- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (6) praised the liberalised drone policy of the country and said it will benefit those living in the country’s remote areas.
“Recently, many policy decisions were taken so that farmers, patients, people living in remote areas get maximum benefits from drone technology,” Modi said during a virtual interaction with the beneficiaries of the Svamitva scheme from the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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“A large number of modern drones are made in India itself, in this also India should be self-reliant, for this PLI scheme has also been announced,” he said.
He also said that the liberalised drone policy will take India’s villages to new heights.
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“It is very important to remove country’s villages, village property, land and house records from uncertainty and mistrust. That is why PM Swamitva scheme is going to become a huge strength of our brothers and sisters in the village,” he said.
He also lauded the efforts of the villages for their work during the coronavirus pandemic, saying, “We have also seen during the Corona period how the villages of India worked together on one goal, fought this pandemic with great vigilance.”
Earlier, Modi distributed e-property cards to 171,000 beneficiaries under the Svamitva scheme via video conferencing.
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is also from Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, was also present during the event.
Svamitva is a Central Sector Scheme of India’s ministry of panchayati raj that aims to provide property rights to the residents of rural areas.
The scheme will pave the way for using the property as a financial asset by villagers for taking loans and other financial benefits, like in the urban areas.
The scheme looks to demarcate inhabited lands in rural areas through the latest surveying drone technology. It has also boosted the ecosystem of drone manufacturing in the country, the prime minister’s office said.
India’s civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is from Madhya Pradesh, tweeted about Modi’s event.
देश के यशस्वी प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी द्वारा स्वामित्व योजना के अंतर्गत मध्य प्रदेश के 19 जिलों के 3,000 ग्रामों में भूमि अधिकार अभिलेख का वितरण एवं हितग्राहियों से वर्चुअल संवाद के दौरान। pic.twitter.com/nEX9pzTZF2
— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) October 6, 2021
