A progress review meeting of the Board of Revenue (BoR) was held here the other day with the caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Justice (R) Syed Arshad Hussain Shah in the chair.
The meeting took stock of implementation status on the Chief Minister’s directives issued in the previous meeting and reviewed the progress so far made on the project regarding computerization and digitization of land records in the province.
Caretaker provincial minister for Revenue and Finance Ahmed Rasool Bangash, Caretaker Minister for ST&IT Dr. Najeeb Ullah, Senior Member Board of Revenue Ikramullah Khan and other relevant authorities attended the meeting.
Briefing the participants, it was informed that after the Chief Minister’s notice on slow implementation of the land record computerization project, significant improvement has been made in the process of land records computerization adding that during the last one week, 30 more Mauzas have been operationalized in different districts of the province, and thus, total number of operational Mauzas has increased from 2356 to 2386.
Similarly, the number of manual Mauzas has reduced from 813 to 474 within one week. It was further told that during the last 11 days, a total of 31 Mauzas have been made live which include; 10 Mauzas in Bannu, six Mauzas in Abbottabad, seven in Charsadda, three in Peshawar, three in Kohat and one Mauza each in Swat and Shangla.
Whereas, during the same period, a total of 261 Mauzas have been notified for stoppage of manual mutations which include; 15 Mauzas in Haripur, 10 in Swat, 11 in Shangla, 44 in Bannu, 15 in Peshawar, 159 in DI Khan and seven Mauzas in Battagram.
