Svamitva - Guidelines - (2021-2025)
Svamitva - Guidelines - (2021-2025)
Svamitva - Guidelines - (2021-2025)
IMPLEMENTATION
OF SVAMITVA
SCHEME
Survey of Villages and Mapping
with Improvised Technology in
Village Areas
FRAMEWORK FOR
IMPLEMENTATION OF
SVAMITVA SCHEME
9. DELIVERABLES ................................................................................................... 39
ANNEXURES ............................................................................................................... 62
Abadi areas The abadi area includes inhabitant land, inhabited areas
contiguous to Abadi and wadis/basties in rural areas
CORS Continuous Operation Reference System
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DGCA Directorate General of Civil Aviation
DILRMP Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme
DoLR Department of Land Records, Ministry of Rural Development
DR Disaster Recovery
DTM Digital Terrain Model
GCPs Ground Control Points (GCPs)
GIS Geographic Information System
GoI Government of India
GP Gram Panchayat
GPDP Gram Panchayat Development Plan
GSD Ground Sampling Distance
GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
IEC Information, Education and Communication
LPM Land Parcel Maps
MHA Ministry of Home Affairs
MoD Ministry of Defence
MoPR Ministry of Panchayati Raj
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
NPMU National Programme Management Unit
OGC Open Geospatial Consortium
ORI Ortho-rectified images
PPK Post Point Kinematic
RGB Red Green Blue
RTK Real Time Kinematic
SoI Survey of India
SPMU State Programme Management Unit
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UPS Uninterruptible power supply
UT Union Territory
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
WGS 84 World Geodetic System 1984
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Government of India has decided to implement a scheme for surveying the land
parcels in rural inhabited area using Drone technology. The survey shall be done
across the country in a phase wise manner over the period of five years (2020 -
2025).
The scheme is a Central Sector Scheme titled “SVAMITVA – Survey of villages and
mapping with improvised technology in village areas”
This is first time ever initiative that such a large-scale exercise involving most
modern drone technology is being carried out to benefit millions of rural property
owners covering all villages across the country. The outcome from the scheme
would include updating the ‘record-of-rights’ in the revenue/property registers and
issuance of property cards to the property owners. This would facilitate monetization
of rural residential assets for credit and other financial services. Further, this would
also pave the way for clear determination of property tax, which would accrue to the
GPs leading where devolved.
iii. Awareness program to sensitize the rural population about the surveying
methodology and its benefits
iv. Setting of Programme management unit at National and State level
v. Development/ Maintenance of Scheme Dashboard and integration of drone
survey Spatial data/maps with Ministry’s Spatial planning application to
support in planning at local level
vi. Documentation of best practices/ conducting National and Regional
workshops
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1. RATIONALE FOR THE SCHEME
1.1. Introduction
The Government of India has decided to implement the Central Sector scheme
“SVAMITVA”. The Scheme aims to provide an integrated property validation solution
for rural India. The demarcation of abadi areas (the abadi area includes inhabitant
land, inhabited areas contiguous to Abadi and wadis/basties in rural areas ) would be
done using Drone Surveying technology, with the collaborative efforts of the Ministry
of Panchayati Raj, State Panchayati Raj Department, State Revenue Departments
and Survey of India.
This would provide the ‘Record of Rights’ to village household owners possessing
houses in inhabited rural areas in villages which, in turn, would enable them to use
their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits from
Banks. Further, this would also enable updation of property and asset register to
strengthen tax collection and demand assessment process of Gram Panchayats in
States where Property tax is devolved to the Gram Panchayats.
Apart from demarcation of individual rural property, other Gram Panchayat and
community assets like village roads, ponds, canals, open spaces, school,
Anganwadi, Health sub-centres, etc. would also be surveyed and GIS maps would
be created. Further, these GIS maps and spatial database would also help in
preparation of accurate work estimates for various works undertaken by Gram
Panchayats and other Departments of State Government. These can also be used to
prepare better-quality Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP).
