Table 2 - Department of Land Resources

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2.4.3 Existing System:
2.4.4 Survey and Settlement Department
Land revenue registers are available in all the States. This database has the soil data as
collected by the patwari in local terms. The electronic form of the same data is also
available in the database and is collected under the computerization of land records
project.
2.4.5 Disadvantages:
1.The soil data as available in the land records database is collected by using
conventional approaches. The data is collected by the Patwari and he is not a soil expert.
2. There is a clear cut gap between the data collected by the Patwari and the data
collected by different agencies in a scientific way.
3. The data as collected by the patwari is in more of land use and land revenue sense then
the soil composition and physical characteristics.
4. There is no scientific correlation between the soil nomenclature as followed by the
patwari and the soil code made by the various national level agencies.
Soil type is captured in the Land Records Database in the states of Andaman and
Nicobar, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh,
Karnataka, Sikkim and Puducherry. There are about 998 different soil types in states like
Rajasthan wherein they could be accommodated as sub-category in nine major categories
of soil types in that State. Hence, after a detailed study of the soil codes in practice in the
states, it was found that the digital code for storing soil type was five digits as 00000. The
extreme left two digits would indicate the major category of soil such as Black Cotton,
Alluvial, Wasteland, Hilly, Rocky, Sandy, Loamy, Silt, Clay, Red, Stony, Mixed, Garden
and Others. The remaining three digits would indicate the soil sub-category. The digital
codes for soil types in Land Records is given in Table 2.4.1-Codes for Soil types in Land
Records.
Table 2.4.1- Codes for Soil types in Land Records
Soil Code Soil Name
01000 Chaahi/Kaali (Black Cotton/Black)
01001 Chaahi Nahari
01002 Chaahi Mustar
01003 Chaahi Baraani
01004 Chaahi Aabi
01005 Chaahi Safeda
01006 Kaali I
01007 Kaali II
01008 Kaali A
01009 Kaali B
01010 Kaali C
01011 Kaali D
02000 Nahari (Alluvial)
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