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SVAMITVA Rural Empowerment

Empowering Villagers

with Property Cards

Ownership of land and house plays a big role in the development of a
country. Armed with proper property papers, citizens can confidently

approach banks for loans against property; banks are more than willing to
extend credit to borrowers whose property papers are in order. This opens
up many avenues of self-employment and job creation

ocial reformer and politician Nanaji phones. This would be followed by physical
Deshmukh once said that as long as distribution of the Property Cards by the
Sthe people in villages remain mired in respective state governments.
web of property disputes, neither they nor the The Prime Minister said that the SVAMITVA
society will be able to develop themselves. Scheme will strengthen the Panchayati
On Nanaji’s birth anniversary on October 11, Raj system for which efforts are underway
2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched for the past six years. He also said that an
the physical distribution of Property Cards unprecedented level of development has
under the SVAMITVA Scheme. The Prime taken place in the villages in the past six years
Minister said, "He also believed the ownership which had not been witnessed in the nearly
will become a great medium to end many seven decades since the Independence.
disputes in our villages." The Prime Minister assured that the
In the pilot phase around one Lakh property Scheme will make village management easier
owners can download their Property Cards for the gram panchayats, on the lines of
through the SMS link delivered on their mobile municipalities and municipal corporations.

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