Local Land Measurement Unit Conversion in India: Kanal to Bigha

Speaking about land measurement units, we must know that these units are broadly classified into two groups – Globally used units and locally used units. India and some of the South Asian countries use local land measurement units conversion in India: Kanal to Bigha

Before knowing about the land measurement units, you must know how to measure land. For measuring a land look if it has got a regular geometric pattern or not. For regular patterns like squares, rectangles, triangles, etc, there are mathematical formulas to find the area. But if the lands are irregular in shape then divide the total land area into separate regular patterned plots and find the area individually. Lastly, add them up to find the total area of the land.

Now let us talk about the local land measurement units. Firstly we will look into local land measurement unit conversion in India: Kanal to Bigha, and then to other units.

Kanal

Kanal was traditionally used officially to measure lands during British Rule. Later it lost its importance after the acceptance of standard land measurement units especially in the urban areas of Northern India.

It is commonly used in Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir. 1 Kanal is equivalent to

• 857 Square Meter
• 605 Square Yards
• 5445 Square Feet
• 0506 Hectares
• 125 Acres

Bigha

Bigha is a local land measurement unit used in the northern and western states of India. It is generally used in measuring agricultural plots of land. If you consider standard units, then these lands must be measured in terms of Hectares and Acres. So, one may need to convert Hectares to Bigha or Acres to Bigha. Hectare is a legal unit and whenever you are recording an agricultural land it must be measured in terms of Hectare.

In India, under the Real Estate Regulatory Authority Act, the land is mandatory to be measured in terms of Square Feet. But some local governments allow Square Yards and Square Meter as the land measurement units.

• 1 square yard means a plot of land with boundary walls each of 1 yard.
• 1 square meter means a plot of land with boundary walls of 1 meter each.
• 1 Square foot means a plot of land with 1 feet boundary wall on each side.

Need to know local land measurement unit conversion in India: Kanal to Bigha while dealing with a local broker if required. Finding Square Meter to Bigha, Square Yards to Bigha, or Square Feet to Bigha may be difficult as the value of Bigha is not the same for the entire country.

Biswa and Kattha are the subunits of Bigha and don’t have a standard value. If you are converting 1 Biswa to Bigha then you must know there can be 5 to 200 Biswa in 1 Bigha.

A few other land measurement units used in India

• In southern India, Bigha is not used. Instead, the common land measurement units here are Ground, Guntha, Ankanam, and Cent. If a south Indian is selling a property to a north Indian broker he may need to convert Ground to Bigha or Guntha to Bigha and so on.
• In northern and western states of India, besides Bigha, Kanal and Biswa, as the common units of measurements there are some other commonly used units in existence as well. These are Ghumao, Sarsai, Marla, Killa, and Gaj.
• The commonly used units of measurements in the Eastern states of India are the Dhur, Decimal, Lecha, Kattha, and Chatak.

Convert Kanal to Bigha

Converting Kanal to Bigha manually is a hard task. The reason is, Bigha has different values in different regions. In General, 1 Kanal is equivalent to 0.5 Bigha. Now if you are having 50 Kanal land and you want to convert it into Bigha, then multiply 50 with 0.5. The result is 25 Bigha.

Now, you may ask why I said measuring in terms of bigha is difficult. Look into the variation of values in terms of square yards. 1 Pucca Bigha in parts of Bihar, UP, Punjab, and Haryana 3025 square yards whereas in other parts 1 Kachcha Bigha is equivalent to 1008.33 Square Yards. Again in parts of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, 1 Bigha is equivalent to 968 Square Yards.

Looking at this deviation anyone can be confused regarding its calculations. So, to solve this problem, you can use an online area convertor. Here, you can select the region where you want to find the value of the land area. Then you need to enter the total area of land and the unit of its measurement. Then select the unit you want to convert into. The appropriate result will be displayed in a few seconds. This is time-saving and an easy way to find the land area.

So next time when you are looking for a land area conversion, use an online tool. Manual calculations are hectic and a little distraction may need to start the calculation all over again or get an unreliable result.

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