Haryana Government has geared up to become the first state in the country to achieve the target of making 11 villages in every district of the state ‘Lal Dora’ free by October 2 on the occasion of birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
This would be done under the Svamitva scheme, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of Panchayati Raj Day. This information was shared during a meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal with Surveyor General of India, Lt. General Girish Kumar regarding review of the Haryana Large Scale Mapping Project and SVAMITVA scheme, through video conferencing, held here.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister urged the officers of Survey of India to prepare Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the departments including Development and Panchayat, Revenue and Disaster Management, Urban Local Bodies so that they can freely carry out the work related to this scheme. Besides this, SOP should also be prepared for getting administrative approval from the Chief Secretary’s office.
While ensuring that full cooperation will be extended to the Survey of India, Manohar Lal said that the State Government will leave no stone unturned in achieving the Prime Minister's goal set under the SVAMITVA scheme.
He said that all the necessary information related to properties and revenue records of the Gram Panchayats and Municipal Corporations should be made available on a single platform.
The Chief Minister was apprised that the work of mapping using drones has been completed in Municipal Corporation of Karnal, 140 villages and Jind and Sohna cities. The work of digitizing the records of the remaining nine Municipal Corporations will be done in the next phase.
Principal Secretary, Development and Panchayat Department, Sudhir Rajpal informed that by July 27, the work of line marking of Lal Dora area in the villages will be sent to Survey of India.
After declaring the village Sirsi in district Karnal free from Lal Dora, now the process of making eight villages of Panchkula free from Lal Dora is in the final stage.
He assured the Chief Minister that Haryana will be a leading State in the country for declaring 11 villages in every district as free from Lal Dora under the Svamitva scheme by October 2.
He said that in 242 villages and three cities including Karnal, Jind and Sohna this work will be completed at a fast pace.
Surveyor General of India, Lt. General Girish Kumar, apprised the Chief Minister that along with line marking, 30 drones would be deployed at different locations.