The Vasundhara scheme, which aims at providing land to homesteadless families on free of premium basis, has failed to fulfil its objective in the district. So far, only 288 homesteadless families have received land under the scheme.
Acute shortage of suitable land and negligence on the part of revenue officials have led to slow progress of the scheme in the district. Though the district administration had identified 674 people in 2017-18, land was provided to 141.
This year, 533 beneficiaries have been identified of which 147 have received their land. Now, the process is on to provide homestead land to 366 families, sources said. Earlier, there was a provision to provide 10 decimal of Government land to the landless people for homestead purpose and later, it was revised to four decimal. The decision to cut down on the size was taken in view of the scarcity of suitable land, sources added.