Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Narendra Singh Tomar on April 27, 2020 issued a detailed guideline of the SVAMITVA Scheme. He also released a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) regarding the e-Gram Swaraj Yojana platform and mobile App, on this occasion.
About SVAMITVA Scheme
The scheme, launched on National Panchayati Raj Day (April 24, 2020) aims at providing people residing in Rural parts with the right to document their residential properties.
The scheme would help in streamlining planning and revenue collection in rural areas and ensuring clarity on property rights.
This would also help in resolving property related disputes and would also enable creation of better-quality Gram Panchayat Development Plans .
The pilot phase of the scheme will extend to six states namely Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand covering approximately one lakh villages.
