Under LARR, no Social Impact Assessment or preliminary notification can be meaningful without an accurate inventory of affected land. Survey establishes the baseline — parcel boundaries, ownership, tenancy, trees, structures, and encumbrances — that every later section depends on.
What happens during land survey?
Revenue and project teams walk the proposed alignment or project area and record each affected plot. In most states this is documented through Form 10 (or equivalent survey schedules), linked to khasra / khatauni / plot numbers from revenue records.
Field teams verify whether record-of-rights matches ground reality, note absentee owners, capture GPS coordinates for GIS mapping, photograph structures and trees, and flag overlapping claims or pending mutations.
Typical workflow
- Project boundary defined
Engineering or planning department shares the proposed acquisition corridor on map/KML.
- Village & parcel identification
Patwari / RI identifies villages, survey numbers, and landowners from revenue registers.
- Field inspection
Joint site visit — measurement, photos, tenant verification, asset listing.
- Form 10 compilation
Structured schedule of every parcel with owner details, area, land type, and remarks.
- Review & approval
Tehsildar / SDM validates completeness before SIA team is constituted.
Key outputs
- Form 10 / survey schedule (parcel-wise)
- GIS / KML overlay of affected plots
- Geo-tagged field photographs
- Tree, structure & asset inventory
Mobile survey & Form 10 on Bhuarjan
- Offline-capable field app for Patwari teams
- GPS-tagged photos and parcel mapping
- Auto-linked khasra, owner, and project records
- Digital approval chain from field to SDM