every sheet the holding spans, not just the first. A boundary you care about is frequently on the adjoining sheet, and a second visit costs more than the extra copies.
- If the Lal Dora boundary matters to you, say so explicitly — it is a line on the Shajra, and you want the sheet that actually carries it rather than one that stops short.
Why Delhi holdings almost always span sheets
Delhi's Khasra numbers were drawn for farmland and then built over. A single modern plot can sit across two or three old Khasra numbers; an acquisition file routinely covers dozens. Add the Lal Dora line, which cuts through the middle of many villages and separates two differently-treated kinds of land, and the drawing you actually need is almost never one sheet.
Line the sheets up along the boundaries they share and the village becomes one continuous map. It is the difference between a stack of fragments and a drawing you can mark up, print at A0 and put in front of a valuer, a bank or a court.
🔗 Delhi land records: documents, districts and sub-divisions →Frequently asked questions
Can I download a Delhi Shajra online?+
The Khatauni is the part most reliably available through the DLRC portal. Shajra sheets are less consistently published and are often obtained through the tehsil office for your sub-division or the Patwari for the halka. Check the current portal first, then go to the tehsil.
Does this work for Lal Dora and urban-village land?+
Yes. The Shajra for a revenue village covers the Lal Dora abadi and the agricultural Khasra numbers around it alike, and the joined map shows you where the line runs. What that means legally for a particular property is a question for the tehsil and your advocate, not for a map.
How do I find which revenue village my property is in?+
From an existing document rather than from the address — a Khatauni, a sale deed, an acquisition notice or a mutation record will name the revenue village and the Khasra number. Colony names and revenue village names do not correspond, and guessing produces the wrong sheet.