Bhubaneswar: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has sought personal intervention of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for the expeditious implementation of the PM SVAMITVA in Odisha.
In a letter to the Chief Minister, Pradhan said PM SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) aims to provide property rights to the residents of rural inhabited areas.
“As you are aware the survey of rural land and its record of rights in India are age-old. There also remain many inhabited villages in India including the state of Odisha, where survey of land has not been done yet. As a result, many owners of property in rural areas of the state do not have requisite legal documentation for their property,” said the Minister.
“Even after decades of Independence, true potential of villages, homes and landed property in rural areas has remained shackled and often led to uncertainty and mistrust between neighbours in absence of a proper documentation,” Pradhan added.
SVAMITVA was launched by Prime Minister on 24th April 2020 as a Central Sector Scheme to promote a socio-economically empowered and self-reliant rural India.
The Scheme will cover around 6.62 Lakh villages of the entire country during 2021-2025.
The pilot phase of the Scheme was implemented during 2020–2021 in the States of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and select villages of Punjab and Rajasthan.
