Patwari / Lekhpal
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What is Patwari / Lekhpal?
The village-level revenue official who maintains land records.
The patwari (called lekhpal in UP; in Uttarakhand hills the patwari also has police powers in many areas) keeps the khasra, khatauni and village map up to date, records crops, and reports mutations. Any land process - mutation, correction, demarcation - starts with the patwari's report.
Related terms
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- Tehsildar - The revenue officer in charge of a tehsil; decides mutations and disputes.
- Pargana - A historical revenue unit between tehsil and village, still printed on records.
- SRO (Sub-Registrar Office) - The office where deeds are registered and copied into the record.
- Mauza - The revenue village - the unit for which records and maps are kept.
- Tok - A hamlet or named cluster of fields within a hill village.
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