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A shujra or shujrah is a detailed village map that is used for legal (land ownership) and administrative purposes in India and Pakistan. A shujra maps out the village lands into land parcels and gives each parcel a unique number. [1] [2] The patwari (or village accountant) maintains a record for each one of these parcels in documents called ...
It is often used in conjunction with a shajra (or shajra kishtwar), which is a family tree of owner ;used for reference map of the village that administers the land described by the khasra girdawari. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Khasras traditionally detail " all the fields and their areas, measurement, who owns and what cultivators he employs, what crops, what ...
The village was founded by the Sikh preacher Baba Sahib Singh Bedi during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. After the partition of India , Pakistan built the Bambawali-Ravi-Bedian Canal (BRB Canal), bringing waters from the Chenab River to the Upper Bari Doab Canal , as a replacement for the canal waters lost to the Indian Punjab .
Chak 203 GB Ferozpur is the biggest village of the tehsil by area and population. All villages of the tehsil carry GB with their Chak numbers, and the name of village usually follows it for example, Chak 141 GB and Chak 228 GB. The village numbers are designated by the water pump number the village is built upon.
Today it has become mostly synonymous with the gram or village. Most voter lists, for example, now use the names of villages rather than mouzas. [2] In contemporary Pakistan, a mouza is defined as "a territorial unit with a separate name, definite boundaries, and area precisely measured and divided into plots/khasras/survey numbers."
Charsadda District (Pashto: چارسدې ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع چارسدہ) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Prior to its establishment as a separate district in 1998, it was a tehsil within the Peshawar District . [ 2 ]
Saidpur (Urdu: سیدپور) is a village and union council (UC-1) [2] located in a ravine in Pakistan in the Margalla Hills, near the Daman-e-Koh overlook, in the Islamabad Capital Territory. It is a Mughal Era village that has a wide spectrum of religious and cultural heritage. It serves as a tourist spot for locals as well as foreigners.
Union councils are the primary governmental institution in Pakistan. They are often known as "village councils" in rural areas. The territory represented by a village council usually comprises a large village and surrounding areas, often including nearby small villages. The term "union council" may be used for localities that are part of cities.