What is cadastral mapping
What can you verify
Importance of cadastral mapping
Updated: Dec 9, 2021
After Islamabad, the cadastral mapping of Lahore will also be live soon. Babar Hayat Tarar, a senior member of the Board of Revenue, said that the cadastral map of Lahore would be ready by the end of December 2021. While the map will be used by real estate buyers and sellers, it will also be used for the identification of state-owned land and mapping plot numbers.
There are two phases of the process: the first phase includes replacing khasra numbers of plots and land with digits (1, 2, 3). All houses in the city will be given unique numbers and each residential or commercial plaza will be given a single number. Separate numbers as identities will be given to flats and shops in these residential and commercial buildings to avoid any discrepancies in the cadastral map.
Once the cadastral mapping of Lahore is complete, the khasra number system will be obsolete and redundant and a similar process will be repeated for other cities of the province.
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The incumbent government of Pakistan under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched another initiative to control land record tampering in the country. The digitized process is called cadastral mapping and will ensure that the land records are maintained properly keeps people’s properties, especially of overseas Pakistanis, safe from land grabbers. the premier has launched cadastral mapping of Pakistan from Islamabad and soon the entire country will be mapped using this process. The digitization of revenue records brings the government a step closer to digitizing old processes that will not only maintain records but also provide ease to the citizens.
What Is Cadastral Mapping?
Cadastral means the value and ownership of the land of an individual. The government is digitizing the process of the old ‘patwari system’ which had a lot of loopholes and could be easily tampered with. The new system will safely mark the ownership, value, tenure, and dimensions of the land owned by an individual and surely defeat the land grabbers.
According to the news sources, the prime minister received a lot of complaints from overseas Pakistanis regarding land grabbing across the country. Cadastral mapping will reduce such cases and people will be able to verify the ownership of plots with just a single click.
Cadastral Mapping Of Pakistan
The task of cadastral mapping of Pakistan was assigned to the Survey of Pakistan which has initially completed digitizing the process for the Islamabad area. As part of the first phase, only revenue records of three metropolises of Pakistan, Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad will be digitized. Cadastral mapping of the remaining two cities will now commence in full swing and once that is done, phase two of the project will be launched in which other urban areas of the country will be focused.
The system for verification of land record is now available to facilitate people of Islamabad and overseas Pakistanis that uses latest and cutting-edge technology. Bringing transparency to land records and a convenient process to verify the ownership will definitely bring more investment in the country from overseas Pakistanis without the fear of their land being illegally grabbed.
What Can You Verify Via Cadastral Mapping?
Buying and selling of land can sometimes be tricky because it may be a disputed land. These issues are very common in small cities and villages of the country. The issue has been vastly raised by the overseas Pakistanis and has also gotten the attention of the prime minister.
Following are the things that you can verify using cadastral mapping in Pakistan.
- Easy Accessibility of Property Rights: People, staff and clients can all easily access the property rights of land and browse any queries or updates about it. This also includes verifying the land ownership during the sale/purchase of a property.
- Tenure Information: People can verify the tenure for which an individual has maintained ownership of the land
- Land Conflicts: Land conflict is one of the biggest problems that the government has faced to date. The cadastral mapping will be used to resolve land conflicts and give the property in the possession of its rightful owner.
Importance Of Cadastral Mapping
Cadastral mapping is a means for people to obtain accurate and reliable information about the legitimacy and ownership of property records. The transparency of records by maintaining digital records is one of the biggest advantages of cadastral mapping and surely, Pakistani citizens will greatly benefit from it.
Since everything is transparent and available online, the property issues related to litigation will be lesser in number. About 50% of the complaints received by the PM are related to land grabbing and the courts will have lesser cases to deal with.
Cadastral mapping also plays in the favour of the state because it helps in improving the calculating the tax on properties as well as its collection mechanism. The mapping will also help people with the valuation of land and identifying the dimensions of a property.
The prime minister has mentioned that overseas Pakistanis are the country’s biggest asset and protecting their interest is not only the job of the state but also works in the favour of the government. Since they are among those investing in the country too, that brings Pakistan foreign investment and they should be fearless of issues like land grabbing. The digitization process will reduce the corrupt practices of land grabbers.
The process of digitization is gradual and eventually, the major processes used by citizens will be digital and provide ease which would otherwise take a long time. With launching cadastral mapping in Pakistan, the country is moving in the right direction and soon people across the country will be able to use this facility.
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