Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that Madhya Pradesh is first in country in preparing the rights records under the Swamitva Yojana, being run to provide the villagers the ownership rights of their possessions by surveying the rural population in the State. So far, rights records of 1,615 villages of State have been completed under the scheme. The rights records of 100% villages of Harda district have been completed. The percentage of villages where rights records have been completed is 41.

 

Under the Best Practice by the Government of India, other states have also been suggested to adopt the process of implementation of Swamitva Yojana on the lines of Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh was visited by officers of other states to understand the process being adopted in Madhya Pradesh, while training was also given to them through video conferencing.

 

He instructed the departmental officers that after completing the survey work under the scheme, distribution of rights records to the rural Aabadi should be started. He was taking a review meeting of the Swamitva Yojana of the Revenue Department on Friday. The meeting was attended by Revenue Minister Govind Singh Rajput through video conference. Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains and Principal Secretary (Revenue) Manish Rastogi were present.

 

Villagers will get official document of right on property: Under the Swamitva Yojana, villagers will be given a Government document of right over their property in the form of an ownership card. Through this document, they will be able to buy and sell their property and get loans from banks easily.

 

25 September 2018 eligibility date: Under the scheme, by surveying the rural Aabadi by drone, the rights records of only those property holders would be prepared who were using that Abadi land on 25 September 2018 on the date of implementation of Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code (Amendment) or who were allotted the Abadi land plot after this date.