The World Bank agreed for additional financing of Rs7.5 billion for the financing of computerisation of land record and a contract signing in this regard is expected some time next month.
Representatives from the World Bank, during their previous mission, expressed their satisfaction over the progress and appreciated the professionalism of project staff, an official of the Board of Revenue Punjab said on Saturday.
The project which initially started with financing of Rs2.773 billion from the World Bank for computerisation of land records of 18 districts of Punjab has been expanded to all 36 districts.
According to a careful estimate, data of about 52 million land owners was being computerised. About 25 Land Records Management and Information System (LRMIS) service centres had been established and land record of 545 villages was computerised.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2012.
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