Plot map download in West Bengal — Plot Map Request explained

Plot map or mouza map — decide this first

Banglarbhumi offers both, they sit next to each other in the same menu, and people request one while meaning the other. The difference is straightforward once stated.

A mouza map is the cadastral sheet for a whole revenue village. It shows every plot in the mouza, drawn together, with their boundaries and relative positions. It is a large document, often spread across several numbered sheets for a big mouza, and you use it when you need context — where your land sits relative to neighbours, a road, or a water body.

A plot map concerns a single dag number. It is the map output for one specific parcel, which is what you usually want when the question is about that plot and nothing else. It is a smaller and more focused document, and for most people asking about their own land it is the right request.

• You want the plot map if the question is about one dag number — its shape, its recorded extent, a copy for a file or an application.
• You want the mouza map if the question involves neighbours, relative position, access, or reading several plots together.
• You may want both for a purchase or a boundary question — the plot map identifies the parcel, the mouza sheet shows what surrounds it.

Where the service actually lives on the portal

The map and record requests all sit together under Service Delivery in Citizen Services. That whole menu is login-gated — the portal shows “Please Login and then click Citizen Services” until you sign in — and the request services carry a fee.

Three items in that menu get confused with each other, so it is worth being precise about what each one is for:

• Plot Map Request — the map for a plot. This is the one this page is about.
• Plot Info. Request — the *record* for a plot, not a map. Requests the plot information as a document rather than as an on-screen lookup.
• Mouza Map Request — the cadastral sheet for the whole mouza. Different service, different output, covered on our mouza map page.
• ROR Request — the Record of Rights (porcha) for a khatian. Also a record rather than a map.
• Signed ROR/PI/PLM Copy(s) — where signed copies of those outputs are handled. PI and PLM appear to refer to Plot Information and Plot Map, though the portal does not expand them.

What you need before you start

The request form works from identifiers selected out of the portal's own dropdowns, not from a description of your land. Gather these first — a half-remembered mouza name will not get you through it.

• District, Block and Mouza, chosen from the portal's lists. Portal spellings are transliterations and often differ from how the name is written locally.
• JL number — the Jurisdiction List number for the mouza. Mouza names repeat across West Bengal, so this is what pins down which one you mean.
• Dag (plot) number, exactly as written on your document. A dag number is only unique within a mouza, so it is meaningless without the three selections above.
• Which record generation your number belongs to — an RS number and an LR number for the same ground are different numbers. If your figure came from an older document, confirm the current one before requesting.
• A Banglarbhumi account, signed in, since Service Delivery is login-gated throughout.

Check the map exists before you pay for it

Map digitisation is not uniform across West Bengal, and where nothing has been digitised for your mouza no request will produce a sheet. The mouza map guide covers how to check availability before you pay for anything.

The portal exposes Mouza Map Availability Details under Citizen Services (signed in) for exactly this check. It answers one question — whether a digitised map exists for the mouza — and it is the sensible first move, because a plot map is derived from the mapped record for that mouza. If nothing has been digitised, no request will conjure a sheet into existence.

Where the online route ends, the offline one begins: the BL&LRO (Block Land & Land Reforms Office) for the block containing the mouza, or which can tell you whether an older or archival sheet exists and where it is held. Go with the district, block, mouza name, JL number and dag number written down.

The fee, and where to find the real number

A plot map request carries a fee. No amount appears on this page deliberately — what a request costs turns on the sheet, the district and what you are asking for, so a single quoted number would be wrong for most readers even on the day it was written.

The portal provides an Online Fees Calculator for this, and it displays the applicable amount at the point of payment. Those are the only two sources worth trusting.

Payment runs through the portal's eChallan flow. eChallan Generation produces the challan, and completing payment returns a GRN — write it down. If you later need to check whether a payment registered, GRN Search is in the same menu, and Application/Report Reprint will reproduce an output you have lost.

What a plot map does and does not establish

A plot map is a record output. It shows the parcel as it is drawn in the departmental record — its shape and its position among the plots around it.

It is not a survey of your boundary on the ground. Cadastral mapping was never intended to fix a line to the precision people assume when a dispute is running, and a map copy will not tell you where a wall should go. A physical demarcation by the department's surveyor, with the map copy as supporting material, is the usual first step for establishing the recorded line on the ground.

It is also not a title document. A map shows a shape; it says nothing about who holds the land, in what share, or whether anything is charged against it. The record side of that question is the Khatian and the plot information, and the transfer side of it is the registered deed — a different department entirely.