KARACHI: In compliance of presidential directives and Supreme Court’s order, the Sindh government has started the project – Land Revenue and Management Information System (LARMIS) – aimed at computerization of land records, it is learnt.
Sources told Customs Today that the project would cost Rs 4.997 billion and is expected to be completed by June 2016.
Under LARMIS, all transactions of land record made in Sindh, pertaining to all districts, during the last five years, have been computerized and made available through operational service centers.
Besides, some 90 percent of the remaining record has also been computerized and is in the process of field verification by the deputy commissioners, sources added.
The service centers which will provide computerized records to people have been planned in each district headquarter while three service centers each at Hyderabad, Tando Mohammad Khan, and Jamshoro have already been made functional, and the remaining will be made functional by December 2015.
The microfilming process, which has become obsolete, will also be replaced by digital scanning in the entire province by December 2015, sources said, adding that a project for the development of digitized maps through introduction of GIS that will be linked with LARMIS is also under development at a cost of Rs 648.86 million.
It will have numerous advantages, including provision of reliable data to help resolve land disputes. Land use analysis through it, will help identify sites and differentiate between the government and private land and protect them from misuse and encroachments, the sources concluded.
