Some More Terms and Their Definations

1. Mussavie (Index Map) : Geographic data is recorded on special kind of paper maps for each village.These are known as the Mussavies .These are surveyed paper maps at different scales depending upon village area, normally at a scale of 1”=40 Karam .The measuring unit on Mussavies is“karam”. Mussavies are developed at the time of settlement. No changes can be made in this record set till next settlement.

2. Shajrah Parcha /Latha/Kapra :The reflection mussavie on big cotton cloth map is known as “latha” or “kapra”. This record set is primarily kept by patwari of the village, who makes temporal changes like splitting or merging of land parcels. (usually with a red pencil)

3.Field Book: It is an alphanumeric representation of Mussavie, which keeps the entire attribute information related to every land parcel of that particular village .
The Attributes of Field Book includes:
•The dimensions of plot in various directions ,
•Old Khasra number (Plot ID of last settlement),
• New Khasra number (Plot ID of current settlement),
• Khatuni number (Farmer ID),
• Type of land for every parcel,
• Area of each type of every parcel.
• Aggregated chart of the village at the end (shows total land types and
their areas in the village, total agricultural land in the village and some
other aggregated information like total number of plots, etc.)

4.Records of Rights (Register Haqdaaraan-e-Zamin or Misl-e-Haqiat): This register contains ownership records and is developed at the time of settlement along with field book and Mussavie, and owner information. It indicates the ownership of each parcel .
Records of Rights Book contains
•Pedigree sheets (which gives the details of the cultivating and
landowner families of the village and their relationship. This record
set contains several indexes such as: Owner ID vs Parcel ID List
(Khaivet number vs Khasra number),Alphabetical index of owners
(Index Radeef war Malkaan) etc.
• Owner ID ,
• Participants in the Ownership,
• Land parcels comes under their Ownership,
• Share of each owner names of farmers who plough this field,
•Types and areas
• Information of levy and taxes .

5. Mutation Register (Register Intaqaal): This register dynamically changes as mutation in land records happen. This register contains all transitional land ownership record. At the time of new settlement it replaces the name of old owner with new owner. This is a very important register that contains the sale purchase value of mutation.

6.Khasra Girdawari: It is the crop inspection register, wherein entry of every crop cultivated in every Khasra number (per acre) is made after spot visit by the Patwari in presence of Lambardar (Village headman) and other interested persons. It also indicates ownership, person cultivating and the crop sown on the land. It is made twice in a year i.e. for crops of Kharif (October) and Rabi (March).

7. Roaznamchah (Diary): It is a daily report register in which all important daily events are written like crop health, pesticide attack on crop, land transfer or mutation, village boundary benchmark(SehHadda) status and other similar activities

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