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Bodoland Council Launches Mission Bwiswmuthi 2.0 to Grant Land Rights to 47,000 Indigenous Families

Expanding its digital portal to 20 services, the initiative aims to streamline land settlement for occupants with the goal of establishing tenure security in Bodoland.

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Mission Bwiswmuthi 2.0
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Overview

  • The Bodoland Territorial Council unveiled Mission Bwiswmuthi 2.0 on June 15 in Baksa district, with Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya distributing the first land allotment certificates.
  • The upgraded portal offers 20 land and revenue services—six more than the first edition—including settlement of government land, professional and village grazing reserves.
  • Some 47,000 indigenous landless families will benefit, among them 9,000 small tea growers and rubber farmers who have long lacked formal tenure.
  • Under Mission Bwiswmuthi 1.0, the council digitized records, surveyed non-cadastral border villages by drone and disposed of 164,000 out of 190,000 applications.
  • The reforms build on the 2020 BTR peace accord and amended Sixth Schedule provisions, bolstering economic upliftment and aligning with India’s Vision 2047.