The Permanent Committee for the Development of Rural and Panchayati Raj has indicated the slow progress of the Svamitva scheme, which verifies the legal ownership of rural residential land through precise mapping and issues owners to the owners.
The panel, which submitted its Parliament report, noted that achieving complete coverage by 2025 may face a delay, because 30,000 villages across Indian states and trade unions have to be investigated.
The Committee, headed by Saptagiri Sankar Ulala, a member of Lok Sabha of Odishy’s Kaput, urged the government to speed up drone surveys and issue property cards by providing targeted technical and logistics support to state.
Drone surveys were completed in nearly 318,000 villages compared to 346,000 villages.
The Central Government launched this program in April 2020 with the primary goal of providing records of ownership of real estate to rural households. The main focus of the system is to explore rural inhabited land using drones to prepare detailed maps with ownership data, which will then be digitized and integrated into official land records.
This step is expected to help the villagers access the loan and reduce land -related disputes.
According to the initial timeline established by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, countries and trade union areas were expected to complete drone surveys by March 2025 and preparing property cards until March 2026.
The panel also pointed out that in addition to slow implementation, the government provided by the government is not enough. “The Committee also noted that there were so many complications about the title of property in rural areas because of common or undisturbed families and common and community ownership of the Tribal Society land,” she said in the report.
“Given that legal steps are a state subject. These questions need to be thought out by the government to resolve them in systematic and legal framework. For this purpose, they must deploy adequately trained, technically and legally qualified persons, reasonable funds for its implementation,” he added.
The Committee recommended that a comprehensive timeline be set and published, while the relevant state government was consulted and regularly monitored its progress to ensure early completion.
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