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ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: The first phase of computerisation of land records in the federal capital was launched on Thursday and the Revenue Centre Bara Kahu issued computerised fard (attested copy of land records) to owners in Mauza Rehra and Jandala free of cost.
The revenue centre’s operation was launched by the deputy commissioner Islamabad, Ahmed Ali, who directed the relevant staff and the patwaris (revenue officers) to ensure that land record of all 100 Mauza (administrative unit of land) in Islamabad were computerised by the end of January 2014.
Since the digital copy of land deeds has no legal value, the revenue department of Islamabad administration is issuing two fard to the owners: the traditional handwritten record as well as the new digital fard.
“The land revenue act has the description of fard but many things have now changed. We have asked the interior ministry to amend the law, which is expected to be in place by January 2014,” Mr Ali said while talking to Dawn.
“After the amendments in the law are approved and the digital fard becomes legally valid, the manual fard would not be issued in Islamabad,” he said. He added that the charges for obtaining the fard would remain the same.
The deputy commissioner said issuing digital fard along with the traditional manual fard would help train the relevant staff in the modern technical field and would overcome any shortcomings in the system.
He said the computerised fard have several modern features to help reduce frauds and forgeries.
They have a printed photograph of the land’s owner and in case of sale or purchase, the photograph of the buyer will be printed on the fard.
Furthermore, the digital fard also have the CNIC (Computerised National Identity Card) number of the owner and biometric security features.
Similarly, the data and the software being used are in Urdu, and tampering the records will not be easy as all changes are shown on the computer screen.
The computerisation of records would reduce the massive discretionary powers enjoyed by the patwaris.
According to the deputy commissioner, the land records of two Mauza (Rehra and Jandala) in Islamabad had been computerised dating back to 1956, while the computerisation process of land for 10 other Mauza would be completed by the end of August. An additional 20 Mauza would be computerised next month, he added.
The long term plan of the administration is to place all land records online so that issues related to land frauds and occupations are reduced.
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: The first phase of computerisation of land records in the federal capital was launched on Thursday and the Revenue Centre Bara Kahu issued computerised fard (attested copy of land records) to owners in Mauza Rehra and Jandala free of cost.
The revenue centre’s operation was launched by the deputy commissioner Islamabad, Ahmed Ali, who directed the relevant staff and the patwaris (revenue officers) to ensure that land record of all 100 Mauza (administrative unit of land) in Islamabad were computerised by the end of January 2014.
Since the digital copy of land deeds has no legal value, the revenue department of Islamabad administration is issuing two fard to the owners: the traditional handwritten record as well as the new digital fard.
“The land revenue act has the description of fard but many things have now changed. We have asked the interior ministry to amend the law, which is expected to be in place by January 2014,” Mr Ali said while talking to Dawn.
“After the amendments in the law are approved and the digital fard becomes legally valid, the manual fard would not be issued in Islamabad,” he said. He added that the charges for obtaining the fard would remain the same.
The deputy commissioner said issuing digital fard along with the traditional manual fard would help train the relevant staff in the modern technical field and would overcome any shortcomings in the system.
He said the computerised fard have several modern features to help reduce frauds and forgeries.
They have a printed photograph of the land’s owner and in case of sale or purchase, the photograph of the buyer will be printed on the fard.
Furthermore, the digital fard also have the CNIC (Computerised National Identity Card) number of the owner and biometric security features.
Similarly, the data and the software being used are in Urdu, and tampering the records will not be easy as all changes are shown on the computer screen.
The computerisation of records would reduce the massive discretionary powers enjoyed by the patwaris.
According to the deputy commissioner, the land records of two Mauza (Rehra and Jandala) in Islamabad had been computerised dating back to 1956, while the computerisation process of land for 10 other Mauza would be completed by the end of August. An additional 20 Mauza would be computerised next month, he added.
The long term plan of the administration is to place all land records online so that issues related to land frauds and occupations are reduced.
