Service provision: ‘Computerisation of land records top priority’

Minister says officials should conduct surprise visits of land record centres to monitor them.

BAHAWALPUR:

Provincial Minister for Prisons Chaudhry Abdul Waheed Arain said on Thursday that computerisation of land records was a top priority of the government.

Presiding over a meeting at the district coordination officer’s (DCO) office in Bahwalpur, he said land records across the Punjab would be linked with the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) for a more transparent system.

The provincial minister directed the assistant commissioners and the land record centre officials in the district to constitute a committee in the district for addressing public complaints.

He said district officials including parliamentarians should conduct surprise visits of land record centres to monitor them.

Provincial Minister for Prisons Chaudhry Abdul Waheed Arain said the people of Bahawalpur would soon benefit from the provincial government’s decision to eliminate patwari culture and computerise land records.

District Land Centre Service Incharge Shahzeb Khan Babar said 92 per cent of the revenue records in Bahawalpur district had been computerised.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 4^th, 2014.