Guidelines for SVAMITVA scheme and SOP for e-Gram Swaraj

Government of India has issued guidelines regarding the SVAMITVA scheme, a new initiative of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj. He also released a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) regarding e-Gram Swaraj.

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Key-Points

The aim of the program is to provide rural people with the right to document their residential properties so that they can use their property for economic purposes.

SVAMITVA scheme is a collaborative effort of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Panchayati Raj Departments, State Revenue Departments and Survey of India.

The scheme aims to help in streamlining planning and revenue collection in rural areas and ensuring clarity on property rights. It will help in resolving property related disputes.

The scheme will enable the creation of better-quality Gram Panchayat Development Plans (GPDPs), leveraging the maps created under this program.

It also aims to provide an integrated property validation solution for rural India, engaging the latest Drone Surveying technology, for demarcating the inhabitant (Aabadi) land in rural areas.

The program is being implemented in six states namely Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Under this scheme, mapping of rural housing land can be done using the latest survey methods and drones.