The Dominican Agrarian Institute (IAD) began the work of the National Titling Plan (PNT) of peasant settlements, which aims to provide landowners with the Agrarian reform of that definitive document of ownership.
Darío Castillo Lugo, interim director of the IAD, reported that, with the PTN, whose launch took place in the settlement AC-323 El Socolocated in the province San Pedro de Macorisare intended to be delivered, after several years, around 17,000 property titles throughout the country.
“This is a program social justice. Being able to give peasants and their families the titles that accredit them as formal owners of the land that they have worked and occupied for decades is a debt that the Dominican State is going to begin to pay off,” declared Castillo Lugo.
He explained that with the work on AC-323, located in the municipality of Ramon Santanafrom the aforementioned eastern province, the degree is estimated to be close to 290 plots and other properties.
The official indicated that for the execution of the initiative the IAD hired 40 new collaboratorsbetween surveyors, topographers and lawyers, who, organized into brigades and technical work teams, will be carrying out the tasks of collecting information on the land and the subsequent analysis of the donation and titling files of the properties.
“Neither the topographical and cadastral survey work, nor the titles will have any cost for the farmers, that will be assumed completely by the Dominican government through the IAD,” he stated.
Regularization
The head of the IAD clarified that the PNT will be financed with resources from the institution and those from the Regularization Programthe latter aimed at regularizing irregular occupations of properties of the Dominican Agrarian Institute.
