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Title: COMPUTERISATION OF LAND RECORDS IN PAKISTAN


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COMPUTERISATION OF LAND RECORDS IN PAKISTAN
  • Research paper written by Muhammad Usman Qazi
    Presented by S.M. Raza (PAKISTAN)

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Information Management in Pakistan
  • INITIATIVE
  • The Government of Pakistan embarked upon a number
    of initiatives around the turn of the century to
    introduce computerization in official business.
  • The most significant initiative is the
    establishment of National Database Registration
    Authority (NADRA)

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National Database Registration Authority
  • INITIATIVE
  • NADRA has been mandated to gather computerize all
    the demographic data about citizens using ICT
    based solutions.
  • NADRA has been successful in issuing more than 50
    Million computerized national identity cards to
    Pakistani adults.

4
E-Government Directorate
  • INITIATIVE
  • With the view to automate the Governments
    internal communication process, Government of
    Pakistan established an E-Government Directorate
    in 2002.
  • Most of the computerization initiatives in
    Pakistan have been designed more for recording,
    controlling and accounting for information rather
    than sharing with people.

5
Information Management The Case of Land Records
  • History
  • The information systems in Pakistans public
    sector are predominantly paper based and
    elaborate filing system is in place from British
    colonial system.
  • Land enjoys a significant place among the assets
    owned by the people in both urban and rural
    context in Pakistan.

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Information Management The Case of Land
Records. Cont
  • History
  • There exist a complex and elaborate system of
    land record management, basically founded by Sher
    Shah Suri (1472-1545 AD) this system was taken to
    scale by the following Mughals and British
    colonial powers.
  • At present all over Pakistan Board of Revenue
    (BOR) is responsible to maintain land records and
    in the field a junior officer called Patwari /
    Tape-Dar is the sole custodian of data.

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Information Management The Case of Land
Records. Cont
  • Issues
  • Pakistans land record system is antiquated and
    raises several concerns including Obsolete and
    Opaque system of land revenue management.
  • There have been disputes over rights and delays
    in courts as lack of credible information
    generates considerable delays in resolving
    pending cases in courts.

8
Introduction of ICT in Land Records Management
  • Initiative
  • Land Record Management Information System Program
    (LRMISP), a project housed in BOR.
  • A number of previous attempts had been made since
    1980s to computerize the land records but they
    all failed because of number of technological and
    political reasons
  • The donor agencies primarily World Bank found it
    useful to reduce the formal and informal
    transaction making the land assets more
    efficiently integrated into the market.

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Land Record Management Information System Program
  • Initiative
  • The manually recorded data was entered into the
    computers in close collaboration with the
    Patwaris and they were trained in operating the
    system as an integral part of project design.
  • After data input and validation, the provincial
    Government through legislation granted legal
    status to the fards produced by the system and
    then abolished the practice of issuance o manual
    fards in the plot area.

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Land Record Management Information System Program
  • Challenges and opportunities
  • The computerization as a stand alone initiative
    is not going to provide even the perception of
    assets security.
  • A procedural and systematic reform is necessary
    to facilitate the computerization to take root.
  • The computerization of records system involves
    large financial costs in terms of procurement of
    hardware, software, human resources as training
    requirements

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Land Record Management Information System Program
  • Challenges and opportunities
  • With expansion of communication infrastructure,
    increased awareness more people can access
    computerized information.
  • Advancement in the field of e-security is making
    more robust options, available to ensure the
    accountability and transparency of citizens
    records management process.

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Land Record Management Information System Program
  • Conclusion
  • A political will behind the concept of empowering
    people through informing them is a necessary
    pre-condition for introduce ICT based systems.
  • A gradual and complete transformation of the
    procedures, protocols and environment of the
    related public sector departments will be needed
    in parallel to automation exercise to ensure the
    social change does not lag too far behind the
    technological change.

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