Land disputes: Owners complain about missing record

People also grumble about non-professional attitude of land officials.

RAWALPINDI: While the Punjab government has spent billions of rupees on computerisation of land record, land owners continue to face problems at the hands of officials of the Computerised Land Record Centre (CLRC) in Rawat.

People visiting the CLRC complained about non-professional attitude of officials and missing land records.

Rawalpindi Commissioner Azmat Mahmood and Additional Commissioner (Coordination) Tariq Mahmood had to face a barrage of complaints from the public when they visited the centre on Tuesday. Most complaints were related to bad attitude of the CLRC officials and missing land records.

Fazal Hussain, who hailed from Dhamial, complained that he had applied for revenue land record certificate (fard) for a piece of land in 2001 but the incharge and other staff at the centre had been humiliating him and were not issuing him the required document. Hussain also said that earlier the land record centre officials issued him fard full of errors.

When the additional commissioner sought explanation from Naib Tehsildar Naseer Aulakh, who after brief checking of the relevant record, held computer operator Adnan Baig responsible for creating problems for the complainant.

The additional commissioner summoned CLRC Incharge Hussain and Baig to his office on Wednesday for further inquiry.

Meanwhile, the Rawalpindi commissioner on Wednesday directed the Additional District Collector Revenue (ADCR) to speed up the process of completion of settlement record of 35 revenue estates at the earliest.

The settlement record of revenue estates were to be handed over to the Islamabad Capital Territory Administration.

“The work on settlement record should be completed by September 30,” the commissioner said while chairing a meeting at his office.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 16^th, 2016.