In pursuance of the vision of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to eliminate house ownership disputes, the records of over 1.57 lakh houses of more than one thousand villages of Uttar Pradesh have been digitised under the ambitious ‘Swamitva Yojana’, launched to provide ownership to real owners of the houses built in rural areas.
The property cards (Gharauni) will be handed over to the real owners virtually by the chief minister on Friday. He will hand over certificates of ownership symbolically while the rest will be distributed by the district officials.
The ‘Swamitva Scheme’ comes in force along with another flagship scheme called ‘Varasat’, of Yogi government, which is aimed at putting an end to land disputes in rural areas. The property cards, to be given to the villagers, will enable them to access bank finance using their property as collateral, and will also help in keeping a record of properties to get rid of house ownership issues.
For the effective implementation of ‘Swamitva Yojana’ launched by the Central government, the Union Ministry of Panchayati
Raj and UP government have already started a survey in the 75 districts of the state. In the first phase, after conducting the survey of all existing houses, their actual area and the list of owners of the houses will be prepared. The ownership will be declared after disposing of all the objections. Besides this, the numbering of all the houses will be done and houses will be geo-tagged.
Under the ‘Swamitva Yojana’, the land in rural populated areas will be mapped using modern technologies and drones have been pressed into service to demarcate the land. As many as 40 drones are already in service in various districts.
The digitised property cards of Azamgarh, Kaushambi, Chitrakoot, Jalaun, Jhansi, Fatehpur, Banda, Mahoba, Lalitpur, Varanasi and Hamirpur districts will be distributed in the first phase.
The ‘Swamitva Scheme’ has also been implemented successfully in Ayodhya and it has shown encouraging results so far, District Magistrate of Ayodhya Anuj Kumar Jha said.
According to an official spokesman, the number of drones deployed to conduct the surveys will be increased to 200, even as the scheme is being implemented in an intensive manner.