Organization Structure

The present Survey & Land Records Department was formed by integrating the Staff allotted from formerly Madras State, Cochin State and Travancore State, under a Director of Survey & Land Records from 1.11.1956. On 31.1.1977, the post of Director of Survey & Land Records was converted in to IAS Cadre and then Director was posted as Additional Director. The department consists of three wings namely the field wing consisting of surveyors and head surveyors mainly, the office wing consisting of draftsman and head drafts man and an administrative wing. The manpower ratio in the two wings is 2:1. The administrative staff is deployed from the revenue department and headed by a Deputy Collector, designated as Assistant Secretary. The Director is assisted by the Additional Director and Dy.Directors at the head quarters and two regional Joint Directors and 12 field wing deputy Directors at the Directorate. The resurvey operations are carried out by the Asst.Directors of every district. The Superintendents of Survey & Land Records at the District Establishment looks after land records maintenance (LPM) and the SSLRs at other offices looks after resurvey.

STRUCTURE OF SURVEY & LAND RECORDS DEPARTMENT

 

STRUCTURE OF SURVEY DIRECTORATE


The strength of the technical staff

Sl.No DESIGNATION TOTAL STRENGTH PERMANENT TEMPORARY
1 DIRECTOR 1 1
2 ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR 1 1
3 JOINT DIRECTOR 2 2
4 DEPUTY DIRECTOR(FIELD) 12 12
5 DEPUTY DIRECTOR(OFFICE) 3 3
6 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR(FIELD) 16 3 13
7 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR(OFFICE) 4 1 3
8 SURVEY SUPERINTENDENT 65 16 49
9 TECHNICAL ASSISTANT 19 19
10 HEAD SURVEYOR 279 12 267
11 HEAD DRAFTSMAN 138 7 131
12 SURVEYOR 1678 417 1261
13 DRAFTSMAN 830 192 638
14 TRACER 19 19
15 BINDER 42 7 35
16 CUTTER 1 1
17 DRIVER 19 1 18
18 PHOTOGRAPHER 1 1
19 BLUE PRINTER 1 1
20 CHAIN MAN 40 40
21 PRESSMAN 3 3
22 PRINTER 3 3
23 PRINTING EXPERT 1 1
24 HELIOZINCOGRAPHER 1 1
25 ASSISTANT SECRETARY 1 1
26 FINANCE OFFICER 1 1
27 SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT 2 2
28 JUNIOR SUPERINTENDENT/MANAGER 20 3 17
29 CONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANT 4 2 2
30 FAIR COPY SUPERINTENDENT 1 1
31 HEAD CLERK 29 1 28
32 SENIOR/JUNIOR CLERK 236 34 202
33 TYPIST(LD/UD/SENIOR GRADE/SELECTION GRADE) 69 7 62
34 ATTENDER 45 9 36
35 OFFICE ATTENDANT 216 21 195
36 NIGHT GUARD 1 1
TOTAL 3804 805 2999