How to find your Mouza name and JL number

Two places the answer lives

There are only two reliable sources for your Mouza name and JL number, and they check each other. The first is the paperwork already in your house. The second is the official portal's Mouza Information lookup, which lists the Mouzas under a District and Block along with their JL numbers.

Start with the papers. They are specific to your land, they need no website and no account, and they usually carry the JL number already. Use the portal second — not to guess, but to confirm the spelling the records actually use and to pick the right entry out of a dropdown.

If you want to know what these terms mean before you go looking for them, read what a Mouza and JL number are first. This page assumes you just want yours.

Reading it off documents you already hold

Government paperwork about land in West Bengal is written to a convention. Notices and orders name the land as *Mouza X, J.L. No. N, P.S. Y* — the Mouza, its JL number and the police station, together in one line. Once you know to look for that shape, it is hard to miss on a page.

Documents that commonly carry it:

• Parcha / porcha (ROR) — the record-of-rights extract. The Mouza and JL number appear in the header block above the khatian details.
• Sale deed or gift deed — the schedule of property at the end describes the land formally, and that description is where the Mouza, JL number and P.S. are spelled out.
• Land revenue (khajna) receipt — issued against the holding, so it identifies the Mouza the holding sits in.
• Mutation order or mutation application copy — the case was filed against a specific Mouza and the order repeats it.
• Older survey papers — RS-era and LR-era documents both carry the Mouza and JL number.

Using Mouza Information on the portal

Mouza Information sits on banglarbhumi.gov.in alongside Know Your Property, RS-LR Plot Information, Mutation Case Status, Conversion Case Status, Query Search and Public Grievance. Sign in before you use it. The portal is unhelpfully quiet about this — its dropdowns fill in whether or not you have a session, so nothing signals the requirement until a lookup returns the login page instead of an answer. If that happens, you have not picked the wrong menu; you have simply hit the sign-in.

The lookup works down the administrative hierarchy: choose your District, then your Block, and the Mouzas within that Block are listed with their JL numbers. You are reading a list, not searching for a needle — so if you are unsure of the exact name, scan the whole list rather than typing a guess.

This is also the fastest way to settle an argument. If two people in a family remember the Mouza name differently, one of the two spellings will be sitting in that Block's list and the other will not.

Your village name is not in the list

This is the single most common outcome for people doing this for the first time, and it very rarely means the records are missing. Three explanations cover nearly all of it.

• Transliteration. The records were compiled in Bengali and rendered into English by hand. Chandpur / Chandapur, Baruipur / Baruipore, Gopalnagar / Gopal Nagar — all live variants. Try the alternatives, and try splitting or joining the words.
• Your village is a hamlet inside a larger Mouza. Settlements people name in daily conversation are often *para*, hamlets or newer localities sitting inside a Mouza with an entirely different, older name. The land is listed; it is listed under the Mouza.
• Wrong Block. Block boundaries have been redrawn over the decades and do not always match where people think they live. If the neighbouring Block's list looks more familiar, that is your answer.

Why the police station matters

The JL number is a serial within a police station (thana) area, not within a Block. The jurisdiction lists were compiled thana by thana during the colonial cadastral survey, long before Development Blocks were created — which is why official notices quote the P.S. right next to the JL number.

The practical consequence: a JL number is not unique across West Bengal. J.L. No. 42 exists in a great many thana areas, referring to completely different Mouzas. Quoting a bare JL number to someone tells them almost nothing.

So when you write your land details down — for an advocate, a bank, a relative, or your own file — write all of it: District, Block, P.S., Mouza name and JL number. That combination is unambiguous, survives spelling variation, and is exactly what every form and every office will ask you for.

What you can do once you have it

The Mouza and JL number are the key that unlocks the rest of the portal's public side. With them you can run Know Your Property to pull a khatian or a plot, use RS-LR Plot Information to see how a plot reads across record generations, and check whether a khatian that isn't appearing was simply being searched in the wrong Mouza all along.

They are also the input to the document requests under Service Delivery — ROR Request, Plot Info. Request, Plot Map Request and Mouza Map Request — which are login-gated and carry charges. Those charges are covered on the fees page; the lookups described here are free.

One practical note on doing this from a phone. Bhumir Tathya is an unofficial, free, bilingual Android app that we build at Devikon; it keeps records you have already viewed readable offline, which is genuinely useful when you are standing on the land itself with poor signal. A saved copy shows the record as it stood when you viewed it, so re-check anything you intend to act on against the official portal.