The Rajasthan Revenue Department has launched a statewide special campaign to record rural cremation-ground land in the revenue records and to settle long-standing disputes over such land. District collectors have been directed to physically verify cremation-ground land in villages and enter it in the revenue records (jamabandi), so that these sites gain a clear, documented legal status.
A key focus of the drive is access. Where cremation grounds have no path leading to them, the administration has been asked to ensure a public road to every such site; where needed, new roads will be opened and handed over to the panchayats. This is intended to end situations where villagers cannot reach a cremation ground because it is landlocked by private holdings.
The department has also directed that the demarcation, measurement and revenue-record entry of cremation-ground land be completed during the rural service camps (rajasva shivir) held in villages. Carrying out this work at the camps allows officials, records and villagers to be present together, speeding up on-the-spot resolution.
Where a village does not have enough land reserved for a cremation ground, the campaign provides that revenue (government) land be reserved and allotted for the purpose. The move addresses a long-neglected but sensitive civic need in rural Rajasthan, giving cremation grounds a documented place in land records, assured access and, where lacking, dedicated land, which reduces recurring local disputes and eases revenue administration at the village level.