Speedy digitisation of land record ordered

CM orders completion of Peshawar project in three months

PESHAWAR:

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the Board of Revenue (BoR) to expedite the computerisation of land record process in the province with special focus on completing the process in the provincial capital Peshawar within the next three months.

In order to ensure easy access of public to all basic services, the chief minister also ordered steps for establishment of service delivery centres at sub division level in every district with the aim to ensure issuance of fard and other estate relevant documents in minimum possible time.

He was chairing a performance review meeting of BoR.

While briefing the meeting about progress made by the board, it was revealed that, first of its kind e-stamp paper initiative has been formally launched in the province which is a land mark achievement of the provincial government towards e-governance.

E-stamp paper will prove an important step in preventing land disputes, forgery of documents and issuance of backdated stamp papers. Besides, this initiative will also help in the determination of actual costs of land and minimize the administrative costs of printing stamp papers.

It was further revealed that for the first time in the history of the province, geographic information system lab is being established while GIS based settlement has been introduced in different districts of K-P.

The participants were informed that for public facilitation, so far 48 service delivery centres have been established and made operational that are providing estate related services to people through one window operation while 10 more service delivery centres will be established and functionalized by the end of current financial year.

As per instructions of the provincial government, issuance of fard through service delivery centres is being ensured with in 30 minutes and in revenue estates, which are not yet digitally operationalised, fard is being issued within two days.

In addition to this, BoR has retrieved 8,350 kanals of state land from land grabbers with a market value of Rs118.344 billion.

Moreover, for the first time female quota has been allocated in patwar cadre and first batch of 100 patwar candidates has passed out whereas second batch of 120 patwar candidates has been selected for training in Revenue Academy.

Furthermore, for issuance of succession certificate through NADRA, Succession Act and Rules 2021 have been enacted.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 23^rd, 2022.