Lahore: The Board of Revenue (BoR)’s plan to complete Lahore’s cadastral map by the end of December 2021 has been delayed for another six months, news sources reported. The new deadline for completion has been set for June 2022.
Reportedly, the BoR has previously said that the reconciliation of urban properties of the city will be completed by December, but the deadline could not be met due to the ‘snail-pace surveys’ and the delays in identification of the land under the encroachers. It was highlighted that the large chunks of state land are still in possession of land grabbers and they can only be retrieved through inch-by-inch measurement of urban land parcels. To date, BoR has announced the retrieval of 1,870,000 acres of rural land across Punjab. Pertaining to this latest development, Senior Member Board of Revenue (SMBR) Babar Hayat Tarar said that the aerial survey of the city has been conducted with the help of the Pakistan Army while the actual demarcation and the metes-and-bounds of the city will be available for the citizens once on ground surveys are complete.
He said that with the completion of the cadastral map, the government will be able to retrieve state land from encroachers. It is important to note that the federal government has initiated the cadastral mapping process of all the major cities in Pakistan. The project is being conducted for the first time in Pakistan using the latest satellite and aerial mapping using drones.
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