SVAMITVA Scheme

Topic- Government Policies and Interventions [GS Paper-2]

Context- Recently, the Report of the Expert Committee on SVAMITVA Scheme was released during the National Conference on SVAMITVA Scheme and Rural Planning.

Key Highlights 

• The recently released report provides the guiding principles that States may adopt, in order to realize the objectives of the SVAMITVA Scheme holistically.
• The Expert Committee on SVAMITVA Scheme was formed in 2022 and it consists of domain experts from Land Governance, Banking, Survey of India, National Informatics Centre (NIC) -Geographic information system (GIS), State Revenue and Panchayati Raj Departments, Industry and premier Planning and Architecture Institutes

Recommendations of the committee 

• The committee recommended the creation of systems that will promote transparency in the implementation of the scheme.
• It also stated to promote  the adoption of record of rights for availing bank loans.
• Linkages between different departments for informed decision-making related to property tax assessment and collection need to be developed as an immediate action.
• Wider adoption of SVAMITVA data-sets by government and private agencies as per new geospatial guidelines will help in easy implementation of the scheme.
• Adoption of RADPFI (Rural Area Development Plan Formulation and Implementation) Guidelines and SVAMTIVA data will further work for accurate village level-planning.
• The committee has also recommended increasing capacity at State, District and Block level for GIS skill sets, among others.

SVAMITVA Scheme

• SVAMITVA scheme stands for Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas.
• It is a centrally sponsored scheme which was launched nationally on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day on 24th April 2021.
• Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) acts as the nodal Ministry of the scheme.
• Survey of India is the Technology Implementation Agency of the SVAMITVA scheme.

Objectives of the Scheme 

• It aims at providing an integrated property validation solution for rural India.
• The scheme also provides the ‘record of rights’ to village household owners in rural areas and issue Property Cards.

Features of the scheme 

• The demarcation of rural areas under the scheme would be done using Drone Surveying Technology which uses CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Stations) Networks that provides mapping accuracy of 5 cm.
• The scheme would provide the ‘record of rights’ to village household owners possessing houses in inhabited rural areas in villages.
• Around 6.62 Lakh villages of the entire country will be covered under the scheme during 2021-2025.
• Under the provisions of the scheme, Property Cards that are known as ‘Title deed’ in Haryana, ‘Rural Property Ownership Records (RPOR)’ in Karnataka, ‘Adhikar Abhilekh’ in Madhya Pradesh, ‘Sannad’ in Maharashtra, ‘Svamitva Abhilekh’ in Uttarakhand, ‘Gharauni’ in Uttar Pradesh.

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