CM Siddaramaiah to give away title deeds to one lakh people on Feb 13 at Haveri as Cong regime completes 1000 days in office

Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will give home ownership deeds to one lakh people at a public event at Haveri on February 13 as the Congress regime celebrates completion of 1000 days in office.

The campaign was kickstarted in May last year by AICC leader Rahul Gandhi, who launched distribution of home ownership deeds to 1,11,111 people at an event in Hospet, fulfilling a pledge he had made during a visit to Karnataka in 2015.

These are nomadic, semi-nomadic and other rural farming communities who have had settlements on public or private lands, which were not recorded as villages. They will now be recognized as revenue villages.


Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, who is leading the campaign, addressed deputy commissioners through videoconferencing on Thursday and asked them to keep all relevant records and title deeds ready in the next one week of the revenue villages.

“These people are a vulnerable segment of the society, living in their houses for decades with no solution to uncertainty in their lives. We are giving them title deeds which will bring them certainty to what matters the most to them – their homes,” Gowda told ET.

The government would be giving the title deeds visiting their doorsteps without inviting or expecting a single application from them, the revenue minister said. The government estimates four lakh people to benefit from the February 13 title distribution event.

During his first stint as CM, Siddaramaiah, following up on Gandhi’s pledge, had the law amended in 2017 per recommendations of a task force. The amendment declared these hamlets to be “revenue villages” and provided for the issue of title documents to individual houses, the revenue minister said. Since the Congress came to power in 2023, the revenue department took it up as a major campaign and is determined to complete the exercise.

In the six years since the amendment to the law (during the previous BJP reign) the government had given title deeds to only 1.08 families. The revenue department has been identifying similar settlements to complete the exercise, Gowda said.

The title documents the government has been issuing are digital. This would prevent difficulties arising from lost, damaged, tampered physical-paper records.