Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Aadhar-like property cards for people living in rural areas under the SVAMITVA Scheme.
Under this initiative, every cardholder will get a unique identity number like Aadhar. This will enable 100,000 property owners to download property cards by means of an SMS link. This will enable villagers to use their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits. Besides giving more financial power to rural property owners, this scheme is also expected to resolve longstanding property disputes.
The cards will also be physically distributed by the respective State Governments.
This will be the first-ever large-scale project involving a lot of modern means of technology that will benefit millions of rural property owners.
The beneficiaries are from 763 villages across six states including Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Karnataka. These six states have already signed an MoU with Survey of India and the rural properties will be mapped via drone surveys.
The first phase of the scheme will be implemented in 2020-21 and will cover 1 lakh villages in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, and few border villages of Punjab and Rajasthan. The scheme will be expanded over a period of four years and by 2024 and will eventually cover 6.62 lakh villages.