Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch on Sunday the physical distribution of property cards under the SVAMITVA (Village Survey and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) scheme that allows rural masses to use property as a financial asset, the Office said from the Prime Minister in a statement on Friday.
The launch event will begin at 11am on Sunday, where PM Modi will also interact with some of the beneficiaries. Union Minister for Panchayati Raj Narendra Singh Tomar will also join the program. The property cards that are being implemented under the SVAMITVA scheme launched by the Prime Minister in April are physical copies of the title deeds of the villagers’ houses and the surrounding areas they own (as opposed to cultivated land), which are 132,000 landowners will be delivered during the event.
After the launch, state governments will physically distribute the cards to people in more than 750 villages in six states. “The landmark move to transform rural India” will allow some 100,000 homeowners to download their property cards via an SMS link delivered to their mobile phones.
According to the PMO, the beneficiaries are from 763 villages, including 346 from Uttar Pradesh, 221 from Haryana, 100 from Maharashtra, 44 from Madhya Pradesh, 50 from Uttarakhand and 2 from Karnataka.
Beneficiaries in all states except Maharashtra will receive the physical copies of the property cards within one day and since the western state has a system to recover the nominal cost of these cards, it will take a month, he added.
The SVAMITVA scheme will cover 662,000 villages in a staggered manner over a four-year period and the measure will pave the way for villagers to use the property as a financial asset to obtain loans and other financial benefits, the statement said. The PMO also praised the exercise as the first large-scale exercise, involving the most modern means of technology, that will benefit millions of rural owners.
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