Chhattisgarh land records on CG Bhuiyan: read the stack

The B-1 Khatauni is the account of a Bhumiswami: it consolidates the plots held, the area, the land revenue and the rights, and it is the document most people mean when they say the record of rights. It answers the ownership question, whose name the land stands in, but it does so at the level of the holding, not the individual plot on the ground, and it is prima facie evidence rather than final title.

The P-II Khasra drops to the plot. For a given Khasra number it records the area, the land use or classification, and the crop, and it is where the physical facts of a parcel are set down. The Girdawari, kept alongside it, is the season-by-season inspection the Patwari records of what is growing and who is cultivating, which is the register that comes closest to showing possession as opposed to paper ownership.

The point of reading all three is that they can disagree, and the disagreement is the information. A B-1 that names one Bhumiswami while the Girdawari shows another in possession, a P-II area that does not match the B-1, a crop entry that contradicts the seller's account of the land, each is a thread to pull before money moves. Read singly, any one register can look clean; read together, they tell you whether the ownership, the plot and the possession actually line up.

Each register is a separate report on CG Bhuiyan; the work is pulling all three and comparing them.

On CG Bhuiyan

Then reconcile

No single register is the record. Each answers one question, and the three must agree.

Four confusions send most Chhattisgarh record checks wrong.

Most states let a buyer treat one document as the record. Chhattisgarh does not, because it splits the facts a buyer needs across three registers: the B-1 for who owns, the P-II for what the plot is, and the Girdawari for who holds it. Each is reliable for its own question and silent on the others, so reading one and assuming the rest is how a buyer misses the possession dispute or the area shortfall the other registers would have shown. With the three reconciled, the ordinary checks follow, but the B-1 keeps its place as prima facie evidence rather than title. The registered deed carries ownership, the diversion order governs use, and where the Bhumiswami belongs to an aboriginal tribe the transfer is restricted under the land reforms law. So the stack opens the enquiry, three registers read as one, and the deed, the order and the office close it.