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their own property as a financial asset acceptable by the banks for the purpose of
providing loans and other financial assistance. In order to provide the legal right of
the property to the household owner in a time transparent and cost-effective manner,
there is a need of latest Drone Technology and Continuously Operating Reference
Station (CORS) technology for capturing images.
The Survey of India (SoI) prepares National Topographic database on all scales,
leveraging emerging technologies for topographical mapping at various scales as per
user requirements using Airborne-Photography, Satellite Imageries (Stereo/Mono),
Airborne-LIDAR, High Resolution Satellite Imageries (HRSI), Unmanned Air Vehicles
(UAV) or Drone platform with Optical/Infra-Red/LIDAR sensors. High resolution
mapping at very large scales for revenue, urban and water resources requirements
has been in forefront for the past 3-4 years and SoI has evolved standard operating
procedures for acquiring very high-resolution aerial images and preparing very large-
scale maps at 1:500 scale using Drones. The high resolution and `accurate image
base maps have facilitated creation of the most durable record of property holdings
in these areas with no legacy revenue records. Such accurate image base maps
provide a clear demarcation of land holdings in a very short frame of time compared
to on ground physical measurement and mapping of the land parcels. Further, these
maps are free from measurement errors to a very large extent, which is not the case
with physical on ground measurements.
Such maps provide a visual aid to the landowners as well as to the revenue officials
for identifying and resolving any property dispute and are also an invaluable tool for
local level planning.
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2. OBJECTIVES AND COVERAGE OF SCHEME
i. Creation of accurate land records for rural planning and reduce property related
disputes.
ii. To bring financial stability to the citizens in rural India by enabling them to use
their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits.
iii. Determination of property tax, which would accrue to the GPs directly in States
where it is devolved or else, add to the State exchequer.
iv. Creation of survey infrastructure and GIS maps that can be leveraged by any
department for their use.
v. To support in preparation of better-quality Gram Panchayat Development Plan
(GPDP) by making use of GIS maps.
For achieving the above objectives in full measure, certain actions are necessitated
by States that are covered under Section 14.
2.2. Coverage
All villages in the country which will be eventually covered in this scheme. The
entire work is likely to be spread over a period of five years from April 2020 to
March 2025.
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3. COMPONENTS OF THE SCHEME
3.1. Brief outline of the components to be taken up under the
Scheme:
S. No Scheme Component Brief Description*
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i. Acquisition of Images
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Online Monitoring and reporting dashboard would be centrally hosted for real time
monitoring of the SVAMITVA scheme. It will Monitor progress of activities under the
scheme. State Project Management Unit will ensure submission of online
monitoring reports.
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The Ministry of Panchayati Raj shall implement this component either directly
or through other Government Agency.
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4. FINANCIAL OUTLAY AND FUNDING PATTERN
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5. SURVEY APPROACH
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v. SoI takes requisite permission for flying Drones from Directorate General
of Civil Aviation/ Ministry of Defence
vi. Mission planning for drone flying using available maps/satellite imagery
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Chapter- 6
6. STAKEHOLDERS – ROLE & RESPONSIBILITY
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survey activities and shall adhere with the norms as laid by Government of
India
iv. All clearances for drone flying, data vetting and final classification will be
taken by SoI
v. Establishment of CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Stations)
along with their operation and maintenance for five years.
vi. All Continuously Operating Reference Stations shall be connected with
high precision/precision levelling based on Survey of India Benchmarks
vii. Acquisition of Aerial images using Professional Survey Grade Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle/ Drone for Large Scale Mapping of rural Abadi area of state.
viii. Post processing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle images shall be carried out
by Survey of India (SoI) in Geographic Information System lab at SoI
regional centre. The SoI shall use their hardware, software and it’s GIS
Lab for data processing
ix. Data processing and Feature extraction: Ortho Rectified Images, and
extraction of topographical features. Please refer section 3.2.2.ii point
above for details.
x. Attribute entry and linking: The attributes collected/provided by State
Government shall be linked with their respective features, thereby creating
a digital spatial library of all the features and their respective information.
