Guwahati, Dec 22: Over one lakh proposals have so far been approved by the Assam Cabinet to provide relief to landless indigenous families under Mission Basundhara 2.0.
“Providing relief to landless indigenous families, the Cabinet has, on Thursday, given its approval for 946 proposals for settlement of land to landless Indigenous families across Assam,” Cabinet minister Ashok Singhal informed.
Notably, 645 out of the 946 proposals for land settlement are for landless indigenous families; 61 proposals are for conversion of AP to PP land; 16 proposals are for allotment/settlement of land for various educational institutions (government/private); 96 proposals for allotment to various government institutions while 128 proposals were made for allotment to NGOs/societies.
Further, the Cabinet had, on Thursday, decided to settle land in favour of 1,540 landless indigenous landless families in both urban and rural areas of 13 districts of the state under Mission Basundhara 2.0.
The districts where the land settlement will be made are Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Charaideo, Darrang, Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Biswanath, Hojai, Nalbari, Bongaigaon, Goalpara and Bajali.
On the other hand, the Cabinet gave its approval to 197 proposals for de-reservation of VGR (village grazing reserve)/PGR (professional grazing reserve) land and reservation of equivalent quantum of land as VGR/PGR for settlement to landless indigenous families as received from the district commissioners of Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Bongaigaon, Golaghat, Jorhat, Biswanath and Charaideo.
Of the district-wise proposals accepted, 110 are from Bongaigaon, 52 from Sonitpur, 23 from Biswanath, six from Jorhat, four from Lakhimpur and one each from Charaideo and Golaghat districts.
It may be mentioned that Mission Basundhara 2.0 was launched in November 2022, under which eight land-related services would be provided to people in the digital mode.
“Mission Basundhara 2.0 is for the indigenous people and is based on self-certification, which will state that the claimant has been residing on the land for the last three generations,” Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said at the launch.
“Through Mission Basundhara-1, issues of people which were pending resolution at the offices of the circle officers were sought to be resolved. Mission Basundhara-1 was able to provide relief and benefits to more than six lakh people,” Sarma said.
A total of eight lakh applications were received during the operation of Mission Basundhara-1.