Lahore: The Government of Punjab has formed a high-level committee to digitise urban land record, reported a news source. The directives for the formation of the committee were issued by Punjab Chief Secretary Yousaf Naseem Khokhar.
The committee will be headed by Punjab Planning and Development Board chairman. Its members will include senior officials from the Board of Revenue, Punjab Finance Ministry, Housing Ministry, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering, Planning and Development Board, Local Government, Lahore Development Authority, and Punjab Land Record Authority.
The committee will hold its first meeting on Friday to discuss its recommendations, which will later be presented to the provincial government. Previously, several sources from Punjab Land Record Authority had conveyed that land records of urban areas would be computerised soon. Till date, the computerisation of provincial rural land records has been completed.
To improve the land record system in the province, Punjab Revenue Department took major steps in the past – of which the issuance of fard by various franchises of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is a notable example.
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