Among the major steps taken by the Central Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi towards rural empowerment in the last 12 years, ‘Pradhanmantri Swamvitva Yojana’ has emerged as a ‘game changer’. For decades, due to lack of accurate documentation of residential properties in villages, villagers were deprived of legal rights and financial benefits of their own houses.
Today, through this scheme, not only the villagers are getting their real rights, but in this great campaign Gujarat Has also created a new history by becoming ‘number 1’ in the entire country. This achievement of the state is also special because Gujarat alone has a share in more than half (more than 50%) of all the property cards made across the country in the second phase of the scheme.
National record made in ‘Svamitva Yojana’
Under the able leadership of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Gujarat has presented a ‘role model’ in front of the entire country by giving unprecedented momentum to the ‘Pradhanmantri Swamtva Yojana’. By accurately mapping rural properties with state-of-the-art drone technology, the state government has so far prepared statutory ‘property cards’ of more than 18.50 lakh rural properties.
Gujarat, which will join the second phase of this scheme in the year 2021-22, has today reached the first position at the national level on the basis of its excellent management. If we look at the figures, in this phase drone flights took place in 58,197 villages across the country and a total of 32,35,260 property cards were made. Of these, Gujarat alone has generated the maximum number of 18,50,614 cards in the country by conducting drone flights in 14,900 villages and certification of 11,511 villages.
The system became transparent with 4,900 drone flights
There has been excellent coordination between the Survey of India Department, Gujarat Revenue Department and Gujarat Panchayati Raj Department to make this mega campaign successful. Drone survey and GIS based mapping have made village planning completely transparent. In this process, at the district level, Mehsana (1,66,504 cards) and Ahmedabad (1,53,125 cards) are at the forefront. Apart from this, more than 1 lakh cards each have been prepared in Kheda, Banaskantha and Anand. With the issuance of cards after transparent verification, land disputes and court cases that have been going on for generations have almost ended.
Loan facility up to ₹ 50 lakh available on property card
This scheme has transformed rural properties into a ‘financial asset’. After getting legal recognition, now citizens are easily availing loan facilities from banks using their property cards. In Gujarat, big bank loans up to ₹ 50 lakh have also been approved on the basis of this card.
This has created new opportunities for business, education and livelihood in the villages, which has played a ‘gamechanger’ role in economically empowering women and deprived sections. To take the scheme to the masses, more than 14,000 gram sabhas have been organized across the state, which is realizing the vision of ‘Digital and Self-reliant Rural India’.
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