Do you know there was a survey department in the Mysore state even before the British? Only survey records confirm the right to any land. These survey records form the basis of most revenue department records. Survey documents become very important for any land survey. What all survey documents are there pertaining to the land. What is their significance? The method of obtaining them is explained below.
Survey documents are the documents containing the description of the land, map, nature of the land, ownership rights. Knowing the importance of survey, Mysore State had introduced survey documents even before independence. First, the Mysore Code was established. Under that, the departmental Land Revenue Code was in force before independence.
The Land Revenue Act 1961 came into effect on 1-4-1964 after the repeal of the Land Code after independence. Later Sections 1 to 202 with many amendments were incorporated into the Act. According to this, the Land Revenue Rules and Sub-Rules are in force. According to it, the main points of the Land Revenue Act are as follows:
Land Rural Survey
1) Sections 106 to 113 in Chapter 9, Sections 114 to 126 in Chapter 10, Sections 137 to 147 in Chapter 12, Section 148 in Chapter 13 of the Land Revenue Act 1961 contain:
Accordingly:
(1) Land Survey Original Note and Pakka Book :
Identifies the original karda (original owner) of a land. It is an important survey record in confirming the ownership of the property. This document is essential for buying, partitioning and selling land.
(2) Land Re Survey Original Note
(3) Land Share Survey (RR (Left-Right) Pakka Book)
(4) Land Aakar band
(5) Land Supplemental Aakar Bandh (Podi Rearrangement)
(6) ‘A’ ‘B’ Kharab Utar (waste land)
(7) Village Land Map (Village Map finalized after all the above process)
(8) Demarcation (identification of stress etc.)
City Survey
The above processes have identified the rural survey system as covering both urban and rural holding lands as well as Kharabu lands (waste land).
In accordance with this, any local urban development organizations/authorities can carry out systematic non-agricultural urban development’s according to the Country Plan Act, the Area Planning Act has been made to suit the local urban development organizations and the Act, Law and Regulations have been made and the city layout system has been legally enforced.
Among them the important are classified for planned execution as some municipal corporations, mega city corporations, and metropolitan city corporation to stabilize the urban system in a planned manner. Accordingly, in the case of Bangalore Municipal Corporation, the lands which have been converted into non-agricultural land for industrial, commercial, or residential use are classified under the City Survey.
