Sindh digitises all land record, offers online services

New system will secure land ownership record, prevent manipulation

KARACHI:

The government of Sindh has digitised all land record and maps of all estates of SITE Limited and Sindh Small Industries Corporation all over the province including Karachi, Nooriabad, Hyderabad, Kotri and Sukkur and now all services including no-objection certificates, permissions and transfers will be available online.

Caretaker Minister for Revenue, Industries and Commerce Mohammad Younus Dagha on Friday launched the digitisation and online services project for the Industries Department, called E-services Sindh mobile app, in the presence of industrialists, diplomats and government officials.

Now, applicants will not have to come to government offices or wait for action on their applications indefinitely. The new system fixes time limits on officials for the disposal of applications.

The two departments that have developed the app and are offering their services online are the Board of Revenue and the Industries Department. Dagha called it a historical day for governance in Sindh.

Under E-services, the monitoring system will help in performance accountability of officials and improve the ease of doing business. The system provides for online applications as well as delivery of documents through courier services, eliminating human interaction in the entire process.

Dagha said that Sindh had taken a big leap forward by implementing the modern e-governance system in the Industries Department, which would pave the way for other departments to follow.

E-services will reduce the unnecessary hassle for the applicants taking rounds of government offices for petty works.

Dagha said that the most important features of the system were security of government record, especially the land ownership record, which had become prone to manipulation and tampering.

Now, the record will be available online, bringing transparency and security of record to these organisations.

He said the system would require some time to mature and hoped that the elected government would further strengthen and improve it in the coming months. He disclosed that E-services would also be launched in all offices of the Revenue Department in the coming days. Trade Development Authority CEO Zubair Motiwala termed it a much-awaited step for making improvement in the investment environment of the province.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 16^th, 2023.

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