26 August 2026·7 min read

How to get your Tippan and village map sheets in Karnataka

What a Tippan is, how it differs from the village map, when you need an 11E sketch instead, and how survey requests are actually filed.

Karnataka has an unusually clear division between its records, and knowing which one you actually need saves a wasted trip. The RTC tells you who holds the survey number and what has been grown on it. The Tippan is the survey sketch of that number, its shape with measurements along each boundary. The village map shows the whole village and where your number sits inside it.

Tippan, village map, 11E, which one

Tippan: The measured sketch of one survey number or hissa. Karnataka's equivalent of an FMB sketch. One number, one Tippan, so a holding across several numbers means several.
Village map: The cadastral map of the revenue village showing every survey number with its boundaries, issued across several sheets for a large village. This is what puts your parcel in context.
11E sketch: Prepared by a licensed surveyor when part of a survey number is being sold, showing the portion transferred within the parent parcel. Registration of a part-parcel sale generally needs one, and this is a survey job, not a download.

Start from the RTC

Pull the RTC first and take the survey number and hissa exactly as recorded: 45/2 is hissa 2 of survey 45, and asking for 45 gets you the parent parcel rather than the share you hold. Where a holding has been split, that split is a Podi, and each resulting hissa carries its own record and its own sketch.

💡 Note the district, taluk and village exactly as the RTC spells them, and note the hobli where it is given. Karnataka village names repeat across taluks.

Filing a survey request

Sketches that have to be freshly prepared (a sub-division sketch after a Podi, an 11E for a part sale, boundary work), go through the state's survey request system, where the application is filed and tracked with the survey department rather than arranged informally with a surveyor. Records that already exist are a different matter, and the Village Accountant is the first point of contact for those.

💡 Which sketches are available as downloads and which require a survey request changes; check the current position before assuming a document has to be commissioned.

Why you end up with several drawings

A holding across three survey numbers is three Tippans. A parcel that has been through Podi is a Tippan per hissa. A large village map is several sheets. Each drawing is a fragment of the same piece of ground, and the boundary you care about is usually where two fragments meet.

Lined up along their shared edges they become one continuous map: the whole holding on one page, at full resolution, which is what a valuer, a buyer or a Podi application is easier to discuss over.

🔗 Karnataka land records: documents, districts and taluks →

Frequently asked questions

What is a Tippan?+

The survey sketch of a single survey number or hissa in Karnataka, drawn with measurements along its boundaries: the state's equivalent of an FMB sketch. One Tippan covers one number.

When do I need an 11E sketch?+

When part of a survey number is being sold. The 11E shows the portion being transferred within the parent parcel, and registration of a part-parcel sale generally requires it. It is prepared by a licensed surveyor.

What is Podi?+

The sub-division of a survey number into separate holdings after a partition, a part sale or a grant. Each resulting hissa gets its own record and its own sketch, which is why one original number can end up as many sheets.