The data entry in the attributes table shall be carried out by Survey of India
in coordination with SPMU.
xi. Numbering of the properties / structures within rural inhabited
(Abadi)/Laldora/area as per numbering system provided by the State
government.
xii. Ground-Truthing and validation of topographical features as derived from
ortho- rectified images
xiii. Generation of updated Land Parcel Maps (LPM) in suitable soft copy
shape (.shp) file formats, in printing formats and other Geographic
Information System compatible formats which shall be linked with
Compatible software. The Land Parcel Maps product shall comprise of
base map overlain by different layers of topographical features, man-made
structures, land parcel information, district/tehsil/village boundaries
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a. Property data / maps, LMP maps and digital data created would be
maintained by State Revenue Department.
b. Hard copies of the Maps created after Survey shall be kept at
1. Gram Panchayats
2. Tehsil/Taluka Record Centre
3. District Record Centres
4. State Record Centre
c. Data Centre Infrastructure available and funded under Digital India
Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP) scheme of
Department of Land Records, Ministry of Rural Development may
be utilised for hosting and storing the data created under the
scheme
xv. Seamless integration of Bhu-Naksha/ related Software with SVAMITVA
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7. ACTIVITIES MAPPING
The following provides the list of activities envisaged for the implementation of the
scheme and the corresponding Stakeholders
(if any)
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(if any)
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(if any)
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(if any)
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(if any)
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(if any)
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(if any)
Development
8.2 GIS data base prepared on 1:500 Survey of India Data Owner:
scale on UTM projection and WGS- Jointly owned by:
84 datum Survey of India,
Ministry of
Panchayati Raj,
State Revenue
Department
Data Storage:
SoI servers /data
centre
8.3 DEM/DSM of better than ± 20 cm Survey of India Data Owner:
accuracy Jointly owned by:
Survey of India,
Ministry of
Panchayati Raj,
State Revenue
Department
Data Storage:
SoI servers / data
centre
8.4 Property Card data (Record of Survey of India Data Owner:
Rights) State Revenue
Department
Date Storage:
NDC/ Cloud
8.5 Hard copy maps on 1:500 scale Survey of India Data Owner:
(04 No’s each) for a village on State Revenue
good quality 90 GSM paper along- Department
with pdf copy Stored at:
i. Gram
Panchayats
ii. Tehsil Record
Centre
iii. District
Record
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(if any)
Centres
iv. State Record
Centre
9 Enhancement in “Gram Manchitra” NIC-GIS
Application – Development of
Analytic tools leveraging GIS
database prepared
10 Updation of property tax and asset Gram Panchayat
register of Gram Panchayat
11 Issuance of property cards to State Revenue
Property Owner Department
12 Training and Capacity building to Survey of India
nominated officials at State
Revenue Department
13 Regular updation of maps. State Revenue
Department
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8. MONITORING AND EVALUATION
A four-layer monitoring and evaluation framework shall be put in place for timely
monitoring, reporting and course corrections (wherever necessary).
It shall operate at National level, State level, District level and Panchayat level and
shall comprise of relevant decision makers and subject matter experts.
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National Steering Committee (NSC) will be responsible for the overall program
oversight, monitoring and guidance for the smooth operation of the scheme. The
Committee would review progress, initiate suitable advisory/instructions to the
States and SoI and guide delivery of Scheme outcomes.
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NPMU will be set up at the National level for overall management, monitoring of
various activities under Scheme and to provide professional and technical
support to States and Survey of India.
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The SSC shall be responsible for overall program oversight and monitoring and
shall provide guidance for the smooth operation of the scheme in the respective
state.
