Swamitva Yojana is to generate ownership documents of a land in villages so that people can be empowered with the grant of these officially attested documents issued by the Indian government.

Swamitva Yojana or ownership scheme is a new launch by the Prime Minister of India-Narendra Modi. This is a great relief for those who do not have the documents officially, confirming the ownership of the land in villages including those who temporarily live abroad, as NRIs or PIOs. The whole mapping will be done with the help of the modern drone technology.

There are people who have their property in the rural regions, but no mapping till the date has kept millions of acres of land unregistered in India. As people with attested documents, as birth certificate can apply for passport or visa, the verified land documents will help them to get loan on property for earning bread & butter. So, this announcement on the Panchayati Raj Diwas is seemed as a revolution.

Here are a few highlights of this scheme:

• This scheme is introduced to scale from unregistered property to registered residential property in the rural areas, as the person who did not measured and attested land ownership documents due to no such facility till the date can now get it done using modern technology.
• The Panchayati Raj ministry of the Union government has piloted it to launch on April 24, 2020.
• This was compulsory to introduce as the villages have several acres of lands with no mapping & no ownership documents. There are many pieces of land owned by residents and non-residents in the villages that have not been measured for attestation of documents regarding the same.
• This scheme is aimed at removing disparity in the ownership of land I the villages. The government is going to settle property rights in the rural hinterlands, which will help in empowerment later.
• The drone technology will do the whole measurement of the residential land to create a non-disputable record.
• The Central Panchayati Raj Ministry, Survey of India, Panchayati Raj Department and Revenue departments of various states will closely work to enforce it as per scheme.
• The drones will sketch a blueprint of every property falling within the geographical boundaries of a village and demarcate them corresponding to the revenue area.
• The state will accurately measure the property via drone-mapping and distribute the property card. The card will recognize the land owner and hence, the revenue record department will easily carry out its processing.
• The legal registration of the property rights through an official document will assist land owners to get finance using their property as collateral.
• The Panchayat will maintain those records so that the associated taxes from the owners could be collected. The collected fund will be used for the building of rural infrastructure & facilities.
• The property registration will create an organized structure, including those having title disputes, to appreciate the market value of the properties.
• The accurate records will regulate the collection of taxes, infrastructural development, issuance of permits and thwarting attempts at property confiscating.

This is a praiseworthy step to give the owners of the property a sigh of relief. There several land mafia and corrupt people who confiscate the property of non-residents for being not there with the attested documents. This announcement has provided a golden opportunity to all for getting back to the root after retirement. Such people can live a happy life in the clean idyllic environment of the village.