Survey of India - Addresses, Map Info, etc.

Since questions come up from time to time about maps published by the Survey of India and where to buy them, I am posting a list of addresses/tels of their Map Sales Offices around India:

Dehradun
Map Records and Issue Office
Hathibarkala Estate,
Dehradun 248001
(Entry from New Cantonment Road, off Rajpur Road)
Tel: 0135-2747051-58 extn. 373

Delhi
1st Floor, Janpath Barracks 'A',
Janpath,
New Delhi 110001
(Next to Old Cottage Industries Emporium, behind Tibetan Market shops)
Tel: 011-23322288

West Block, Wing 4,
R. K. Puram,
New Delhi 110066
(Near Bhikaiji Cama Place and Hyatt Hotel)
Tel: 011-26178605

Bengaluru/Bangalore
Sarjapur Road,
Koramangala, II Block,
Blr 560034
Tel: 080-25534482

Kolkata
15, Dr. M L King Sarani (Wood Street),
Kolkata 700016
Tel: 033-22872155

Hyderabad
SOI,
Uppal,
Hyderabad 500039
Tel: 040-27202059

Bhopal
Call and check address
Tel: 0755-2675728

Bhubaneshwar
Survey Bhavan,
P.O: R. R. Laboratory,
Bhubaneshwar 751013
Tel: 0674-2301418

Lucknow
B-2 Block, 2nd Floor,
PICUP Bhavan,
Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar,
Lucknow 226010
Tel: 0522-2720740

Chandigarh
SOI Complex,
Sector 32A, Dakshin Marg,
Chandigarh 160030
Tel: 0172-2607420

Jaipur
Great Arc Bhavan-I
Sector-10, Vidyadhar Nagar,
Jaipur
(Call and confirm address)
Tel: 0141-2236286

Tiruvanantapuram
C.G.O. Complex,
Punkulam,
P.O: Vellayani,
Tiruvanantapuram 695522
Tel: 0471-2481473

Shillong
Bonnie Brae Estate,
Shillong 793001
Tel: 0364-2224937

Pune
Phule Nagar,
Alandi Road, Yerwada
Pune 411006
Tel: 020-26694535

Guwahati
Call and check address
Tel: 0361-2261725/2231390


Office times: 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday. Closed on official/public holidays.


Notes: 1) All tel nos. have been verified from telecom directory sites (except Shillong - website does not open).
2) Where there are discrepancies with existing addresses, there is a note to check the address by phone.

Useful, dilliwala.

Thanks.

Folks, this thread is for any queries in connection with SOI maps, not just addresses.
So fire away, I'm sure someone will come up with the right info.

According to the survey of India's website, they seem to only want to sell maps to Indian nationals. Are these offices Survey of India offices? I'm looking for topo maps for trekking - or at least for finding good places to try it, but I have this feeling that my desire to get away from people and find a nice trail somewhere with no guides, no touts and a map that is reasonably accurate runs afoul of state secrets.

Is there a way of getting a hold of any of these maps legally?

Don't worry about what the website says, fact is anyone can buy the maps from any SOI office - so long as you don't take them out of India.
Plenty of foreigners buy their maps, and since you're a resident, you shudn't have any problems. Tell them exactly that if they ask why you want topo maps - to go trekking. I shud warn you that there are many 'restricted' maps in the border areas which they won't sell you, but that applies to private Indian citizens as well.

Thanks!

I'll give registering a try using my driver's licence as proof of ID and see if I can buy maps.

Hi,

Does anyone have a Mumbai Address

Thanks
Onetrek

If there were one, it wud have been listed already!

The office in Delhi on Janpath near the Tibetan market had been demolished when I went there a few weeks ago - it's now a vacant plot with no suggestion as to where it might have moved to. A shame as they were helpful and central in location.

Every year they put up their selling counter / stall
at Kolkata book fair , they were there this year too.

Cheers

Cap'n - you've revived this thread with the exact thought I had. We bought the complete set back in 1992 (it's a huge, heavy and very detailed set of documents) from the book fair held in Jaipur. Difficult to read (the maps roll up easily if not weighted down properly) but very informative if you know how to read 'em.

The Delhi Sales office of Survey of India has been shifted to:

Thanks - I've been there a couple of times. The least helpful, most obstructive, so called sales office I've ever been to. It's also tiny compared to the old place on Janpath. They took one look at me and said I had to go to their central office elsewhere as I was a foreigner and there was nothing they could sell me. Tried again a few months later with the same result, so gave up.