*State may co-opt additional four members from the State Government
State Programme Management Unit (SPMU) will be set up at the State level
for overall management, monitoring of various activities under Scheme and to
support State Revenue Department, District officials, GP functionaries and
Survey of India.
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It shall work under the supervision of Member-Secretary of the SSC and shall
report to him.
It will have qualified and experienced experts from relevant/GIS disciplines. State
Revenue Department may also hire short term consultants and/or will have
flexibility to outsource (SPMU) to professional agencies. Tentative Terms of
Reference for the Consultants is placed at Annexure IV.
At the district level, the Committee will review the progress of implementation of
the Programme at least once a month, and the District Collector/Deputy
Commissioner shall submit report to the State Steering Committee. Also, the
committee would be responsible for monitoring and oversight of the IEC funds
granted.
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Sarpanch Chairman
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*Indicative List
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9. DELIVERABLES
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* GIS Database
i. GIS Data would be jointly owned as mentioned above, except the Property
related data
ii. The data related to Property details would be owned by State Revenue
Department as it has the authority to mutate the Right of Records (RoRs) and
update the maps. Hence, State Revenue Department will be the owner/host
this data and others will have a right to view
iii. Other updated GIS data layer would be shared by The Talathi/Patwari level
officer once every year incorporating updations that have been done in the
preceding 12 months.
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Chapter- 10
10. STATES UNDER VIth SCHEDULE OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF INDIA
10.1. Introduction
i. The VIth Schedule of the Constitution of India contains certain provisions for
the administration of specified tribal areas in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and
Mizoram, according to Article 244 of the Indian Constitution.
ii. The VIth Schedule seeks to safeguard the rights of the tribal population
through the formation of Autonomous District Councils (ADC). ADCs are
bodies representing a district to which the Constitution has given varying
degrees of autonomy within the state legislature. The governors of these
states are empowered to reorganize boundaries of the tribal areas
iii. While these areas fall within the executive authority of the state, provision has
been made for the creation of the District Councils and Regional Councils for
the exercise of the certain legislative and judicial powers.
iv. In all, there are 10 areas in the Northeast that are registered as autonomous
districts under the VI Schedule of the constitution of India – three each in
Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram and one in Tripura.
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Land is inherited in the family. Buying and selling of land does take place but only
within the community
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areas, the individual rights over land is yet to take the form of full property
rights in the sense that transfer of these rights is subject to restrictions if not
virtually possible.
ii. Non-transferability of holding rights renders land unsuitable as collateral for
the purpose of securing institutional credit to land holders. This has long been
cited as a constraint on extension of institutional credit in the hill economies of
the region.
iii. Agriculture in the hills, traditionally, has been shifting in nature due to nomadic
population with no fixed location of settlement. Land used to be communally
held and the rights to land used to be distributed to families according to
customary norms by the village council or the village chief as the case may be
and as such the land revenue is not collected. Absence of land revenue did
not necessitate cadastral survey and settlement of land ownership.
iv. In those parts of the hills of the North East where individual holdings of land
have emerged, transfer of the holding is possible, and it takes place frequently
but within the tribal community only. Details of the modalities of such transfers
differ from state to state and in some cases even within the state.
v. In some cases, transfer by sale of individual holdings within a village can take
place within members of the same tribe, and such transfers are recognised by
the village community.
vi. In some cases, sale deeds on plain or stamped papers are executed by the
transacting parties to record the transfer. But the process does not result in
any formal record or documents conferring land holding rights.
vii. Inter-tribal transfer of individual holdings of village land is not a general
practice, though such transfer of communally held land are known to be in
practice.
viii. In towns, transfer of land holdings among individuals of even different tribes
but of the same state is generally permissible. But transfer of land holding
rights to non-tribal is prohibited by law in all the hill areas to prevent alienation
of tribal land.
