Glossary

Chhattisgarh land & survey glossary

Plain-language meanings for the words on your B-1 / P-II (RoR) and Bhu-Naksha (village map), what each one is, and which of them you actually need before joining your sheets.

Bhu-Nakshaभू-नक्शा

The cadastral map of a revenue village, showing each Khasra number with its boundaries. It is served a sheet at a time, so a holding of several Khasra numbers, or one sitting at a sheet edge, needs more than one sheet to see whole.

Khasra numberखसरा नंबर

The field number: one numbered parcel in a revenue village. The map is drawn against it, the B-1 lists it and the P-II records what was grown on it.

B-1B-1

Chhattisgarh's record of rights: the holder, the Khasra numbers under the holding, the area of each and the class of land. This is the half of the record a title question is answered from. The other half is the P-II.

P-IIP-II

The Khasra register: what was grown on each field, season by season, and how the land was actually used. A question about cultivation, irrigation or crop loss is answered here rather than on the B-1, and the two are served together on Bhuiyan.

Rin Pustikaऋण पुस्तिका

The holder's land passbook, carrying the holding's details and any loan charged against it. It is what a co-operative or a bank asks to see, and it is the document a farmer actually keeps, as against the register entry it is copied from.

Kisamकिस्म

How the land is classified in the record, which 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, and a change to it is applied for at the tehsil.

Batankanबटांकन

The sub-division of a Khasra number into separate parts after a partition or a part sale. The record is usually updated before the map is, so a Batankan that has been entered can still show as one undivided parcel on the Bhu-Naksha.

Namantaranनामांतरण

Mutation: the entry that records a transfer by sale, inheritance or partition against the holding. Until it is sanctioned the B-1 still names the previous holder, which is what a buyer checking a Khasra number needs to know.

Diversion

The permission that changes a parcel's recorded use away from agricultural. Building on farm land without it is a problem that surfaces later, at sanction or at sale. It is applied for at the tehsil and sanctioned by the Revenue Officer.

Scheduled Area

The Fifth Schedule areas, which include the Bastar and Surguja divisions. The Land Revenue Code restricts transfer of land held by a member of a Scheduled Tribe to a non-tribal buyer in these areas. What is possible on a specific parcel depends on the parcel and on collector permission, so it is the first thing to establish rather than the last.

Patwari Halkaपटवारी हलका

The Patwari's circle: the group of villages whose records one Patwari maintains. A map or B-1 request is routed through the Halka the village falls in, and a holding that straddles two Halkas means dealing with two Patwaris.

Tehsildarतहसीलदार

The revenue officer for a tehsil, who sanctions mutations and diversions, issues certified copies of the B-1 and decides applications the Patwari prepares. Where the record and the ground disagree, the measurement request goes here.

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