Village Map & Gat Number Maharashtra 2026 | Bhunaksha Guide

Nearly every confusion about Maharashtra land records starts here. The survey number is the original revenue numbering of a parcel. The gat number is the number a parcel carries after land consolidation or gaothan renumbering - gat for 'group', because scattered holdings were consolidated into one block and renumbered. That is why the same field is routinely known by an old gat number and a new gat number, and why the two get used interchangeably by people who live there and not at all interchangeably by the offices that process your papers. If you are filing anything - a zone certificate, a part plan, a mutation - you need to know which number the system expects, and the usual answer is the old full number.

Maharashtra runs a dedicated land map service, commonly called Bhunaksha, which publishes village maps with parcel boundaries. It sits alongside the revenue record service that publishes the 7/12 and the jurisdiction service that resolves district, taluka and village. The map service is free, needs no login, and is the fastest way to see the shape and position of a parcel and its neighbours. It is a revenue map, which is the single most important thing to understand about it - see section 7.

Open the Maharashtra land map service and select the district, then the taluka, then the village. The village map loads as a parcel mosaic. Then locate your parcel: either search by the survey or gat number, or zoom and click the parcel directly. The parcel is highlighted and labelled with its number. If you cannot find your number, the usual cause is that you are searching the new gat number in a village that is indexed under the old one - try the old number before concluding the parcel is missing.

The map shows the parcel boundary, the parcel identity and the surrounding parcels. You will see the revenue number on the parcel, and you will encounter the parcel's ULPIN - the 14-digit Unique Land Parcel Identification Number that is computed from the parcel's coordinates. The distinction matters: the survey or gat number is a record number that can change with consolidation, while the ULPIN is tied to where the parcel actually is and survives renumbering. If you want to understand the identifier itself, the ULPIN and Bhu-Aadhaar guide covers what PNIU and PNIL mean behind it.

Four causes, in order of how often we see them. One: the 7/12 quotes a old gat number and the map is indexed under the new one, or the reverse. Two: the parcel has been subdivided, so what is one entry in the record is two or more hissa parcels on the ground, or the reverse where parcels have been amalgamated. Three: a re-survey has moved boundaries since the record was last written. Four: a straight data-entry error in one of the two systems. The first is the most common by a wide margin and the easiest to resolve, because the answer is simply that you were quoting the wrong generation of the number.

The map service allows you to view the village map for a village without an account, and to save or print the sheet you are looking at. Treat the printout as a working document rather than a certified one - it is excellent for orientation, for conversations with your talathi, and for checking that the parcel you are being shown is the parcel in the papers. It is not a substitute for a certified extract or for an on-ground survey when boundaries are actually in dispute.

This is the section to read twice, because the map is persuasive and people over-trust it. The village map is a revenue map, not a title plan. It does not prove ownership - ownership is in the 7/12 and the 8A, not in the drawing. It does not give you buildable dimensions: the geometry is indicative and is not a licensed survey, so you cannot set out a foundation from it. It does not show every legal interest - easements, rights of way and encumbrances live in the record, not the drawing. And it does not settle a boundary dispute, because a boundary dispute is an on-ground question and the map is a representation. What it does do is let you confirm you are looking at the right parcel, which is a bigger deal than it sounds.