GUWAHATI (Assam, India): Land ownership certificates were given to a total of 44,700 landless Indigenous families in the Indian state of Assam under the governments “Mission Basundhara” scheme.
The scheme aims to resolve longstanding land ownership and land record issues across the state. The main event was held at Deuri Beel in Dhemaji district, where Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched the third phase of the scheme and handed over the ownership certificates to beneficiaries from different parts of the state.
The scheme was launched in 2021 to address outdated and fragmented land records that have long caused disputes and uncertainty. The SVAMITVA scheme, which is a central government program to survey and map rural properties, played a significant role in enabling the current round of settlements, with surveys completed in villages that had not been surveyed earlier. This helped issue the certificates. Forest rights under the Forest Rights Act of 2006 were also granted to eligible residents of reserved forests in areas including Subansiri and Jiadhal. The first phase of the scheme focused on administrative modernization and online services, while the second phase focused on land rights for traditional occupants of government land.
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