Which portal gives what
Bihar's Revenue and Land Reforms Department runs several websites, and the map, the register and the mutation live on different ones. As of September 2026:
| Portal | What you get there | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Bhu-Abhilekh (bhuabhilekh.bihar.gov.in) — the online record room of the Directorate of Land Records and Survey | Scanned revenue maps: the CS, RS and Chakbandi sheets of each mauza as PDF files; also scanned khatiyan and other record-room documents | Downloading the mauza naksha to measure in Naapi |
| Bhu Naksha Bihar (bhunaksha.bihar.gov.in) | The digitised map as an interactive viewer: pick district, circle (anchal), mauza and sheet, click a plot to see its khesra, khata and rakba; a plot map report (LPM) can be printed | Looking up one plot, checking a khesra number and its rakba, printing a plot sketch |
| Bihar Bhumi (biharbhumi.bihar.gov.in) | The register: jamabandi panji, khata and khesra details, rakba, land tax; online mutation (dakhil-kharij), LPC, parimarjan | Confirming the owner and the recorded area of the plot you measured |
| DLRS / Bihar Survey (dlrs.bihar.gov.in) | The special survey and settlement in progress, camp notices and forms; ordering printed revenue maps by post | Where a new survey has replaced the old map |
The portals change their pages from time to time; the names above are the ones to search for if a link has moved.
Downloading a mauza map from Bhu-Abhilekh
- Open the Bhu-Abhilekh portal and register once with a mobile number (an OTP is sent); sign in.
- Choose the document type Map (नक्शा), then the district, Rural or Urban, the revenue thana (this is the anchal for most purposes) and the mauza. Mauzas are listed with their thana number in brackets — the number that identifies the village in every record.
- The list shows the sheets held for that mauza: which survey (CS, RS, Chakbandi) and which sheet — E for a whole village on one sheet, or 1, 2, 3 … for a village that needed several.
- Open a sheet to view it and download the PDF. The file is named after its thana number and mauza, for example
Thana No-118-Kamariya Chak-E.pdf, and the same name is used in the CS, RS and Chakbandi folders, so note which survey a file came from. - In Naapi, press Choose map PDF or image under 1 Map and pick the file — or drop it on the window. The sheet opens with its drawn lines read, ready for Find plot by khesra number.
The maps on the portal are scans of the original sheets and their quality varies: most are crisp drawings, a few are photographs of worn paper. On a poor scan, use Auto-detect and Draw rather than the number search, and set the scale by Known area.
Looking up a plot on Bhu Naksha
Bhu Naksha shows the same villages as a zoomable map. Select the district, sub-division, circle, mauza and sheet, then click the plot: its khesra, khata number, raiyat (owner) name, land class and rakba appear in a panel. Map Report prints a sketch of the single plot with its neighbours. This is the quickest way to confirm a khesra number before searching for it in Naapi, and the rakba it shows is what a measurement should be compared with.
The Bhu Naksha view is a digitised copy of the RS or CS map; where the RS is not yet published for a district, the CS is shown. Its plot shapes are the map's shapes — the same sheet Naapi measures — not a satellite outline.
Checking the record on Bihar Bhumi
On Bihar Bhumi choose Apna Khata Dekhen (अपना खाता देखें) or the jamabandi register, select district, anchal, halka and mauza, and search by khata, khesra or the raiyat's name. The register gives the rakba in acre and decimal (or hectare), the khata, the current jamabandi number and the land tax. If the plot has been mutated since the survey, the register shows the present holders and their shares while the map still shows the original plot outline; a share measured on the map is then a fraction of the whole.
Ordering a printed map
The Directorate delivers printed revenue maps by post: the map order service on the DLRS portal takes the district, thana, mauza and sheet, a fee per sheet, and posts the printed sheet to the address given. A printed sheet is the better original for a photograph; the portal PDF is the better input for measurement, because its lines are drawn rather than scanned.
From the portal to a measured plot
Once the PDF is on your device: open it in Naapi, type the khesra under 2 Find plot, confirm the scale under 3 Map scale (the sheet's legend says 16 inches to the mile for almost every village map), and read the area. The manual covers each step; How to read a mauza naksha explains the sheet itself and why a measured area and the register's rakba can differ.
Villages already loaded into Naapi's shared library need none of this — they open with a tap; see the library page.