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The Standing Committee of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj has flagged the slow progress of the Svamitva scheme, which confirms the legal ownership of rural residential land through accurate mapping and issues property cards to the owners.
The panel, which has submitted its report to Parliament, said that receiving full coverage by 2025 may be delayed, as 30,000 villages have been surveyed in Indian states and center areas.
Under the chairmanship of Saptagiri Shankar Ulak, Lok Sabha member of Odisha’s Koraaput, the government, the government urged the government to accelerate the drone surveys and issue property cards by providing target technical and logical assistance to the states.
The drone survey in about 318,000 villages has been completed compared to the target of 346,000 villages.
The central government launched the scheme in April 2020 with the primary objective of providing property ownership records to rural families. The main focus of the plan is to survey the rural settled land using a drone to prepare a detailed map with ownership details, which will be digitized later and integrated into the official land records.
The move is expected to help the villagers reach credit and reduce the disputes related to land.
According to the initial timeline set up by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, states and center areas were expected to complete drone surveys by March 2025 and prepare for property cards by March 2026. However, the government informed the panel that despite the delay, the work in the remaining villages is likely to be completed by the end of 2025-26.
The panel also stated that apart from slow implementation, the funds provided by the government are not sufficient. “The committee also observed that in rural areas, joint or undivided families and tribal society have a lot of complications on the title of property due to joint or undivided families and general and community land ownership,” the report states.
“As legal action is a state subject. These issues require the government to solve them within a systematic and legal structure. For this purpose, they need to deploy adequately trained, technically and legally qualified persons, there is enough funds for the implementation of the same,” he said.
The committee recommended that a broader timeline be fixed and published on the state-wise, in which the concerned state government consulted, and its progress regularly monitored for timely completion.
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