Punjab hired two world renowned consultancies namely Price Waterhouse Coopers and KPMG

Consultancies have been hired scrutinize the documents regarding property registrations in 12 tehsils in last one year to ascertain whether these were registered as per prescribed norms of the state government

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Vijay C Roy Chandigarh
Last Updated : Sep 09 2013 | 5:43 PM IST
The Punjab Revenue department has hired two world renowned consultancies namely Price Waterhouse Coopers and KPMG to scrutinize the documents regarding property registrations in 12 tehsils in last one year to ascertain whether these were registered as per prescribed norms of the state government. According to estimates, about 1.5 lakh property registrations would be scrutinized in this process.

Disclosing this during an interaction with media persons, the Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said that this initiative was aimed to ensure total transparency in the revenue department working and categorically said that in case of any wrong doing concerned officer or official would have to face the music. He informed that about 1.5 lakh property registrations would be scrutinized in this process. He said that the department was exploring the possibility of automating revenue system to bring more efficiency. He said that Integrated Computerization and Registration of Documents project (RoD) has already been started in Mohali, Jalandhar and Nakodar.  

He further said that with operationalization of 161 computerized fard kendras covering 12683 villages out of 13001 total villages of the state, the landowners were now just a click away from their land records. He informed that these fard kendras have been providing on an average 2.35 lac fards per month and the remaining 6 fard kendras would be soon set up at newly created 6 sub tehsils.

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He said that as per the requirement the number of Sub-Registrar office would be enhanced in major cities like Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Patiala, Bathinda and Mohali and he was fully committed to provide world class infrastructure and facilities at registration offices to ensure comfort of the visitors as this department was the major source of revenue generation in the state.


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First Published: Sep 09 2013 | 5:41 PM IST

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