Rural public to get ownership of own plot

Now the rural public can enjoy the ownership of their own plot. The villagers will get the records of their rights after the survey of the rural settlements in the State.

Property registers will also be prepared at the panchayat level from the database prepared under the scheme for the benefit of the villagers.

The villagers will receive this gift under the announcement of 'Gramin Aabadi Sarvekshan Yojana' by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 24. This work will be done by the Survey of India through the Panchayat and Rural Development and Revenue Department.Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has given instructions to implement the Gramin Aabadi Sarvekshan Yojana effectively. The Survey of India is proposed to start work in the first week of June in some villages of Harda and Dindori districts. In this regard, guidelines have been issued to the district collectors.

Chief Minister Chouhan said that 10 pilot districts have been selected in the first year under the scheme; survey of remaining 43 districts will be sorted in the second and third year.

In the first phase, 10,553 revenue villages have been included in the districts of Morena, Sheopur, Sagar, Shahdol, Khargone, Vidisha, Bhopal, Sehore, Harda and Dindori. The survey of residential land in all these revenue villages will be done in three phases.The main goal of the Gramin Aabadi Sarvekshan Yojana is to prepare the records of right of rural properties and to provide ownership records of their property to each property owner, which will be a proof of his/her possession and ownership.

The cost-wise classification of the scheme has been done to implement it effectively. Amount of Rs 17.85 crore in the year 2020-21, 40.06 crore in the year 2021-22, thus 97.97 crore amount will be spent in three years. Amount of Rs 29.09 crore to be paid directly by the Government of India to Survey Department of India, expenditure on work done by Panchayat and Rural Development Department Rs 27.55 crore, and expenditure on works done by Revenue Department Rs 41.33 crore is included.

Under the residential land survey, only the property records of those property holders who were on the residential land on September 25, 2018, the date of the implementation of Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code-1959 (as amended-2018) or who were lawfully allotted the residential land plot after the same date.

If there is a settlement on unoccupied land near concerned residential area, which is not included in residential area, then in such a situation, the collector can take action to declare unclaimed land as a residential.