How to get village map sheets in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Which land in the islands has a village map at all, where the sheets for a survey number come from, what to quote to the tehsil office, and how to join them.
Most land in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has no village map, because it is forest or tribal reserve rather than revenue land. The maps exist for the settled revenue villages, mostly in the Andamans. There, each parcel is a survey number on the village map, and the Record of Rights says who holds it. If your land is in one of those villages, this is how to get the sheets.
What you are actually asking for
- Village map
- The survey map of a revenue village, drawn across several sheets, with every survey number and its boundaries.
- Survey number
- The number of one parcel on that map. It is unique only within its village, so always quote the two together.
- Record of Rights
- The revenue record for the survey number. Not a map, but the source of the exact village and survey numbers every map request is keyed on.
Getting the sheets
- Take the district, tehsil and revenue village from the Record of Rights or the Patta, as the record spells them, and list every survey number in the holding.
- Check the Andaman and Nicobar Administration's current online services for what is published.
- Otherwise ask the tehsil office for your area for the village map sheets your survey numbers fall on. In South Andaman that is Port Blair, Ferrargunj or Little Andaman; in North and Middle Andaman, Rangat, Mayabunder or Diglipur.
- Ask for every sheet, not just the first, and check each one: the village name, the survey numbers, and that the edges are legible.
Land with no map
Much of the Nicobar district, and several areas of the Andamans, are tribal reserves, held by the islands' indigenous communities under their own customs. Outsiders cannot simply acquire that land or even enter it, and there is no cadastral sheet for it. Forest land is outside the revenue record too. If you are unsure which your parcel is, ask the tehsil office before anything else.
Joining the sheets
A holding of several survey numbers, a parcel near a sheet edge, or land on a village boundary all end the same way: several sheets, each showing a fragment. Line them 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 a partition, a loan file or a building application.
🔗 Andaman and Nicobar Islands land records: documents, districts and tehsils →Frequently asked questions
Where do I get the village map for my land in Port Blair?+
From the tehsil office for your area, through the revenue department of the Andaman and Nicobar Administration. Quote the revenue village and survey numbers from your Record of Rights, and check the Administration's current online services first.
Why is there no map for my land?+
It may be forest land or a tribal reserve, neither of which is in the revenue cadastre, or the settlement may not be a revenue village. The tehsil office can tell you which.
How many sheets can I join into one map?+
There is no limit. Join two sheets or twenty, every sheet of a village, or sheets from two neighbouring villages. It is one canvas and one exported map.