RAWALPINDI: Almost 90 per cent of the land record in the Rawalpindi district has gone online and now the land-related information can be viewed by clicking on the revenue department’s website.

The district government has also set up a service centre at Rawat where the citizens can get any kind of information/copies/fard of their land.

The government will also launch a two-day awareness campaign about computerisation of the land record and its process by holding street theatres from Friday.

According to Zahid Sohail, the assistant commissioner city, who has been tasked with computerising the land record of the rural areas, the new facility will not only eliminate the patwari culture but will also protect the landowners from the land mafia.

“Everything pertaining to land has been computerised, zeroing the role of the patwari,” he said.

Financed by the World Bank (WB), the Land Record Management Information System (LRMIS) has computerised almost 90 per cent mauzas in all the seven towns of Rawalpindi, Mr Sohail added.

To create awareness among the public about the computerisation of the land record and its process, the project management unit of the Board of Revenue, Punjab, will stage street theatres on Friday at Rawalpindi Saddar, Bank Road and Fawara Chowk from 11am to 5pm.

On Saturday, the theatres will be organised at Chandni Chowk and Commerical Market.

The assistant commissioner said more service centres would be established by June 30, the deadline for computerising all the land records across the province.

“Computerisation of land record was no doubt a hectic and tiresome task but we managed to cover the scattered mauzas and khasras in the new system. The new facility is, in fact, a landmark achievement aimed at facilitating the people dealing with the real estate issues,” Assistant Commissioner Cantonment Nadia Parveen told Dawn on Thursday.

She said the demarcation of land or getting fard were issues that would take months to settle because of the role of the patwari, adding from now onwards it would take just a few seconds to get all the required land records.

“The land computerisation would also reduce the burden on the revenue officials as land disputes would reduce significantly and would also help reduce litigation cases,” she told this reporter.