Mero Kitta & NeLIS: View and Print Your Land Map (Naksa) and Field Book Online

Mero Kitta is an online platform run by the Department of Survey (Napi Bibhag) under Nepal's Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation that lets citizens obtain land-survey services without visiting a survey office in person. It is accessed at merokitta.dos.gov.np and is paired with a mobile app.

NeLIS, the Nepal Land Information System, is the central database behind it. NeLIS stores survey and plot (kitta) data uploaded from survey offices across the country, and government authorities use it to track service delivery and revenue collection. Mero Kitta is effectively the public-facing module of NeLIS: NeLIS is the back-end cadastral database, while Mero Kitta is the citizen interface that draws on that data.

The two systems were inaugurated together on 15 April 2021 by then Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, with the service first rolled out through Kathmandu Valley survey offices at Kalanki, Dillibazar and Bhaktapur, ahead of a planned expansion to all of the country's 126 survey offices.

Mero Kitta digitises the routine outputs that survey offices traditionally issued over the counter. Each request is tied to a specific survey office, local unit and plot number, and the finished document is delivered as a PDF you download yourself.

To use Mero Kitta you must be the registered landowner and provide clear, legible scanned digital copies of two documents. File-size limits are small, so scans should be compressed before upload.

Different official and news sources cite the limit as up to roughly 1 MB per document (the portal's own help text specifies 1 MB), so prepare readable scans within that size to avoid rejection.

Applications are processed on a first-come, first-served basis, and reporting at launch indicated officials are expected to address each application within about 15 days. The OTP issued at registration is important and should be kept safe, because it is used both to track status and to validate the final download.

The general flow is to apply, verify by OTP, pay the assessed fee or tax online, and then download the PDF within a limited window.

Mero Kitta lets you settle the applicable land-revenue or service charge electronically rather than paying in cash at a counter. After verification, the system communicates the amount due by SMS, and payment is made through digital channels such as Connect IPS or by bank voucher.

The finished document is supplied as a PDF that you download yourself; it is generally available for a limited period (about a week), after which you may need to re-request it. Keeping your registered mobile number active is essential because OTPs and status notifications are delivered by SMS.

Nepal's land administration is split between two main agencies and two main digital systems. The Department of Survey runs the cadastral side — surveying, maps, field books and plot records — through NeLIS and Mero Kitta. The Land Revenue Offices (Malpot offices), under the land-reform and management side of the ministry, run LRIMS, the Land Records Information Management System, which handles ownership records, deed (rajistresan) registration, transfers (namsari) and Lalpurja verification.

LRIMS was developed with Asian Development Bank funding and rolled out across all 126 Land Revenue Offices around 2021. To link parcels and owners across systems, Nepal introduced standard identifiers: a Parcel Identification Number (PIN) for each plot and a Land-ownership / Landowner Identification Number (LIN) for owners, which increasingly appear on the Lalpurja.

In practice, a Mero Kitta map or field-book print describes the physical parcel as surveyed, while LRIMS holds the legal ownership record verified at the Malpot office. Together they support cross-checking a property's boundaries, plot number and ownership when buying, selling, mortgaging or resolving disputes over land.