Tehsildar
तहसीलदारUttarakhand land records glossary · People & Offices
What is Tehsildar?
The revenue officer in charge of a tehsil; decides mutations and disputes.
The tehsildar (with naib-tehsildars under them) heads the tehsil revenue staff. Mutation orders, record corrections, demarcation orders and many small land disputes are decided at the tehsildar's court before anything goes to higher courts.
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- Kanungo - Supervisor of patwaris; checks and verifies their records.
- 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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