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11. IT INFRASTRUCTURE, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
IT infrastructure, Hardware and Software need for data processing, storing and
hosting is illustrated below. This component is not funded under the scheme
i. During project execution: SoI will be making use of all the infrastructure at SoI
Lab and will deliver the intermediate Maps and final data. If department wish
to do QC on digital data at Taluka level, a software VPN can be established
to transfer data from SOI lab to Taluka offices.
ii. Storing Hard Copies of data
Hard copies of the Maps created after Survey would be kept at
a. Gram Panchayats
b. Tehsil Record Centre
c. District Record Centres
d. State Record Centre
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the stakeholders viz. when the individual approaches financial institutions like
banks for getting loan the synced database can be readily available
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Chapter- 12
12. COST NORMS
*Estimated Cost for CORS Network establishment is based on the tendering processes carried out
for establishment of CORS Network in State of Karnataka; State of Maharashtra and State of Uttar
Pradesh as per Govt procurement guidelines and GFR terms.
NOTE:
Actual cost would be based on the outcome of the fresh tendering process
proposed to be carried out for Establishment of the CORS Network for areas
proposed under this project.
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NOTE:
i. SoI has not charged salaries for its staff to be deployed in the project work
in the estimated/final cost.
ii. Out of pocket exp
iii. enses required for execution of field activities viz travelling, lodging,
boarding, food expenses, communication, hiring of vehicles, hiring of local
labour, Fuel- lubricants etc only shall be charged.
iv. Out of pocket expenses are towards field survey activities i.e.
a. TA and DR expenses of SoI field surveyors,
b. Boarding and lodging expenses in field of SoI field surveyors,
c. Hiring field vehicles (including fuel and lubricants) and local labour
or survey khalasi for survey activities,
v. Miscellaneous goods items for procurement are Hard-disks, computers,
drone data processing software licenses, Entry level workstations, NAS
boxes etc.
vi. Maintenance of SoI owned goods covers routine repairs/calibration/
breakdown repairs of SoI owned instruments, equipment being used in
the Project activities viz GNSS Base Receivers, GNSS Rovers, Total
Station, Levelling Instruments, Relative gravimeter, Rugged Field data
collector, Mobile workstations, Entry/Mid-Level workstations etc.
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vii. SoI will not charge cost towards control centre components and its DR
centre components under the project.
viii. SoI will bear or will not charge cost towards Geoid Model development
sub-activity.
ix. No additional cost for QA (Quality Assurance)/QC (Quality Control) work
has been charged by SoI in the estimated cost.
x. GIS software cost has not been charged by SoI in the estimated cost.
xi. No additional cost towards Capacity Building or training of State Govt
officers/staff viz Tuition fee, guest faculty fee has been charged by SoI in
the total project cost.
Junior 5 4 3 2 63130
52 44 26 15 65,000
*Indicative
list of allocation of SPMU per year. This may change based on boarding
and progress of States/UTs on SVAMITVA Scheme
FY 2021- FY 2022- FY 2023- FY 2024-
# STATES/UTs
2022 2023 2024 2025
1 Jammu & Kashmir 0 0 0 2
2 Ladakh 0 0 0 0
3 Andaman & Nicobar 0 0 0 0
4 Andhra Pradesh 3 3 0 0
5 Arunachal Pradesh 0 0 0 2
6 Assam 0 0 4 4
7 Bihar 0 5 5 0
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i. Leveraging digital spatial data/maps created under drone survey 1.5 Crores
for creation of spatial analytical tools to support preparation of
GPDP.
ii. Development and maintenance of online monitoring and reporting
Dashboard of the Scheme
* The SAN space is calculated based on existing model 2GB per village for 6 lakh villages.
** Data processing costs are tentative
** Cost will be arrived as per actuals
# SAN cost may be spread over two years
***Data Processing and maintenance cost spread over 4 years
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Chapter- 13
13. FUTURE UPDATION OF PROPERTY DATA AND MAPS
The State Government shall be responsible for any future updation of rural abadi
property data and conducting surveys on regular basis.
The mechanism for future updation of Property data and maps of a State shall be
decided by the State Government.
