The Yogi Adityanath government is coming up with a big gift for the villagers under which it will provide rural residential documents, also called gharauni certificate, to villagers for ownership of their houses.

Preparations are underway to provide gharauni certificates to more than four lakh villagers. A grand ceremony will be organised this month in which gharauni certificates will be given to the villagers by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Till December 23 last year, 27.47 lakh villagers have been provided papers under the swamitva yojana (ownership scheme).

Further to this, the Revenue Board is preparing to provide home ownership certificates to more than four lakh villagers of 4,000 villages. UP is at the forefront in providing household documents to the villagers.

It is worth mentioning here that the villagers get the documents of their residential property in digital form and for this, the state government has prepared a scheme to computerize 7.65 crore properties in about one lakh villages of the state. The scheme was launched on October 12 last year.

Under this, on the lines of khatauni of agricultural fields, the Revenue Board is preparing documents of ownership of residential properties of the villagers.

A government spokesman said that gharauni praman patra is to be prepared in about one lakh villages of the state through digital maps.

“A digital map is being prepared by surveying villages with the help of drones. So far, after surveying 15,940 villages through more than 70 drones, 27.47 lakh villagers have been given gharauni certificates,” the official said.

Emphasising the benefits, the official said one could get loans from rural banks through the gharauni certificate.

Till now, banks do not give loans to the villagers on their houses, because they do not have any document proving the ownership of the houses.

“Survey is to be carried out in all 75 districts of the state to implement this scheme of the Central government. The ownership plan is to be completed by the year 2025. A roadmap is being prepared for the implementation of this scheme in a stipulated time frame and work is being done on it in a phased manner. Out of the villages where aerial survey has been completed, gharauni certificates of 27.47 lakh residential properties in 15,940 villages have been provided to the villagers,” the official said.