Mero Kitta number check online
A kitta number is the parcel's name in the survey record. Here is where to find it, what Mero Kitta will actually check, and how to confirm the area once you have the sheet.
"Mero kitta number check online" is one of the most-typed land searches in Nepal, and most of the pages that answer it oversell. You cannot type a name into the official portal and browse every parcel in the country. What you can do is identify your own kitta, request the official sheet through Mero Kitta, and then measure or convert the area so the number on the paper matches the shape on the map.
This post is the honest version: what a kitta number is, where it is already written, how the Mero Kitta portal uses it, and how Naapi Plotter turns the sheet into square feet, Ropani and Bigha so you can check a listing or a family split before anyone visits a survey office.
What a kitta number actually is
A kitta (कित्ता) is one parcel in the survey record. The kitta number is that parcel's identifier on a given map sheet, in a given ward, in a given local unit, in a given district. Quote it at the land-revenue office and at the survey office. Neighbouring parcels have their own numbers, which is why a naksa looks like a patchwork of numbered shapes rather than a street map.
The number is not unique across Nepal on its own. Kitta 142 in one ward is not kitta 142 in the next. A complete reference is district + local unit (or the older VDC) + ward + map sheet (नक्सा नं.) + kitta number (कित्ता नं.). Leave any of those off and you are pointing at the wrong piece of land.
| Part | Nepali | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| District | जिल्ला | Lalpurja, Mero Kitta form |
| Local unit | गा.पा. / न.पा. (older: गा.वि.स.) | Lalpurja, application form |
| Ward | वडा नं. | Lalpurja, application form |
| Map sheet | नक्सा नं. | Naksa title block, plot register |
| Kitta number | कित्ता नं. | Lalpurja, naksa, plot register, field book |
Where to find your kitta number before you go online
Most people who search for a kitta-number check already have the number and do not realise it. Look here first:
- The lalpurja (land-ownership certificate). The kitta number is printed with the district, ward and area.
- An older printed naksa. Every closed shape on the sheet is labelled with its kitta number.
- A previous plot-register or field-book extract from the survey office.
- A sale deed, bank valuation or municipal building-permit file — they quote the same five-part reference.
- A family member who kept the last transfer papers.
If the number is on the lalpurja and you only want to see it in square feet or Ropani, you do not need Mero Kitta at all. Open the land unit converter or the Ropani-Aana-Paisa-Dam calculator and type the chain. That is a conversion, not a check of the shape.
What Mero Kitta will check — and what it will not
The official Mero Kitta website and the official Android app let you apply for a map print, a plot-register print or a field-book print on a parcel you can already identify. The application form itself asks for the local unit, ward, map number and kitta number. In other words: Mero Kitta is how you retrieve the official drawing for a kitta you already know, not how you discover a kitta you have never seen.
There is no public "type a name, see a map" search on the citizen portal. Sites that advertise an open kitta-number lookup for any address in Nepal are not the Survey Department. Do not upload a citizenship scan to them.
If you do not know the kitta number, Mero Kitta cannot invent it. Take the lalpurja to the land-revenue office (Malpot) or the local survey office. They can look it up in the register. A neighbour's sheet will show adjoining kitta numbers, which is often enough to identify yours on the same map.
How to request the record once you have the number
Open mero kitta online or the official app.
Choose the survey office and the local unit for that parcel.
Pick the service. Plot-register print is the cleanest confirmation of the kitta number and the recorded area. Map print is what you want if you also plan to measure the shape. Field-book print is for the original survey notes.
Enter citizenship details and attach scans of the citizenship certificate and the lalpurja.
Fill in the map number and kitta number exactly as they appear on the paper. A transposed digit requests the wrong parcel.
Use a mobile number you control. The OTP is your login for status and for the seven-day download window.
Pay the fee when the SMS arrives, then download the PDF the day it is ready.
Status is at merokitta.dos.gov.np/status. That page, with mobile number and OTP, is the citizen "login". The longer portal guide is Mero Kitta Nepal: official website, app and login.