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Chapter- 14
14. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STATE GOVERNMENT
The Scheme has many facets. In order to realise its fullest potential, the following
suggestible measures may be undertaken by the respective States. This would not
only ensure better reach of the scheme benefits, but also enhance the socio-
economic profile of the Panchayats, making them self- sustainable.
i. In order for people to secure loans on the basis of Property Card, the State may
take measures to ensure legal validity of transfer of Property. Engagement with
Banks right from the start so that the property card is recognized by them for
loan purposes may be a good strategy
ii. The Property Cards owner’s records may provide for noting of charge/
mortgage/ attachment over the land when such charge/ mortgage/ attachment
is either created by the landowner/ court/ authority in favour of any person/
bank/ lending institution
iii. Provision may be made for stamp duty and registration of Property Cards so
that duplicate/fake Property Card are not used for availing multiple lending by
fraud. Official record for registration of plots may be created at the district level.
iv. The property may be rendered transferable, including for Patta awardees -
registration authorities may allow creation of registered mortgage/ sale of such
land.
v. Procedures may be defined to determine mutation of property with due legal
consultation- the mutation on occasion of voluntary (transfer, sale, gift,
mortgage) or involuntary (Succession) be clearly defined.
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geotagged with the Property Cards. This data could be utilised for identification
of part or areas of property, which would further enable prevention of frauds.
vii. The record of Property Cards owners under SVAMITVA Scheme may be
aligned with land revenue records
States may ensure that women/widows, orphans, dalits, SCs/STs are not deprived of
their legitimate title in the Property card.
i. Gender Responsive
As per the Census 2011, there are 71.4 million single women, which includes
unmarried women, widows, divorcees, etc. who are often excluded from ownership
and inheritance rights. At 12 percent, single women form a significant population.
This may in fact be an opportunity to recognize women’s ownership rights as
SVAMITVA grants Property Cards based on ‘possession’ and not only on basis of
‘inheritance’. Hence, States may allow to include details of more than one owner,
specifically recognizing joint ownership of property by women. Further, State with the
help of civil society organisations may sensitize field functionaries for gender
inclusion.
i. The Constitution provides for the States to endow Gram Panchayats with the
opportunity to raise resources to function as units of self-governance. In India,
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The true objective of the ‘Property Card’ and the scheme may always be kept in
mind and it should be understood by all the stakeholders that the end goal of the
scheme is not to produce the property cards but to empower the rural beneficiary to
benefit from it and the States, local bodies and other public institutions to use this
as a foundation to design and deliver various schemes and services for the
upliftment of rural beneficiaries
i. It has been widely noted that with the passage of time, people come to settle
on agricultural land, therefore, provisions for re-categorized of such
Agriculture Lands into Abadi Areas may be enacted in the respective State
laws.
ii. States may also like to enforce a time limit for the completion of survey activity
from the date of proclamation of Abadi survey, as in the case of the state of
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Madhya Pradesh.
iii. In order to assess the quality of Property cards and performance of the
States, a ranking system is in the works vis-à-vis enhancement in Gram
Panchayat own source revenue, ease of obtaining mortgage and social justice
etc.
The aforesaid measures are by no means exhaustive- the States shall be ranked
based on their strategies and actions to fully realise the Scheme’s objectives.
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Chapter- 15
15. TECHNICAL GUIDELINES
15.1. Standardisation of GIS Database
The following main data layers shall be generated under the survey
i. Cadastral
ii. Transportation
iii. Hypsography or Terrain
iv. Hydrology
v. Habitation
vi. Drainage
vii. Land Use or land Cover (LU/LC)
viii. Point of Interest
15.2. Symbology
Symbology shall be defined as per standard SoI symbology and Meta-data as
BIS standard shall be prepared for GIS database.
