Lok Sabha Question No. 313 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-22
Subject: SVAMITVA Scheme for Land Record
Ministry: PANCHAYATI RAJ
Asked by: Dr. Amar Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ

## LOKSABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 313

ANSWERED ON 22/07/2025

## SVAMITVASCHEME FOR LAND RECORD

## 313. DR. AMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of PANCHAYATI RAJ be pleased to State:

(a) whether the SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages Abadi & Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) scheme ensures accurate land records for better rural planning and governance; and

(b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR PANCHAYATI RAJ

## (PROF. S. P. SINGH BAGHEL)

(a) and (b) Yes sir, the SVAMITVA Scheme ensures accurate land records for better rural planning and governance. The details are as under:

Ministry of Panchayati Raj is implementing SVAMITVA Scheme to provide Record of Rights to village property owners. The scheme aims to demarcate inhabited (Abadi) land in rural areas through the latest drone survey-technology through the collaborative effort of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Revenue Departments, State Panchayati Raj Departments and Survey of India. The scheme has multiple objectives enabling bank loan against property card, reducing property related disputes and comprehensive village level planning.

Under SVAMITVA Scheme, maps of inhabited rural areas of villages are prepared on a scale of 1:500 with an accuracy of 5 cms which can be used by Panchayats for preparing better panchayat development plans. The network of 567 Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) established as public infrastructure under SVAMITVA Scheme provides high accuracy positioning services that may be utilized by any department or agency for planning and development related activities.

SVAMITVA Scheme has also provided States/UTs with an opportunity to develop

online systems for land management. States such as Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat have created end to end online systems for management of rural land records leading to better rural land governance.

As on 17 th July 2025, drone survey has been completed in 3.23 lakh villages, 2.56 crore property cards have been prepared for 1.69 lakh villages. Drone survey is saturated in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Kerala and Ladakh. The scheme has been saturated in Haryana, Uttarakhand, Puducherry, Goa, Tripura, Dadra Nagar Haveli Daman, Lakshadweep and A&N Island. Details are at annexure-1.

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## Annexure 1

Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) and (b) of the Lok Sabha UnStarred Question No. 313 answered on 22.07.2025 regarding 'SVAMITVA Scheme for Land Record'.

## State/UT wise Status of SVAMITVA Scheme

|   S.N o. | States/UTs                               | Notified Villages   |   Drone Flying Villages | Number of villages for which property card prepared   |   Number of property cards prepared |
|----------|------------------------------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands              | 186                 |                     186 | 141                                                   |                                7409 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh                           | 13321               |                   13321 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh                        | 5596                |                    3630 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|        4 | Assam                                    | 1074                |                     946 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh                             | 15791               |                   15791 | 1785                                                  |                              103909 |
|        6 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 80                  |                      80 | 75                                                    |                                4397 |
|        7 | Delhi                                    | 31                  |                      31 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|        8 | Goa                                      | 410                 |                     410 | 410                                                   |                              672646 |
|        9 | Gujarat                                  | 15052               |                   14199 | 8882                                                  |                             1453879 |
|       10 | Haryana                                  | 6260                |                    6260 | 6260                                                  |                             2515646 |
|       11 | Himachal Pradesh                         | 15196               |                   13920 | 364                                                   |                                5395 |
|       12 | Jammu and Kashmir                        | 4431                |                    4404 | 1294                                                  |                               39204 |
|       13 | Jharkhand                                | 757                 |                     240 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|       14 | Karnataka                                | 30757               |                   20814 | 3966                                                  |                             1019105 |
|       15 | Kerala                                   | 597                 |                     597 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|       16 | Ladakh                                   | 232                 |                     232 | 225                                                   |                               15623 |
|       17 | Lakshadweep Islands                      | 10                  |                      10 | 10                                                    |                               13563 |
|       18 | Madhya Pradesh                           | 43014               |                   43014 | 36998                                                 |                             4610793 |
|       19 | Maharashtra                              | 37819               |                   37609 | 17961                                                 |                             2839776 |
|       20 | Manipur                                  | 2555                |                     209 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|       21 | Mizoram                                  | 550                 |                     433 | 27                                                    |                                2909 |
|       22 | Odisha                                   | 3054                |                    2724 | 43                                                    |                                3112 |
|       23 | Puducherry                               | 96                  |                      96 | 92                                                    |                                2801 |
|       24 | Punjab                                   | 12083               |                   10458 | 178                                                   |                               24089 |
|       25 | Rajasthan                                | 36,300              |                   35929 | 14,364                                                |                             1123948 |
|       26 | Sikkim                                   | 1                   |                       1 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|       27 | Tamil Nadu                               | 3                   |                       3 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|       28 | Telangana                                | 5                   |                       5 | 0                                                     |                                   0 |
|       29 | Tripura                                  | 898                 |                      19 | 893                                                   |                              571783 |

| 30   | Uttar Pradesh   | 90573   |   90573 |   67987 |   10373787 |
|------|-----------------|---------|---------|---------|------------|
| 31   | Uttarakhand     | 7441    |    7441 |    7441 |     278229 |
|      | Total           | 344,173 |  323585 |  169396 |   25682003 |

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