How to verify the area once you have the sheet
A kitta-number check is only half the job. The other half is: does the shape on the naksa agree with the area on the lalpurja, and with the area the seller is quoting? There are three honest ways to answer that, and they are the same three in the land-area guide.
1. Convert the number on the lalpurja
The legal area is already written on the certificate, usually in the traditional unit for the district — Ropani-Aana-Paisa-Dam in the hills, Bigha-Katha-Dhur in the Terai. Convert it so you can compare it with a listing in square feet or square metres.
| System | Chain | Base |
|---|---|---|
| Hill | Ropani, Aana, Paisa, Dam | 1 Ropani = 5,476 sq ft |
| Terai | Bigha, Katha, Dhur | 1 Bigha = 72,900 sq ft |
One Bigha is about 13.31 Ropani. One Ropani is about 1.50 Katha. Neither is a whole number, which is why mental arithmetic on a listing is how people overpay. Use the converters rather than guessing.
2. Measure the kitta on the Mero Kitta naksha
If you have the map-print PDF, the shape is sitting there. Open Naapi Plotter, load the PDF, calibrate one known length, and tap around your kitta. The area updates live, each edge is labelled, and the result is written in every unit at once. The step-by-step is in Mero Kitta naksha and map.
This is the check that catches a listing quoted as "4 Aana" when the outline is closer to 3, or a family split where two brothers have been adding the same leftover strip. It is planning-grade, not a legal survey. A few percent off the lalpurja is normal on a careful trace. A factor of two means the wrong kitta, the wrong scale, or a photocopy that was resized.
3. Measure on the ground with a tape
No usable drawing? Switch the tool to By lengths. Sketch the plot roughly — the sketch needs no scale — press Auto-connect & triangulate, and type every side plus the diagonals from a base corner. The area comes from Heron's formula on those triangles, and the tool then rebuilds the true outline from the lengths you typed so the drawing matches the numbers.
Several kittas, one family, one total
A lot of "what is our kitta number" questions are really "how much land do we actually have". Real sheets carry more than one parcel. In Naapi Plotter you trace each kitta as its own plot against a single calibration, name them, colour them, and read both the individual areas and the combined total. Hide a plot with its eye toggle while you work on the next one. Save the lot as a project in the browser so tomorrow's argument starts from the same drawing.
The CAD measure tool is useful here too. Tap two points — a shared boundary, the road frontage, the distance from a house corner to the kitta line — and you get a dimension with a bearing, independent of the area. Placing a dimension cannot add a corner or nudge the calibration, so measuring a dispute line never quietly changes anyone's total.
Pricing the kitta you just checked
Once the area is on screen, the same result dialog will price the plot. Type the rate the way the seller said it — per Aana, per Ropani, per Katha, per square foot, or as "52 lakh" / "1.25 crore" — and the total appears underneath. Type an asking price instead and it reads back as the implied rate. If the money in the deal is not rupees, switch the reading to USD, AUD, GBP, EUR, INR and the rest; the rate is fetched live and labelled as offline if the network is down.
That is the practical end of a kitta-number check: you know which parcel it is, you know what the sheet says, you know what the outline measures, and you know what the asking rate implies. The legal transfer still goes through Malpot and a surveyor. The browser work is everything that happens before that visit.
If the numbers disagree
- Lalpurja and converter agree, trace is a few percent off — usual. Recheck the calibration against a printed dimension, then decide whether the difference matters for planning.
- Trace is a clean factor of ten or of the drawing scale — you mixed up a paper (ruler) length with a ground length. Calibrate again and say which kind of length you typed.
- Trace matches a neighbouring kitta better than yours — you traced the wrong shape. Kitta numbers sit inside the parcel; zoom in and read them before you tap.
- Nothing matches and the photo was taken at an angle — stop. A tilt stretches one side of the sheet. Photograph it flat, or use the Mero Kitta PDF, which has no camera distortion.
- You need the number for a sale, a loan or a court — stop using a browser. Take the papers to the survey office.