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Annexures
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**indicative list – The list is subject to changes approved by the Secretary, Ministry of
Panchayati Raj based on States/UTs signing MoUs with Survey of India and pace of
implementation in States/UTs
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**indicative list – The list is subject to changes approved by the Secretary, Ministry of
Panchayati Raj
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A. State Government
i. Area/site for Continuously Operating Reference Stations network
installation shall be provided by State Government, along with Electricity
and physical security of CORS equipment’s to Survey of India
ii. Facilitates hiring of field vehicles, local labours, accommodation for field
teams etc.
iii. Ground marking of parcels/properties in area to be surveyed using white
powder (Chuna etc.)
iv. Ground-Truthing, validation of Land Parcel maps shall be carried out by
State Revenue Department
v. Digitization of existing GP property (Tax) Registers (wherever applicable)
to make available to SoI and Enquiry Officer for preparing interim
map/Records.
vi. Store, Host and update the data created under the SVAMITVA scheme;
the survey could be revisited as per the frequency decided by the State
Govt. or Panchayat for updating purpose.
vii. Integration of Bhu-Naksha / related Software with SVAMITVA maps
viii. Enquiry/objection process related administrative expenditure and other
operational & administrative charges
**labour, material cost for demarcation related work, Gram Panchayat mobilisation,
enquiry/objection process related administrative expenditure and other operational &
administrative charges can be covered by the Gram panchayat utilizing funds from
MGNREGA, XV Finance Commission and/or RGSA funds
B. Survey of India
i. Data Processing: Post processing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle images
shall be carried out by Survey of India (SoI) in Geographic Information
System lab at SoI regional centre. The SoI shall use their hardware and
software and their GIS Lab for data Processing
ii. Ground-Truthing and validation of topographical features as derived from
ortho- rectified images shall be carried out by Survey of India
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Key Responsibilities
Educational Qualifications
▪ BE/ B. Tech / Bachelors in relevant field
Experience
▪ 6 to 15 years
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Educational Qualifications
▪ Any Graduate
Experience
▪ 1 to 3 years
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Annexure VII: SOP prepared for Drone Survey by Karnal District, Haryana
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1. STATES
SVAMITVA SCHEME
MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT
State:
Month: Dated:
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Nature of Loan
S.no Village Name Amount of Loan
(Housing / Business)
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2. SURVEY OF INDIA
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MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT – SURVEY OF INDIA
Month: Dated:
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9. CORS Status
S.no State Site Monumentation Stations
Selected and completed Functional
Recce done
10.CORS Status
S.no State No. of officials from Total officials from
Revenue/ Panchayati Revenue/ Panchayati
Raj department trained Raj department trained
in this Month till now
11. MoU signed with any new States (if Yes). Please provide details and share
signed copy of MoU
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1. GRAM PANCHAYAT
S.No. Activity Done (Yes/No) Date Remarks
4 Is sufficient chunna
powder available for
demarcation of
boundaries?
5 Does the demarcation of
boundaries done in
presence of Sarpanch and
other residents?
6 Is the public and
Government property
demarcated ?
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2 Is munadi/ procalmation
about drone survey done?
3 Is the demarcation of
boundary of abadi land/ lal
dora done based on
existing records?
4 Is all the properties
private/public/government
demarcated with chunna
powder?
5 Is the attendance of survey
of India officials, Gram
panchayat residents,
sarpanch and other
concerned officials team
ensured?
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7 GCP established?
9 All properties
(Private/Public/
Government) are clearly
chunna marked?
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5 Uttar Uttar Pradesh Land Revenue Code, 2006 (Act number 8-year
Pradesh 2012) -Section 43(2)
Different States have different nomenclature for the Property Cards viz. ‘Title deed’
in Haryana, ‘Rural Property Ownership Record (RPOR)’ in Karnataka, ‘Adhikar
Abhilekh’ in Madhya Pradesh, ‘Sannad’ in Maharashtra, ‘Gharauni’ in Uttar
Pradesh and ‘Svamitva Abhilekh’ in Uttarakhand.
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