Land record of 18 districts of Punjab would be computerised under a project titled 'Land Record Management and Information System' (LRMIS) for which the government would spare an amount of Rs 539.36 million.
This was informed in a meeting presided by Planning and Development Board Punjab Chairman Suleman Ghani, here on Wednesday. Secretary Information Technology (IT) Nazeer Saeed and Chairman IT Board Rizwan Amin Sheikh gave a briefing on the project.
It was further informed in the meeting that criteria for inclusion of district in first phase project included cleanliness and state of maintenance of record, availability of IT trained personnel, volume of record, signing of MoU with BoR and political support from district government. The project was cleared by the provincial development working party (PDWP) after thoroughly examining all aspects of the scheme.
The total area of the province was 205,345 sq km while its population was 80.50 million, out of which 70-percent people were living in rural areas. Computerisation of land record of all 35 districts would cost Rs 1.3 billion. Presently, pilot projects of LRMIS were underway in Raiwind, Lahore since 2002 and LRMIS Gujrat phase-I and II and LRMIS Rahim Yar Khan Phase I and II.
All the mentioned projects were in progress and the lessons and experience of these projects would be used for guidance in the similar projects to be initiated in 18 districts and later in the remaining districts of the province.
The concerned department in a briefing highlighted the problems of the existing system and described it as obsolete, irresponsive and inaccessible revenue machinery resulting in disputes over ownership, weak institutional capacity to address and solve problems and lack of public awareness of their land rights and related procedures.
The authorities said that computerisation of land record would replace the outdated land record maintenance system inherited from the British particularly, Patwari, Kanoongo circles, Tehsil and district level hierarchy. Landowners were 20 million and the number of Patwaris in the province was 8,000.
It was further revealed that the project comprises four components. The first component deals with the business process improvement and institutional capacity enhancement and also included staff training, exploring possibilities of private sector participation in provision of service to the public, business process improvement including legislative and regulations amendments in existing laws and rules for operation of service centres. The second component pertains to development, enhancement and deployment of LRMIS. It would develop Second Generation Turnkey Software. For the purpose four firms were given task of LRMIS Kasur to develop software and in the end the best one would be selected. Development of software for wider application for linkages with automated registration deeds, integration of digital data besides data cleansing, entry and validation were also its important features.
Third component deals with service delivery and information campaigns. It includes automated services on submission of application and issuance of "farad" and mutation in service centres at Kanoongo and Tehsil level.
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