Svamitva Scheme

The Prime Minister launched the Svamitva (Survey of villages and mapping with improvised technology in village areas) Scheme for ownership plan in rural India on occasion of the Panchayati Raj Day. Svamitva Scheme is an ownership plan scheme that will record and decide the ownership of land in rural residential areas. The scheme will make use of drones and other modern technology to record the land areas.

Key Features of the Scheme

• Scheme was launched under the Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
• The scheme is to address the issue of many villagers having no record or documental proof for their land holdings.
• Drones will be used to measure the residential areas to prevent disputes.
• Google mapping will also be used under this scheme for assessment.
• This will enable better tax collection from these lands. The revenue collected is to go into rural infrastructure development.

Use of Drones in Land Survey

Earlier, land survey for various purposes, was carried out manually. Nowadays the government has started using drones to survey and measure the land. Eg: the Drone based Mapping Project was launched in 2019 for implementation by the Survey of India. This large scale mapping project is to generate accurate revenue maps and GIS database.