LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has directed the department concerned to undertake essential steps for the digitalisation of land record.

She was presiding over a meeting on the Board of Revenue reforms here on Saturday in which she was given a briefing on the Punjab Urban Land Systems Enhancement (PULSE).

The chief minister directed the officials to ensure collaboration among relevant departments during the land digitalisation process.

The meeting was informed that the land record digitisation was being undertaken with the cooperation of the World Bank.

The Punjab Land Record Authority and Management of Estate Land gave a briefing about the business plan affairs. The owner-based digitalisation of all neighbourhoods (mouzas) would be carried out in Punjab. The revenue system will be made transparent through partition of land and documentation.

The government will declare a clear property from every aspect as green while the lands having issues will be declared as blue and red, the meeting was informed. FARD, ownership and land transfer system would also be simplified after undertaking the digitalisation process.

Overseas property transfer service for the overseas Pakistanis will be reviewed and Fard, Mutation, E-Girdawari and registration facilities will be provided in the Overseas Property Transfer Service.

Published in Dawn, May 19th, 2024