PM Modi: Property cards under SVAMITVA will unlock economic activity worth over Rs 100 lakh crore

Calling it a “historic time for the villages and the agrarian areas of India”, helium said astir fractional of the country’s much than 6 lakh villages had been surveyed by drones nether the spot survey programme, which was launched successful 2020. He said 2.25 crore radical successful villages person truthful acold received ineligible documents for their houses nether the scheme.

“After getting ineligible documents, lakhs of radical person taken loans from banks connected the ground of their houses and property. With this money, they person started their tiny concern successful the village. Many of these are tiny and mean husbandman families. For them, these spot cards person go a large warrant of economical security,” the PM said.

“Our Dalit, backward and tribal families were the astir troubled and affected by amerciable concern and agelong disputes successful the court. Now, with the availability of ineligible proof, they are getting alleviation from this crisis. It is estimated that aft spot cards are made successful each the villages, the mode volition unfastened for economical enactment of much than Rs 100 lakh crore. You tin ideate however overmuch superior is going to beryllium added to the country’s economy,” helium added.

The beneficiaries who received spot cards connected Saturday came from 10 states and 2 Union Territories — Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. During the event, the PM besides interacted with 5 SVAMITVA beneficiaries.

In his speech, the Prime Minister cited a UN survey emphasising that reducing poorness requires radical to person spot rights. Citing a publication by a renowned economist connected the situation of spot rights, helium said that the tiny magnitude of spot owned by villagers is often “dead capital”. “This means that the spot cannot beryllium utilized for transactions, and it does not assistance summation the family’s income,” the PM said. Underlining that India was not immune to the planetary situation of spot rights, the PM said that contempt having spot “worth millions of crores”, villagers successful India often lacked ineligible documents, starring to disputes and adjacent amerciable concern by almighty individuals.” “The banks (too) kept their region from specified properties,” helium said.

Attacking the erstwhile governments, the PM said they “did not instrumentality factual steps to code this issue”. Calling SVAMITVA and Bhu-Aadhaar, a unsocial onshore parcel recognition fig (ULPIN) for each land, arsenic foundational systems for colony development, the PM said 23 crore Bhu-Aadhaar numbers person been issued truthful far.

“Over the past 7-8 years, astir 98% of onshore records person been digitized, and astir onshore maps are present digitally available,” helium said. According to an authoritative statement, “Drone survey has been completed successful implicit 3.17 lakh villages, which covers 92% of the targeted villages.” “The strategy has reached afloat saturation successful Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tripura, Goa, Uttarakhand and Haryana. Drone survey has been completed successful Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh and respective UTs,” the connection said.