Dr Firdous expresses satisfaction over performance of land record centres.

SIALKOT -- Special Assistant to Chief Minister (SACM) on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that performance of all 115 land record centres and 20 mobile land centres was satisfactory in Punjab.

Talking to the media at a land record centre at Kobey Chak near here on Saturday, she said that hectic efforts were under way to enhance capacity of these centres to provide maximum relief to the public through the computerised land record centres under the direct supervision of Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar. She said that the government would expand the the land revenue computerization network to union council level across Punjab for facilitating people.

She said the government was abolishing the traditional patwar system in Punjab and was bringing village officer system. She said that the government would soon establish a Revenue Academy at Lahore for the training of the Revenue staff soon.

She said that the Sharif brothers always supported qabza mafia during their tenure.

She said that the Board of Revenue Punjab and Federal Board of Revenue were sharing their data with each other for giving relief to the public under a data-sharing agreement.

She said that the system of properties' registration had been computerised in 100 tehsils of Punjab, as the provincial government had started work for printing and upgrading the 'Jama Bandi'.

Dr Firdous said that 140,000 acres of land had yet been retrieved from the qabza mafia across Punjab during the last two years by the government. The worth of the retrieved land was Rs 1000 billion, she added.

She said that the land transfer procedure had been made easy at banks for farmers, enabling them to get the 'Fard' of their lands easily under the 'One Window Operation', to get agricultural loans as well.

Dr Firdous said that 23 banks had been given...