Staff Reporter
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presiding over a first-ever r high level Ease of Doing Business Reforms Council has directed Board of Revenue (BoR) to reduce registration and transfer of property period from 149 days to six days by empowering investors, people to apply on line.
“I am fed up with sub-registrar offices so either correct them or pack them up I’ll hand over the registration work to private sector,” he said. The meeting was attended by leading businessperson, including World Bank representative Amjad Bashir, CEO Hubco Khalid Mansoor, President FPCCI Mian Amjad Nisar, President KCCI Agha Shuhab Ahmed, President OICCI Shahzad Dada, President ABAD, CEO Sindh Health Care Dr Minhaj Kidwai, Chairman Amreli Steel, Chairman Gul Ahmed Mohammad Bashir, President Pasha Ms Jehan Ara. The chief minister was assisted by Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, Chairman P&D M. Waseem and PS to CM Sajid Jamal Abro. The chief minister specially called the heads of 10 different government agencies such as CEO KE Syed Monis Abdullah, MD KWSB Asadullah Khan, DG EPA, DG Food authority, representative of SBCA, Commissioner SESSI, Commissioner Karachi and other concerned. The chief minister said that he purpose of inviting all of you [leading businessmen and heads of their organiosation] to given your input so that business environment could be improved and made upto mark. “I have to bring a lot of investment in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana, Mirpurkhas and Thatta regions,” he said and added ‘therefore, I’ll drastic measures to facilitate investors,” he said.
The SMBR admitted that registration of property and its transfer take 149 days to six months, therefore he would launch an online application where people would be able to apply for registration and the system would automatically generate transfer or registration. At this the chief minister directed him to make it from six months to six days and said he was going to launch the on0line application by the end of February.
Shah directed the SMBR to outsource Board of Revenue’s call center which has failed to redress public complaints. “We need efficient system and manpower, otherwise ask them to pack up,” he directed SMBR. The chief minister decided and directed the KWSB and SEPA to use SWF portals for NOCs and include all the six deputy commissioners officer in the SWF portals. He directed Investment department to assist SSGC to sign up the SWF Portal.
It was pointed out that KMC, KDA and MDA were using the portal and the chief secretary was directed to ask the Lyari Development Authority to sing up Portal latest by June 30.
