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Govt aims to distribute 22 mn Svamitva rural property cards
Mint Kolkata
|December 26, 2024
The scheme aims to create records of rights for inhabited areas in villages
The government aims to distribute 21.9 million Svamitva property cards by March 2026 to validate properties in rural India and help villagers use their property as collateral against loans, said Vivek Bharadwaj, Union secretary of Panchayati Raj ministry, on Wednesday.
This includes 5.8 million cards which will be distributed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to 50,000 villages across 12 states and Union territories on Thursday. The government has so far provided 13.7 million property cards under the Svamitva scheme.
This story is from the December 26, 2024 edition of Mint Kolkata.
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