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NEW HOPE
NEW DAWN SVAMITVA SCHEME
Digitisation of property

for development

wnership record of land and houses plays a big role in the development of community
and the country. When there is a record of property available, citizens gain confidence
Oand new avenues of investment are open. Loan is easily available from the bank on the
basis of record of property for self-employment. Social reformer and politician Nanaji Deshmukh
had said that when people of a village remain trapped in disputes, neither will they be able to
develop themselves nor the society. Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to give property
cards to every household in every village of the country under SVAMITVA Scheme by 2024
NEW BEGINNING NEW HOPE

l SVAMITVA Scheme launched in April 2020 would l Digitisation of property under
register every residential property by mapping it digitally SVAMITVA Yojna was launched
with the help of drone on April 24, 2020, on the occasion
l This will facilitate selling and buying of property. This of Panchayati Raj Diwas
will also help the family to prove ownership over the l The Scheme is being
property implemented across India in a
l The Government registration will help in ascertaining phased manner over a period
the cost of the property. Geo tagging of over one Lakh of four years (2020-2024) and
properties has already been done would eventually cover around
l Around one Lakh villages in the States of Uttar Pradesh, 6.62 Lakh villages of the country
Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand l The survey is being conducted
and Karnataka, and a few border villages of Punjab at a fast pace with a target of
and Rajasthan are being covered in the pilot phase providing 50 Lakh property cards
(2020-21) to land owners
l The scheme aims to provide the ‘record of rights’ to l This will eliminate middleman and
village household owners and issue property cards transferring property from one
l One can check property record under generation to other will be made
SVAMITVA Scheme and take printout. This easy
will also help in solving dispute of Waqf and l Digitisation of property and
other properties information related to it will be
l Governments and other local made available at e-Gramswaraj
bodies will be able to fix circle rate portal. Status of the property can
l It has enabled around one be checked there only
Lakh property holders to l Place of school, market and other
download their Property public utility in villages will be decided
Cards through phones on the basis of available land

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