‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [‎251v] (50/192)

Chapter II.
ADMINISTRATION
OF THE LAND.
Southern Division.
BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
^ 9l 9-1920
years must elapse before we can accomplish much irrm™.
personnel and work of this staff. ™proveme nt m the
3. At the beginning of the year the strength of the field
surveyors, 4 learners and 1 clerk. Most of them were placed on Ba'ri V ’ ils ^
on hissa survey, 12 on city survey, 5 on survey of Biwalkar Jaghir i^p* 5 ’ 12
5 on hissa survey work in Konkan and then on survey of village f
State in Ratnagiri and 2 on measurement work in Dharwar distri t n V ^ a
the rainy season 3 surveyors were sent to Belgaum, 4 to Dharwar ° ' l
Kanara to clear oh arrears in the district survey offices. Four surv 0116 ^
sent to Gadag city survey office for clearing arrears. During the fairT 18 ^
field party surveyors measured 1,763 new hissas and disposed of 195 co ^
ences of ordinary measurement work in Belgaum and one surveyor ^l 011 ^
temporary measurer measured 689 new hissas in 2 months. Two $ ° ne
disposed of 93 measurement correspondences in Dharwar. On compH'^ 018
p6t hissa survey in the Karnatic two parties of 14 men were put frornTf?
March 1920 on survey of inam villages in the Bijapur district. The villages f
Tignibidri, Chondi and Hallur were completely measured by plane table A basic surveying technique using an alidade attached to a horizontally mounted drawing board.  base]
on minor triangulation A surveying technique in which the position of a network of points is determined by creating a series of triangles between them and measuring at least two of the internal angles and one side length. , and classed also as settlement is to be introduced i
them. Nagarhalli, Khad and Honganhalli were also completely measured
in the same way and Mutat and Karjol were measured according to partial
system as the old survey in these two villages was found serviceable. Karjol
has been half done. Eighteen thousand three hundred and twelve acres in
1,295 survey numbers with 762 hissas were measured and 476 triangulated
pillar stations were made. The expenditure on these 8 villages and
classification of the first three was Rs. 4,216, i.e., annas 3f per acre or
Rs. 3^ per survey number. A large portion of the expenditure is to be
recovered as pot hissa fees and charges for boundary marks and labour,
The minor triangulation A surveying technique in which the position of a network of points is determined by creating a series of triangles between them and measuring at least two of the internal angles and one side length. system was quite new to the surveyors and so the
progress was slow. Still the expenditure is creditably low. Three surveyors
under one head surveyor started the survey of Here Jaghir villages in
Belgaum from 20th April 1920. By the middle of May four temporary
measurers were added for plane table A basic surveying technique using an alidade attached to a horizontally mounted drawing board.  work. Traverse work was finished
in Kurtanwadi, Naganwadi, Jattewadi and Narewadi. The first village
was completely measured by plane table A basic surveying technique using an alidade attached to a horizontally mounted drawing board.  and the second and third partly. Two
hundred and eighty-five pillar stations were made and 101 survey numbers with
674 hissas measured. A party of 8 surveyors and one head surveyor took up
the survey of Bavda Jaghir villages in Ratnagiri from 1st December 1919.
Traverse work was finished is Savda, Math, Talavde and Mur. Measurement
by plane table A basic surveying technique using an alidade attached to a horizontally mounted drawing board.  was completed in the first three villages and Math was com
pletely classified. One thousand and-twenty two pillar stations were made and
1,809 hissas measured. The survey of Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Biwalkar’s Jaghir in Panvel which
lapsed to Grovernment was started by seven surveyors and one head surveyor
from 1st December 1919 and closed by the middle of April pending decision of
the Government of India on the memorial of the Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. for restoration of the
Jaghir. Measurement and classification of 3 villages was completed and 366
survey numbers with 1,735 hissas were measured. Out of the 16 villages of the
Jaghir 12 have been completely measured and classed. The Superintendent of
Land Records inspected all the district survey offices of his division. All the
offices are reported to have worked satisfactorily. Special arrangements were
made to clear off arrears by deputing Special Measurer Circle Inspectors an
field party surveyors for correcting survey records, etc. They opened the year
with 1,023 correspondences in hand. Ten thousand three hundred an
fifty-one correspondences were received during the year, and
correspondences were disposed of, leaving a balance of 771 correspondences'
The correspondences in these offices are now being filed according to the • •
C. D. lists. The tab and pigeon-hole system is working very satisfac onj 1
The work of tallying abstracts of Village Form I with those of akarbancls
been finished for the whole division except in 25 villages.
4. During the year one field survey party was sent for work in t
Shahbandar taluka of the Karachi district. The area measured by this p
was 8,875 acres.
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