SVAMITVA Scheme

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• India plans to prepare digital maps of all its 6, 00,000 villages and pan-India 3D maps will be prepared for 100 cities, Union Science Minister said recently.

SVAMITVA scheme

• Ministry: SVAMITVA (Survey of villages and mapping with improvised technology in village areas) scheme is a new initiative of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
• Aim: It aims to provide rural people with the right to document their residential properties so that they can use their property for economic purposes.
• Survey: The scheme is for surveying the land parcels in rural inhabited areas using Drone technology.
  • The survey shall be done across the country in a phase wise manner over the period 2020 -2025.
• Funding: The scheme is proposed as a Central Sector scheme.
• Coverage: There are about 6.62 lakh villages in the country which will be eventually covered in this scheme. The entire work is likely to be spread over a period of five years.

Objectives of the scheme

• To bring financial stability to the citizens in rural India by enabling them to use their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits.
• Creation of accurate land records for rural planning.
• Determination of property tax, which would accrue to the GPs directly in States where it is devolved or else, add to the State exchequer.
• Creation of survey infrastructure and GIS maps that can be leveraged by any department for their use.
• To support the preparation of a better-quality Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) by making use of GIS maps.
• To reduce property related disputes and legal cases.

Source: TH