Chandigarh, July 21: Haryana Government is geared up to become the first State in the Country to achieve the target of making 11 villages in every district of the State Lal Dora free by October 2, 2020 on the occasion of birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, under Svamitva scheme, as announced by Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi on the occasion of Panchayati Raj Day.

This information was shared during a meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal with Surveyor General of India, Lt. General Girish Kumar regarding review of the Haryana Large Scale Mapping Project and SVAMITVA scheme, through video conferencing, held here today. Deputy Chief Minister, Mr. Dushyant Chautala, was also present in the meeting.

In the meeting, Chief Minister urged the officers of Survey of India to prepare Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the departments including Development and Panchayat, Revenue and Disaster Management, Urban Local Bodies so that they can freely carry out the work related to this scheme. Besides this, SOP should also be prepared for getting administrative approval from the Chief Secretary Office.

While ensuring that full cooperation will be extended to the Survey of India, Chief Minister said that the State Government will leave no stone unturned in achieving Prime Minister's goal set under SVAMITVA scheme. He said that all the necessary information related to properties and revenue records of the Gram Panchayats and Municipal Corporations should be made available on a single platform.

The Chief Minister was apprised that the work of mapping using drones has been completed in Municipal Corporation of Karnal, 140 villages and Jind and Sohna cities. The work of digitizing the records of the remaining nine Municipal Corporations will be done in the next phase.

Principal Secretary, Development and Panchayat Department, Mr. Sudhir Rajpal informed that by July 27, 2020, the work of line marking of Lal Dora area in the villages will be sent to Survey of India.

After declaring the Village Sirsi in district Karnal free from Lal Dora, now the process of making eight villages of Panchkula free from Lal Dora is in the final stage. He assured the Chief Minister that Haryana will be a leading State in the country for declaring 11 villages in every district as free from Lal Dora under Svamitva scheme by October 2, 2020, as announced by Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi. He said that in 242 villages and three cities including Karnal, Jind and Sohna this work will be completed on a fast pace.

Surveyor General of India, Lt. General Girish Kumar, apprised the Chief Minister that along with line marking, 30 drones would be deployed at different locations.

Chief Secretary Mrs. Keshni Anand Arora, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr. Rajesh Khullar, Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department and Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Mr. Vijai Vardhan, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. V. Umashankar, Deputy Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mrs. Ashima Brar, Director General Urban Local Bodies Department, Mr. Amit Kumar Agarwal Director Town and Country Planning Department, Mr. K. Makarand Pandurang were present.