Your Khasra on a Map, Officially: Bhu-Naksha, the ApnaKhata App and Their Limitsआपका खसरा नक़्शे पर, आधिकारिक तरीक़े से: भू-नक्शा, अपनाखाता ऐप और उनकी सीमाएँ

संक्षेप में: अपने खसरे का नक़्शा देखने के दो आधिकारिक रास्ते हैं — भू-नक्शा पोर्टल और राष्ट्रीय सूचना विज्ञान केंद्र (NIC) का अपनाखाता ऐप। नक़्शा बताता है कि खसरा काग़ज़ पर कहाँ है, ज़मीन पर उसकी सीमा नहीं। राज्य का पोर्टल ख़ुद कहता है कि ऑनलाइन जानकारी केवल सामान्य जानकारी के लिए है और किसी न्यायालय या कार्यालय में प्रमाणित प्रति नहीं मानी जा सकती। विवाद हो तो राजस्व कार्यालय से सीमाज्ञान (नाप-जोख) कराएँ।

Our Bhu-Naksha guide explains the portal’s dropdowns and how to read a village map. This page is about the next question: you have the map — now where are you standing, and what can the map prove?

Two official routes

1 · The Bhu-Naksha portal.

1. Type the address yourself: bhunaksha.rajasthan.gov.in. The site is titled “BhuNaksha, Rajasthan” and says it is designed and developed by the National Informatics Centre.
2. Open Viewmap, and choose the district and the rest of the location down to your village.
3. Find the khasra by its number, or tap it on the village map, and open its details.
4. Note the khasras on every side. You will need them on the ground.

2 · The ApnaKhata app. The Revenue Board’s Apna Khata portal also links to Bhu-Naksha from its menu. Its Android app, on Google Play, is published by the National Informatics Centre. The listing, updated on 24 September 2026, describes it as “the official digital platform for Rajasthan’s Land Record Management” and lists, among its features:

• khata-, khasra- and name-wise nakal of the jamabandi;
• “Integrated Maps: View Jamabandi records alongside land maps (Bhunaksha)”;
• online mutation applications, with tracking;
• seemagyan (demarcation) applications “through a fully digital workflow”;
• e-signed mutation copies (P21).

Before you install it, check three things on the listing: the developer reads National Informatics Centre, the support website is apnakhata.rajasthan.gov.in, and the name is ApnaKhata. Unofficial apps with names like these are on the store too. In the app, find your record by khata, khasra or name, then open the map view the listing describes. We have not tested every screen, and menus change between versions.

Where am I standing?

A village map shows where a khasra is drawn. It does not tell you which field under your feet is that khasra. Close the gap in this order:

1. Start from something fixed. Find two or three features near your khasra that appear on the map and on the ground — a road, a canal or drain, a pond, a railway line, the edge of the village abadi.
2. Count fields from them. Walk from the fixed point and count field boundaries against the map. Check the neighbouring khasras the seller or the patwari names against the ones the map draws.
3. Walk the boundary. Use a GPS app to walk the edge or tap the corners, then compare the shape and the area with the map and with the jamabandi. How close a phone gets depends on how much sky it can see and on the receiver, as the US government’s GPS site puts it; under trees or beside buildings, expect it to wander.
4. Stop at a mismatch. If the shape, the area or a neighbour does not agree, do not pay or build on the strength of the map. Ask for a demarcation.

What the map can and cannot prove

The state is plain about its online records. The Apna Khata portal, which links to Bhu-Naksha, says the information it gives is for general information only — “प्रदत सूचना केवल सामान्य जानकारी हेतु है” — and cannot be used as a certified or authorised copy in any court or office; for a certified copy, apply at the designated kiosk. We could not open Bhu-Naksha’s own map viewer when we checked to read any notice on it, so treat a map screen the same way.

• It can show the khasra’s shape on the village map, its number and sub-number, and which khasras touch it.
• It cannot prove who owns the land — that is the jamabandi, and even that is a record, not a title (see what the Supreme Court says) — or where the boundary runs on the ground today.
• It is not a survey of your fence. When boundaries are disputed, the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956 sends the dispute to the Land Records Officer (section 128), who decides it in the manner of section 111 — looking first to the existing survey maps, and to possession where the maps are not enough, as the reproduction of the Act we read summarises it. Where there is no dispute but boundary marks are missing, the Tehsildar can act on an application (section 129).

The official answer to “where is my boundary?” is a demarcation by the revenue office — seemagyan (सीमाज्ञान), the process the ApnaKhata app now lists applications for. For a purchase, a partition or a dispute, ask for one, and be there when the measurement is done.

Why a map with owners’ names on it is a risk

Some third-party apps and sites put an owner’s name next to a parcel outline, or let you search a name and see the fields. We think that is a risk to the owner, whatever the source of the data. A name on an outline tells a stranger whose land it is, where it is, and often how large it is. That is the starting kit for impersonation and a fake sale — see land fraud red flags. The official portals show a record to someone who asks for it, one village at a time. Putting names on one map that anyone can scroll changes what the information can be used for.

If an app asks you to upload your jamabandi or naksha, read who will see it before you do.

What AgriZameen does, and does not do

• My naksha, private. In the AgriZameen GPS app’s Land Map, My naksha lets you lay your own copy of a naksha — a photo, or the first page of a PDF — on the satellite map by matching at least three points on the image to the same points on the map. Once four or more points are matched, the app shows the fit error in metres and calls a poor fit poor; with three it cannot be measured. Tap locate, and the map shows where your phone is against the lines you aligned; your location stays on your phone.
• Who sees it. Signed out, the copy stays on your phone. Signed in, it is kept in private storage in your account, and only you can see it — not the AgriZameen team. Delete it at any time. The app labels it: “Your own copy, aligned by you. Indicative only — not evidence of title, boundary or area.”
• The Rajasthan khasra map layer stays “coming soon”. It shows and fetches nothing until a written licence for the data exists. AgriZameen is applying for one. We give no date.
• No names, numbers or pins in public. Listings appear on our map as circles with a radius of about a kilometre (about 2 km across), around a centre rounded to roughly village level — never a khasra number, an owner’s name or an exact point. See how the Land Map works.

For the official map, use the state’s portal or app. For the record, see our Apna Khata guide. To have the papers for a parcel in the Phulera–Sambhar–Naraina–Rupangarh belt read before you pay, message us on WhatsApp +91 92502 13833.

Questions · अक्सर पूछे सवाल

Sources

1. ApnaKhata on Google Play, National Informatics Centre — listing read on 25 October 2026 (updated 24 September 2026): features, “Integrated Maps”, seemagyan, P21, support website.
2. BhuNaksha, Rajasthan — the portal’s home page and Viewmap link.
3. Apna Khata (E-Dharti), Revenue Board, Rajasthan — the notice that online information is for general information only and is not a certified copy; the link to Bhu-Naksha.
4. Vidhi Judicial — reproduction of Chapter VII of the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956 (sections 111, 128 and 129). It has typos; read the official text before relying on it.
5. GPS.gov, US government — what affects the accuracy a GPS user gets.
6. AgriZameen GPS app, Land Map — My naksha and the Rajasthan khasra map layer, as built; and our privacy policy, section 5.