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Chittaசிட்டா

A ledger maintained by the VAO showing the land's classification (wet or dry) and tax details. Today Patta and Chitta are combined into a single online Patta-Chitta document.

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PattaThe legal document issued by the government proving who owns a specific piece of land, effectively an ownership certificate.A-RegisterThe master land register kept at the Taluk office. It holds public information about every survey number: original size, soil classification, tax assessment and irrigation source.AdangalA register tracking what is currently happening on the land: the crop grown, who is cultivating it, and tenancy details. Updated yearly.Field Measurement BookFMB stands for Field Measurement Book: the Survey Department's scaled sketch of a survey number, showing its boundaries, G-line, F-line and measurement ladder.

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