Bhu Naksha West Bengal: the dag on the eBhuchitra map

The mouza map turns a dag number into a position in the village. Open eBhuchitra on Banglarbhumi with the mouza and dag, and the plot appears among its neighbours, with an outline and access shown. That is the first spatial check: does the dag sit where the seller described, does a road reach it, and are its neighbours the plots the Khatian lists? Catching a dag that is landlocked or positioned differently from the seller's description on the map is cheaper than catching it on the ground after payment.

Then reconcile the map with the Khatian. The map gives the shape; the Khatian gives the area; and they should describe one plot. Where the drawn outline and the recorded area pull apart, the dag has a discrepancy that should be resolved before any value is placed on it. Because West Bengal is still completing its cadastral digitisation in some areas, a mouza whose map is not yet fully updated may show a rougher outline than a recently resurveyed one.

The map is silent on the bargadar position and ownership. A dag that draws clearly on eBhuchitra still earns a read of the bargadar column on the Khatian; a dag that looks unrestricted on the map may still carry a registered sharecropper whose right the map never shows. So use the map to place the dag, reconcile the shape with the Khatian area, and read the bargadar column separately before relying on either.

Setting the mouza and dag correctly is the whole of the search; the reconciliation with the Khatian follows.

On Banglarbhumi

Use the map to place the dag; use the Khatian and the ground for area, boundary and rights.

Four map confusions in West Bengal.

The map's job in West Bengal is to find the spatial surprises: the dag that is smaller than described, the one with no road access, the one bordered by an irrigation channel rather than a path. Catching those on eBhuchitra and reconciling the shape with the Khatian area is cheaper than finding the discrepancy after possession. Its limits are the cadastral record and the two questions it cannot answer: area (the Khatian's answer) and bargadar rights (the BL&LRO's answer). Between the eBhuchitra map for position, the Khatian for area and the bargadar column, the registered deed for title, and a walk on the ground for the exact edge, a West Bengal dag can be placed and understood. From the map alone, only its position is certain.