Lahore: Several officials of the World Bank (WB) recently visited the offices of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to review the strategies devised by the Punjab government for the promotion of its ease-of-doing-business initiative for investors, according to news sources.
LDA Director General (DG) Sumair Ahmad Syed met with the delegation and discussed the civic agency’s unified land records management system project. According to the official, this system would keep an efficient inventory of public land through interlinked maps and standardised land records to make it easier for investors to operate.
The DG LDA also revealed that the process to computerise the plot ownership record of four localities in Lahore had been completed. These schemes include Gulberg, Mustafa Town, Avenue-1 and Jubilee Town. He told the WB delegation that property transfers in the said schemes were already being done through an online system. The computerisation of other schemes is currently underway, he added.
The WB delegation is visiting Lahore for 10 days, to witness the measurements taken by the government to identify the detailed scope of projects for the digitisation of Punjab urban land records. The delegation will also review this project’s development objectives, activities and its implementation plan with the Punjab Land Record Authority (PLRA), the Board of Revenue (BoR), the Metropolitan Corporation, the Planning & Development department, and the LDA.
Further, the WB team visited the one-window-operation started by LDA and learned its procedures for property transfers and other jobs linked to various directorates.
The WB mission, at the conclusion of its visit on December 12, will present an aide-mémoire to the government with its recommendation and analysis for the land record upgradation in the urban areas. The mission will also complete its final project documentation in consultation with public offices.
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