'Big step forward': PM Imran Khan inaugurates Islamabad's Cadastral Mapping Project
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday inaugurated Islamabad's Cadastral Mapping Project — which aims to curb land record tampering, ensure monitoring of construction through imagery, and provide information about land ownership on a single click.
The prime minister, speaking at the inauguration ceremony, said the digitalisation of land records was a "big step forward" in curbing land record tampering.
"The land records should have been computerised earlier [...] not digitising them had aided powerful people," the prime minister said.
PM Imran Khan highlighted that the land-grabbing mafia did not want records to be digitalised as it would have a setback on their motives. "50% cases in courts are of land disputes."
The premier said land grabbers occupy the homes of overseas Pakistanis, however, this digitalised system will now help keep track of the land's ownership.
"The land records of Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore will be digitalised [...] and technology will help beat the land-grabbing mafia," the prime minister said.
The prime minister mentioned that the price of land was surging in the country and it was the government's responsibility to keep a check on it and safeguard the interests of the people.
He mentioned the government had recovered state land worth Rs300 billion in the last three years — since PTI came into power.
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