Lahore: The Punjab Land Revenue Authority (PLRA), in collaboration with the World Bank, will undertake an urban land record digitization project for all cities across the province, news sources reported on July 16. The project will be part of the WB’s Punjab Urban Land Systems Enhancement (PULSE).
The project was purportedly approved by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) at a meeting held in Islamabad. The World Bank will provide USD 150 million to the initiative’s cadastral mapping and land digitisation of the province’s cities. To carry out the project, the PLRA will constitute an implementation unit under the supervision of the Board of Revenue (BoR).
Moreover, the plan asks for the PLRA to create a new land management system with greater security that would be utilised by other government agencies for town planning and city development initiatives.
It is worth noting that the federal government established a state land management system to administer state-owned property in 2021. The government identified PKR 5 trillion worth of unused land under the initiative by producing cadastral mapping of all state-owned land across the country.
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