What is Hakku Patra?

What is Hakku Patra?

• The word ‘Hakku’ means “the right”, and ‘Patra’ means a “paper” or “document”.
• It is a legal document that states an individual's rightful inheritance of a property.
• It is issued to the nation's underprivileged section, including scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, urban slum dwellers, handicapped, and other disadvantaged populations.
• In most cases, the land on which the Hakku Patra is issued is government-owned with a specific set of conditions attached. 

Hakku Patra distribution drive:

• It is a part of the Ambedkar Rural Housing Scheme of Karnataka.
• Under this, the government offers free registration of Hakku Patra land in the beneficiary's name. 
• Any house built on the Hakku Patra land should be used as the beneficiary’s house and not for rental purposes.  

Benefits of Hakku Patra:

• It makes you the legitimate owner of your land or property by giving an up-to-date and official record of who owns the land.
• It is a state-guaranteed document.
• The title deeds enable owners to avail of bank loans with the said document. 
• Hakku Patra registration resolves all types of disputes regarding the ownership or rights over the land. 
• The document helps in preventing any encroachment via trespassing on the boundaries.

 

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Q1) What is Ambedkar Rural Housing Scheme?

Under this scheme government-provided houses to the economically weaker sections living in the state at low cost. The benefit of this scheme will be available only to the people living in Karnataka

Source: PM distributes title deeds (hakku patra) to about fifty thousand beneficiaries of newly declared revenue villages in Kalaburagi, Karnataka