Maintenance of Land Records

Use the picture to answer the questions:

• What do you think is depicted in the picture?
• Who is responsible for reporting what is happening in the picture?

Describe the responsibilities of a patwari.

What role does the tehsildar play in the district administration?

Name the three inspections carried out by the patwari in a year.

What do you understand by Khasra?

What is a patwari?

Tehsildars look after land disputes and collection of _____ under the district collector.
 

The register of harvest inspections is called _____.
 

The officer who keeps a record of land is called _____.

In what ways are the work of the Panchayat that you read about in the chapter 'Panchayati Raj' and the work of the Patwari related to each other?