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Madhya Pradesh has completed more than 17.09 lakh free registrations of village homes and plots and wants to reach 20 lakh by November 15. Even that target would cover well under half of the 50 lakh to 70 lakh rural landholders the Chief Minister has called eligible.
Under the Mukhyamantri Registry Yojana, the state pays the stamp duty for rural residents who hold a patta for their house or plot but have no registered deed. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav told an event in Ujjain district that ₹10,000 crore has been set aside for it. The drive covers village residential land recorded under the Swamitva survey.
The pace has picked up sharply. Principal Secretary (Revenue) E Ramesh Kumar told a review meeting that 12,87,252 registrations had been done by November 1. On Dhanteras, November 6, ministers, MPs and MLAs were sent to villages to get every eligible owner registered on the spot; the Chief Minister attended at Karua village in Morena. Ujjain district alone has completed 74,791.
The Chief Minister says a registered deed gives a family clear ownership, lets it buy or sell the property and makes it eligible to borrow against it. Whether banks actually lend against these village properties will depend on their own norms.
The arithmetic shows how much remains. Reaching 20 lakh would still leave between 30 lakh and 50 lakh eligible owners waiting for their papers. For a family holding only a patta, that wait decides whether the house it lives in can be sold, divided among heirs or offered as security. The Chief Minister has said the drive will continue beyond this month.
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