Lahore: The Punjab Land Record Authority was formally inaugurated yesterday with the launch of a tier-3 data centre for computerised land records at the Arfa Kareem Technology Park in Lahore.
Under this project, land record centres are operational in 143 tehsils of the province where record of 55 million rural properties has been secured by computerisation.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the digitalisation of land records would help abolish the ‘patwari culture’.
“This system will address all land-related problems under one roof,” he believed.
He added the PML-N government laid the foundation of this system back in 1997 but the military coup in 1999 halted the project.
The computerisation of land records aims to put an end to land-related feuds, forgery of documents to claim ownership of someone else’s property and corruption. A backup system has been established in Rawalpindi to ensure the protection of land record files.
