Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation
In News: Inauguration of a National Meet on SVAMITVA Scheme that would provide cross-learning platform for States in respect of processes of SVAMITVA Scheme
The acronym SVAMITA stands for Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas.
It is a Central Sector Scheme (100% by Union Government) implemented by Union Ministry of Panchayat Raj
It is aimed at “providing ‘record of rights’ to village household owners possessing houses in inhabited rural areas in villages and issuance of property cards to the property owners.”
The government aims to provide such property cards to each household in the next three to four years in every village across the country.
The plan is to survey all rural properties using drones and prepare GIS based maps for each village.
