SVAMITVA FAQ

SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages Abadi and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) is a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj. It maps the inhabited areas of villages with drones and gives household owners a property card, a legal record of rights. Read what SVAMITVA is.

The Prime Minister launched it on National Panchayati Raj Day, 24 April 2020, as a pilot in nine states. It went nationwide on 24 April 2021.

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is the nodal ministry. The Survey of India flies the drones and makes the maps. Each State’s Revenue Department verifies ownership and issues the cards, with help from the State Panchayati Raj Department and the Gram Panchayat.

To give village household owners a record of rights so they can use their property for loans, to reduce property disputes, to help Gram Panchayats assess property tax, and to create accurate maps for village planning.

The Ministry’s April 2025 backgrounder gives a total cost of ₹566.23 crore for 2020-21 to 2024-25, with an extension until 2025-26.

The Ministry told the Lok Sabha on 21 July 2026 that the scheme had been extended till September 2026. Cards were still being generated after that: 3.31 crore by 24 September 2026. No further extension had been announced on the Press Information Bureau by 12 November 2026. Ask your Gram Panchayat or tehsil about pending cards.

India showcased SVAMITVA at an International Workshop on Land Governance in Gurugram from 24 to 29 March 2025, attended by more than 40 delegates from 22 countries. Press Information Bureau releases do not report any other country adopting it as its own programme.

The owners of houses and plots in the abadi area of a notified village, as confirmed by the State’s ownership inquiry and objection process. See who gets a property card.

You don’t. The Collector notifies villages, and all properties in the abadi are surveyed. Ignore anyone offering paid “registration”.

No. It covers village inhabited (abadi) land only. Farmland is recorded under each State’s land-records system.

No. Urban land is outside the scheme. The Department of Land Resources runs a separate pilot, NAKSHA, for urban property cards.

Yes. The survey also maps Gram Sabha land, government land, village roads, ponds, open spaces, schools, Anganwadi centres and health sub-centres, so the Panchayat has an accurate asset register. These do not become private property.

Ask your Gram Panchayat whether it is on the State’s list for the survey. Notification is done by the Collector, and the Gram Sabha is told the schedule.

Yes. Joint owners, including wives and daughters, can be recorded. The Ministry says the scheme has encouraged women to be recorded as property owners in rural abadi areas.

Notification by the Collector, a Gram Sabha, chuna (lime) marking of boundaries, the drone flight by the Survey of India, ground truthing, an ownership inquiry with objections, and then the final record and cards. See the drone survey process.

The marking of property boundaries on the ground with white limestone powder, so they show in the drone images. Some states use an agreed method without lime marking.

The guidelines specify 1:500-scale maps from images sharper than 5 cm per pixel, checked on the ground for accuracy better than 10 cm. The CORS positioning network provides about 5 cm accuracy.

The Survey of India, the country’s national mapping agency, flies survey-grade drones after getting permission from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Defence.

Not for the flight itself. Try to be present, or send a family member, when your boundary is marked and when revenue staff check the map on the ground.

No. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj funds the Survey of India for the drone survey and maps.

Gharauni in Uttar Pradesh, Adhikar Abhilekh in Madhya Pradesh, Sannad in Maharashtra, Title deed in Haryana, RPOR in Karnataka, Svamitva Abhilekh in Uttarakhand and Patta in Rajasthan. Elsewhere it is called a property card. Use the state lookup.

It is Hindi for property document. It describes the SVAMITVA card. It is not a separate card.

Check DigiLocker, your state’s land-records portal where one is listed (for example MP Bhulekh or Mahabhulekh), or the SMS link the State sent you. Otherwise collect the printed card from the tehsil or Gram Panchayat. See property card download.

Gharaunis are generated on the SVAMITVA Uttar Pradesh portal, which is meant for revenue staff. Ask your lekhpal or tehsil, or call the portal’s helpline on 7080100588 (Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 6 pm), and check DigiLocker.

No. The national portal shows progress reports by state, district and village. Cards are issued and held by the States.

The owner’s name, every co-owner’s name, the property number, the area, the boundary sketch if printed, and the village, tehsil and district. Report any error to the tehsil in writing straight away.

In states that have connected their cards, yes. The Ministry says beneficiaries can view and download property cards in the DigiLocker app.

Often, yes. 11,147 loans worth ₹1,713 crore had been disbursed against SVAMITVA cards by August 2026, most of them in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Banks decide each case under their own rules and state law. See bank loans on a property card.

Clear ownership on the card, a state law that allows a mortgage or charge on the property, and the ability to recover the loan by selling the property if you default.

The scheme does not fix an amount. The bank decides based on the property’s value, your income and its own lending rules.

The Ministry has not published a list. Some banks in several states have started, and States are working through the State Level Bankers’ Committee. Ask your branch.

Write to the officer named in the village notice within the objection period, with proof, and attend the hearing. See objections and disputes.

It differs by state. The Ministry’s Expert Committee listed periods from 7 days (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) to 90 days (Punjab), with 15 days in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Follow your village’s notice.

The owner’s name, missing or wrong co-owners, boundaries and area, private land shown as government land (or the reverse), and a property left off the map.

An enquiry officer first. If a dispute stays unresolved, the District Magistrate or Collector decides, or another authority the State has named.

Apply to the tehsildar for correction under your state’s revenue law, with proof. If it is not resolved, write to the Collector and, if needed, lodge a grievance on CPGRAMS.

Yes, where the competent State authority finds a genuine technical issue. The Ministry has said corrective measures include re-flying drones.

3.30 lakh villages had been surveyed by drone by 24 September 2026, out of 3,38,722 notified. See state-wise progress.

3.31 crore cards had been generated for 2.04 lakh villages by 24 September 2026. About 2.72 crore had been distributed by 5 August 2026.

As on 24 September 2026: Haryana, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Odisha, Puducherry, Goa, Tripura, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

31 States and UTs appear in the 4 August 2026 progress table. Bihar, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Chandigarh do not.

Uttar Pradesh: about 1.04 crore Gharaunis by 5 August 2026, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 54.18 lakh and Maharashtra with 39.71 lakh cards distributed.

No. The Ministry told the Lok Sabha in August 2026 that SVAMITVA is not integrated with eGramSwaraj, which is a planning, accounting and monitoring system for Panchayats.

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj’s map-based planning application for Gram Panchayat Development Plans. It uses SVAMITVA drone maps. See Gram Manchitra, eGramSwaraj and ULPIN.

A 14-digit unique land parcel number, also called Bhu-Aadhaar, from the Department of Land Resources. Madhya Pradesh, Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir use it in SVAMITVA.

No. SVAMITVA maps village abadi land under the Ministry of Panchayati Raj. DILRMP, run by the Department of Land Resources, modernises land records, mainly for agricultural land.

Start with the tehsil, then the District Collector. For unresolved grievances, use CPGRAMS. For Uttar Pradesh, the SVAMITVA helpline is 7080100588.

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