The Quetta Administration is committed to degital-ize the land record in order to secure the land re-cords digitally and to ensure transparency and ac-countability in land management and real estate transactions. This was told by Commissioner Quetta Division Muhamad Hamza Shafaqaat while chairing a meeting to review the progress of digitalization of land records and the work of the Periodical Record of Land Rights (fard or jamabandi).
The Commissioner expressed satisfaction over the progress made so far in Jamabandi work and said that action should be taken against patwaris on their heedlessness and warning should be issued to them. Additional Commissioner Quetta Division Subhan Salim Dashti, Assistant Commissioner Revenue Quetta Division Hananif Kibzai, Assistant Commis-sioner Political Quetta Division Kaleemullah, Assis-tant Deputy Commissioner Revenue Quetta Mu-hammad Riaz, besides Sub-Registrar, Joint Sub-Registrar, Settlement Officer and Tehsildars, Dep-uty Tehsildars, Qanogu and Patwaris were present in the meeting.
During the meeting, all the Tehsildars presented their reports regarding the progress in the comput-erization of land records and Jamabandi. He ordered for the recruitment of 15 Patwaris on adhoc basis and the transfer of 15 Patwaris from the settlement to speed up the Jamabandi work.
The Commissioner warned that action should be taken against the Patwaris over dereliction of duty in the jamabandi work and hand over the jamabandi work, to hand over the jamabandi to the concerned officers for verification of the wards which have been completed by IT.
