PLRA would soon start computerization of urban land

Lahore : Punjab Land Records Authority would soon start computerization of urban land record with the prior approval of committed formed under Planning and Development Department, Director General Punjab Land Records Authority Captain® Zafar Iqbal said.

He expressed these views while addressing the media during Doing Business Reforms Exhibition. The 7 member committee formed in this regard was headed by Chairman P&D.

The members of committee included Senior Member Board of Revenue, DG PLRA, member Urban Unit, Secretary P& D, Secretary Housing and Secretary Local Government. PLRA, would by 15 April this year also start mailing registry to the house addresses of the property owners.

For this purpose, the project ‘Register of deeds’ was initiated in September 2016. The project Registry of Deeds (RoD) is for computerization of manual record of Sub Registrar, which would be subsequently linked with all 151 Arazi Record Centers.

Under RoD project over 10 million files were scanned to computerize the record. This project has successfully reduced property mutation time from 56 day to 18 days, providing ease and conveniences to the masses. In addition to that seven steps earlier required for property mutation have also been reduced to four steps.

It’s worth mentioning here that PLRA has already successfully computerized land record of more than 2300 revenue states of Punjab, covering almost all the rural areas of the province. Computerization of land record of the province has greatly improved business index for foreign investment and for ease of doing business, according to the recent Word Bank report.
PLRA during Doing Business Reforms Exhibition organized by Planning and Development Department, real time presentation of property registration process and demonstrated RoD web portal.
The exhibition was attended by Minister for Finance Ayesha Ghaus Pasha, Chairman P&D Board Jahanzeb Khan, Secretory P&D Iftakhar Ali Saho, President Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industries Malik Tahir Rasheed, Country Director World Bank Patchamuthu Illangovan and officer from Trade & Industries Board, Planning Board and IT board.

For providing further connivances to public, Punjab Land Record Authority has recently launch Express Counters in Faisalabad and Gujranwala. These Express counter would allow the citizens to pre book their turn at the ARCs. Express Counters will be launched at Divisional Level throughout the province in Punjab. Other than these two cities, these Express Counters would be setup at Lahore, Multan, DG Khan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha, Rawalpindi and Sahiwal soon.

To avail the service from Express Counters, citizens can call Punjab Land Record Authority Help Line to obtain advance booking.