In compliance with announcement of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at Kisan Mahapanchayat 3 months ago, the Revenue Department has launched a campaign under which copies of B-1 and khasra are being delivered door-to-door free of cost. So far, copies of B-1 and khasra have been provided to 2 crore 13 lakh 66 thousand 278 farmers.
Datia district has even achieved cent percent target on April 26 and stood first in implementation of the campaign. Dhar, Barwani, Khandwa and Burhanpur achieved 98 percent of the target and Indore and Sehore 94 percent so far.
Giving this information, Revenue Minister Karan Singh Verma informed that the Revenue Department had started giving concrete shape to the announcement soon after this was made by the Chief Minister at Kisan Mahapanchayat held in Bhopal on February 2013. Detailed guidelines were sent to all the district collectors and preliminary budget worth `2 crore 95 lakh 40 thousand 517 was allocated for distribution of copies of B-1 and khasra. Verma informed that total number of khasra entries and B-1 is 4 crore 29 lakh 612 of which 50.9 percent has been achieved.
All the collectors have been directed to complete process of free distribution of copies of B-1 and khasra by May 31. Division-wise progress of free distribution of copies of B-1 and khasra is as follows: Chambal division 17.93 percent Gwalior division 54.31 percent, Ujjain division 38.03 percent, Indore division 82.24 percent, Bhopal division 35.29 percent, Narmadapuram division 49.41 percent, Jabalpur division 61.54 percent, Rewa division 51.54 percent and Shahdol division 45.76 percent.