Goa Launches Majhe Ghar Housing Regularisation Scheme

Overview: The Goa government has launched the Majhe Ghar Housing Regularisation Scheme 2025 to legalise houses built on government or communidade land before 2014. Nearly half the state’s population will benefit from this move. The scheme aims to grant legal ownership and boost housing security across Goa.


Goa Launches Majhe Ghar Housing Regularisation Scheme

The Goa government has initiated Housing Regularisation Scheme-Majhe Ghar, an effort to make illegal and irregularly constructed buildings legal in the government or community land. Under the scheme, all qualified homeowners are allowed to pay a set fee in order to regularise their houses as long as the houses were constructed prior to 2014 as it forms the official cut-off year. Minimal land circle rates have also been fixed by the state cabinet among the talukas so that the ratings can be standardised during regularisation. It will be targeted at nearly half the population of Goa, especially those who have been living in such houses throughout their whole life without the right ownership.

Significance of Majhe Ghar Scheme

  • Name of the Scheme: Majhe Ghar (My Home) Housing Regularisation Scheme.

  • Introduction: Government of Goa, 2025.

  • Purpose: To make regularises of unauthorised or irregular houses constructed on government-communicade or privateland.

  • Cut-off Year: It is restricted to structures that have failed to be constructed prior to 2014.

  • The way it should be done: Fixing the circle rate is not a task of the owners, as they are to pay the sum that is always regarded as the fixed in the means of the state government, which is the circle rate.

  • Implementation: Planned by the management of the Town and Country Planning Department(TCP).

  • Benefit: It is expected to close to half the population of Goa granting them rights to legal ownership.

  • Circle rates: In order to offer fairness and transparency, different talaqas will have different rates.

Other Important Scheme of Goa

  • Griha Aadhar Scheme: The scheme allows women as heads of households to receive monthly financial support to maintain a household welfare.

  • Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana (DDSSY): Provides universal health services such as hospitalization and medical costs of all Goan dwellers.

  • Chief Ministers Rojgar Yojana (CMRY): Provides unemployed young educated professionals between the ages of 18 and 50 with loans and subsidies to start their businesses.

  • Goa State Logistics and Warehousing Incentives Scheme: Financial incentive is granted to those who invest in logistics and warehousing infrastructure.

  • ST/SC ICT Empowerment Scheme: Is a scheme offering free IT training and skill development of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste communities.

Conclusion

The Majhe Ghar Housing Regularisation Scheme is a landmark intiative by the Goa state government which finally grants Panegy over 800,000 inhabitants of homes developed prior to 2014 on government or even comunidad land joint lawful ownership and boards. Union Home minister Amit Shah inaugurated it on October 4, 2025 at the Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Indoor stadium, Taleigao in the presence of Goa Chief minister Dr. Pramod Sawant, Goa Union Minister Shripad Naik and Revenue minister Atanasio Monserrate. It is expected that the scheme will help thousands of families, which will increase the stability of their housing and development of the socio-economic situation across the communities of Goa.

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