Lal Dora-Free Haryana:
All villages of Haryana have been made Lal Dora-free. The state government launched a scheme to make villages “Lal Dora-free” on Good Governance Day on 25th December 2019.
- It is a reformative step towards the establishment of clear ownership of property in rural inhabited areas by mapping land parcels using drone technology and providing a ‘Record of Rights’ to village household owners with the issuance of legal ownership cards.
- Field verification of rural and residential areas was conducted in every village, and the mapping of every property falling under ‘Lal Dora’ was closely inspected.
- In some states, the inhabited areas of villages, known as “lal dora” land in Punjab and Haryana and “abadi” in some, were mostly excluded from such surveys.
- Many Indian village communities lacked documented land rights, relying instead on actual possession to claim ownership of land in residential areas.
- Rural property owners cannot use their properties as financial assets to obtain loans from banks without a legal document.
