Haryana Government’s campaign to make the villages free from ‘Lal Dora’ got a major boost on Sunday when Prime Minister, Narendra Modi digitally launched the physical distribution of property cards to the property owners of 763 villages of six pilot States including 221 villages of Haryana under the “Svamitva Scheme” through video conferencing.
The other five states included Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
The Haryana Government launched the campaign to make the villages of the state free from ‘Lal Dora’ on December 25, 2019, on the occasion of ‘Good Governance Day’ well before the launch of ‘Pradhanmantri Svamitva Yojna’ on April 24, 2020.
Village Sirsi in district Karnal was the first village in Haryana to be declared as ‘Lal Dora’ free. Under the Svamitva Yojna, 227 villages of 22 districts of Hary- ana have been declared free from Lal Dora. Apart from this, three cities of Karnal, Jind and Sohna have also been declared Lal Dora free. The State Government has sped up the work in this direction and soon the entire state will Dora free.
On this occasion, a cheque of Rs 5 lakh was also handed over to Likhi Chand of village Bihlaka, district Gurugram as the first installment of a sanctioned loan of Rs 15 lakh against Svamitva Deed by the Gurugram Central Cooperative Bank Limited.
After launching the physical distribution of property cards under the Svamitva Yojna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with the property card owners from six pilot states. They included Dashrath Singh Marvi of district Dindori, Madhya Pradesh, Ram Milan of district Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, Suresh Chand of District Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, Mumtaz Ali of district Yamunanagar, Haryana, Ramrati of district Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh and Vishwanath Krushna Mujumale of Pune, Maharashtra. Mumtaz Ali from district Yamunanagar who is a mason by profession thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving him legal ownership of his house property.
He said that though he earns Rs 15,000 per month but now after getting the legal document of his property under the Svamitva Yojna, he can avail loan from the banks to further expand his work.