How to read a B-1 and a P-II in Chhattisgarh
What the two halves of a Chhattisgarh land record tell you, what the Kisam column decides, and where the Rin Pustika fits.
Chhattisgarh answers two different questions with two different documents, and asking the wrong one of them is why people conclude the record is incomplete. The B-1 says who holds the land. The P-II says what has been done with it. Both are served together on Bhuiyan for the same village and Khasra number.
The B-1: who holds it
The B-1 records the holder, the Khasra numbers under the holding, the area of each and the class of land. Where several names appear against a holding they are co-holders, and a sale by one is not a sale of the whole. This is the half a bank, a buyer or a court reads first.
The Kisam column
Kisam is how the land is classified in the record, and it decides the revenue payable and, in practice, what can be grown or built on it. It is a column on the B-1 rather than a separate document. A classification that looks wrong is corrected by applying at the tehsil, and building against it is not something to work around: diversion is the permission that changes recorded use away from agricultural, and without it the problem surfaces later, at sanction or at sale.
The P-II: what has been done with it
The P-II is the field register, recording what was grown on each Khasra number season by season and how the land was actually used. A question about cultivation, irrigation or crop loss is answered here rather than from the B-1, and a compensation claim is usually decided on what it shows.
The Rin Pustika
The Rin Pustika is the holder's land passbook, carrying the holding's details and any loan charged against it. It is the document a farmer actually keeps, as against the register entry it is copied from, and it is what a co-operative or a bank asks to see. It is issued through the tehsil.
Namantaran and Batankan
Namantaran is mutation, the entry that records a transfer against the holding; until it is sanctioned the B-1 still names the previous holder whatever a deed says. Batankan is the sub-division of a Khasra number after a partition or part sale. They are separate steps and they do not move at the same speed as the map, which is why a partitioned holding routinely reads as divided on the B-1 and undivided on the Bhu-Naksha.
From the record to the map
The B-1 lists Khasra numbers and stops there. Which of them adjoin each other, and what the holding looks like as one shape, comes from the map sheets they fall on. Joining those sheets into one drawing is usually the last step before a valuation, a diversion application or a compensation file.
🔗 Chhattisgarh land and survey glossary →Frequently asked questions
Is the B-1 proof of ownership?+
No. It is the record of rights and says what the revenue record shows. Title comes from the deeds and the chain behind them, and the record lags the facts wherever a mutation is still pending.
What does the Kisam column decide?+
How the land is classified, which sets the revenue payable and, in practice, what can be grown or built on it. Changing recorded use away from agricultural needs diversion, applied for at the tehsil.
What is a Rin Pustika used for?+
It is the holder's land passbook, carrying the holding's details and any loan charged against it. A co-operative or a bank asks to see it, and it is issued through the tehsil.