PLRA DIGITISES RECORDS OF MORE THAN 50 MILLION LANDOWNERS
THE Punjab Land Records Authority (PLRA) has so far digitised and secured the records of more than 50 million landowners. The trainee officers of Civil Services Group 48 Common led by Syed Rehan Haider Kazmi, deputy director IT (information technology), paid a visit to the PLRA head office. Additional director projects of PLRA briefed the officers on the working procedures and performance of PLRA.
The purpose of the visit was to provide information to the officers regarding Computerised Land Records Management and Information System.
The delegation was informed that PLRA was also providing Fard (land document) issuance and transfer services to more than 5 million customers annually from 184 Land Record Centres and Mobile Land Record Centres across Punjab and the provision of services generates billions of rupees annually to the national exchequer.
The delegation was further informed that the Punjab government has taken several steps to facilitate the provision of land record-related services to the consumers, including setting up of 115 Land Record Centres at the Qanoon Goi level, document issuance and transfer services at doorstep through mobile land record centres, issuance of online land documents, computerisation of the registry system in all 143 tehsils, automatic postregistration transfers, and provision of land records related services at the embassies of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Similarly, more than 10,000 saplings have been planted in Land Record Centres under the Green Punjab Campaign.
Later, a senior official of the PLRA informed this scribe that the authority was working expeditiously for the establishment of 115 Qanoon Goi land record centres.
The official further informed that apart from 19 satellite land record centres, approval has also been given to set up satellite centers in all the remaining 134 tehsils where services for issuance of land documents and transfer of land would be provided for the convenience of the people.
“The management of PLRA solved more than 200,000 issues related to Khewat while more than 130,000 interim transfers were verified and more than 171,000 pending transfers were passed to provide better facilities to the people,” he concluded.