Background
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on April 24, 2021 launched the SVAMITVA scheme for the entire country.
- He also launched the distribution of e-property cards under the SWAMITVA scheme on National Panchayati Raj Day (24th April) through video conferencing.
- Under the scheme drone technology has been used for the first time to map actual property area of land owners.
SVAMITVA scheme
- The SVAMITVA, Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas Scheme was launched by Prime Minister in April 2020 on a pilot basis in in the States of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and select villages of Punjab and Rajasthan. The Scheme has now been extended to cover around 6 lakh 62 thousand villages of the entire country.
- The Prime Minister noted the impact of Swamitva Yojna in the 6 states where it was launched within just one year. Under the scheme, the entire village properties are surveyed by drone and property card are distributed to the owners. Today 4.09 lakh people were given such e- property cards in more than 5 thousand villages.
