collected through verification of 48,909 land transfers.
He also highlighted the benefits of the project and said due to this project not only the best and transparent services of land record were being provided to the people but ratio of revenue received under the head of tax had also been increased.
Regarding some issues with the LRMIS, Nadeem Ashraf believed that every new system faces implementation issues in the start and similar was the case with the LRMIS. He said major issues were stakeholders of the system itself as they were also part and parcel of the previous system and they face adaptability issues. Others were some technical and procedural issues which were being fixed.
The SMBR said the LRMIS had broken the monopoly of patwaris and helped people dependence on them for getting land record data in Punjab. We are further trying to settle down the patwaris culture once and for all in the province for which lawyers’ support was crucial, he added.
Nadeem Ashraf urged the lawyer community to give recommendations and suggestions to further improve the service delivery under the LRMIS. He believed that if the LRMIS would not introduce hassle-free mutation services, land transfers, and other land record related services, then the real target of the project would not be achieved.
Punjab Planning and Development Chairman and Project Director LRMIS Irfan Elahi, giving a presentation about the project, said efficient, accountable, secure, accurate land record was available through the LRMIS. He said now there was no fear of burning of records as backup of all the land recorded data, entered in the system from any land record centre, is automatically updated at the head office in Lahore.
The LRMIS is also working to start SMS service for the owners of the property who apply for any transfer or any other property related services, acquired by the applicant from the LRMIS.
Other than this, the LRMIS is also directly linked with NADRA database for the biometric verification of the applicants. He said NADRA is also upgrading its data base which will also be helpful in future for the inheritance property issues as family tree would be automatically checked with NADRA.