PLRA to set up rural centres
Punjab Land Record Authority (PLRA) have established 100 satellite and 152 Land Record Centres (LRC) across the province after the approval of Land Record Authority Act 2017.
According to PLRA officials, the authority was offering 38 types of ownership and 48 types of mutation documents through its different centres across the province.
The authority would increase capacity of land record centres to 700 by establishing rural centres in different areas.
The authority had also established 20 mobile land record centres to facilitate citizens at their door steps. Sources added that facility of fardaat and others were also being offered to citizens through 2300 E-Sahulat Centres of NADRA and 10 E-Khidmat centres across the province.
The authority had also provided facility of PRLA at consulate offices in US, Saudi Arabia, UAE and other 14 countries to facilitate Pakistanis living abroad.
The PRLA offering different facilities to over 5.5 million farmers of the province while over six million errors had been resolved and record had been made computerised, PRLA officials added.
PRLA was facilitating people during the Covid-19 as more than 9,000 people were being issued fardaat through pre-appointment system. The PRLA also extended facilities for farmers by giving access to 20 banks to land record centre in order to bring ease for farmers in getting loan from banks, sources further said.
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Speaking to APP on Sunday, Multan Saddar Land Record Centre Incharge Hafiz Ziaul Rehman said that the centre had generated revenue of over Rs400,000 through issuing 2,646 fardaat to people during the past month while it generated revenue of over Rs9.7 million during the same period.
He said that revenue of over Rs200,000 had also been generated by the newly established e-khidmat centre through issuing 1,023 fardaat during the past month. He added that there were total 278 hamlets under the Land Record Centre out of which record of 253 had been made online while remaining would be made computerised soon.
He disclosed that two sub-centres had been established in Makhdoom Rasheed and Laar areas to offer facilities to the local people instead of visiting Multan office.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 12th, 2021.