All Haryana villages now free of Lal Dora, claims CM Manohar Lal Khattar

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar claimed on Saturday that more than three years after Karnal district’s Sirsi, all the state’s villages were now free of Lal Dora, and of the 25.17 lakh property cards finalised in 6,260 villages, 24.51 lakh had been delivered along with 4.62 lakh property registrations in 3,613 villages.
The CM audioconferenced with the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Svamitva Yojana.The campaign of making the villages free of Lal Dora was launched on Good Governance Day (December 25) in 2019, and within a month, on Republic Day in 2020, Sirsi had become the first to benefit. The Svamitva Yojana was launched on April 24, 2020.
Khattar said: “Earlier, there was no revenue record of property in the villages under Lal Dora. There was no registry at the time of buying or selling a house or a plot. Bank loans were not available against this property, while ownership disputes were common.”
He said this work of abolishing Lal Dora had taken field verification of crop and residential land in every village along with the mapping of every property to give each asset a unique identity. An accurate record of land and property will help settle ownership disputes and discourage encroached upon streets and panchayat land.
Khattar said the land record system had been modernised, while online land transfers had eliminated the need for making multiple rounds to the government office for a copy of the ‘farad’.
The CM said: “We have abolished the remand tradition for faster settlement of farmers’ land disputes to keep them from frequenting the revenue courts. This also reduces the scope of corruption. The land dispute cases will not linger for generations.”
He said: “The system of e-registration shortens the waiting time for registration and other tehsil works. Since February 3, 2015, people can book an advance appointment for registry.”
The state government had built 1,856 village secretariats under the ‘Gram Sachivalaya’ scheme to make all village-level officers sit under one roof, while optical fibre cable had been laid in 6,188 villages for the facility of faster internet and 5,953 panchayats had wi-fi hotspots now as a result of that step, the CM said on the occasion.