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PITB empowers Punjab Overseas Pakistanis Commission

Lahore. DG (e-Governance) Sajid Latif briefing the audiences on e-Stamping system. (01-7-15).Lahore: An orientation session web & SMS based verification of stamp papers was conducted by the team of Punjab Information Technology Board on with the various real estate stakeholders  and employees of Defense Housing Authority (DHA) Lahore on Wednesday here.

The PITB team was headed by Director General (e-Governance) Sajid Latif who said that the e-Stamping was a flagship project of the Punjab Government being executed by PITB. He said that it was a step towards transparent property and business transactions in Punjab. He said “the online system of stamp papers issuance will greatly reduce fraudulent practices in property transactions. The system governed by the PITB is functional in Lahore now and it will maintain a database of all the stamp papers issued in the province in future. Citizens can verify their property records online or through an SMS. Housing societies can verify the property documents especially the stamp papers in the online system”. Sajid Latif revealed that in future, the Chairman PITB, Dr Umar Saif, also envisions to introduce plastic money (credit cards) based stamp duty payments instead of cash.     The participants of the workshop were briefed about the use of e-Stamping system with focus on the verification and purchasing of the stamp papers. He also replied the questions of different participants who showed keen interest in the modern system committed to mitigate their miseries and difficulties in this regard.

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