The Ground unit

Factual Questions
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1 Ground = 2400 sq.feet
The unit “ground” seems to be very prevalent in Indian Real estate parlance. I don’t know about other countries. Every buyer and seller in the local daily use it, but I couldn’t find this unit among other unit definitions. Is there an authoritative website that gives the official definition for this unit?

Thanks

2

Whew…that’s a tough one. I looked and cannot find any “authoritative” definition of what a “ground” is. I don’t have my CRC handbook, and it’s possible it could be in there. I checked a few favourite sites of units conversions and did not see it. Although, from one of my favourite sites (http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictD.html), I did find out that:

…which is, of course, no help at all.

Then I mailed a friend who’s a civil engineer in Arkansas, who said he had not heard of it, but he speculated that it might have something to do with a situation with property maps on a 1:2400 scale. However, in thinking that through, it didn’t seem to work out when you were converting to area. However, he still thinks it’s related to map scale nonetheless. :dubious:

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Thank you for your efforts una persson. Hmmm… maybe the unit is just an informal (?) one. But most property site, only in India, allow the number of grounds to be entered in an AD when selling. There’s even online converters for this in Indiaproperty.com (for registered advertisers) and my city development authoity’s website uses it in tenders (http://www.cmdachennai.org/english/plots/com_ind.htm).

4

A friend forwarded a site that had “obsolete” Indian units, and did not see it listed as an area type. Here was one site I used which, although it does not help you, may have some other old units of interest in India.

http://unicon.netian.com/unitsys.html#india

I did quite a bit of Google searching and still could not find it. I’m sorry I was unable to help you better.

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Thanks for the link. You have amazing friends :slight_smile:
If I find out anything, I’ll post here.