MARDAN: PTI chairman Imran Khan on Saturday said his party’s government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would computerise the province’s all land records in three years.

“We (PTI government) began the land record’s computerisation from Mardan district and are hopeful that such record in all districts of the province will be computerised by the end of 2017,” he said after inaugurating the service delivery centre of the land revenue department in Mardan district.

It is the first such facility across the province.

The PTI chairman said the automation of land record would not only bring relief to the people but it would address land disputes as well. He said all revenue record in western countries was computerised and therefore, there existed no land disputes.

Imran said construction of roads, bridges and buildings didn’t build nations and instead, dispensation of speedy justice and provision of modern facilities to the people helped national grow stronger.

Imran Khan says modern facilities, speedy justice for people real development

He said the PTI government was committed to building ‘Naya Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’ by ensuring good governance and dispensation of speedy justice to the people.

“We will provide justice to the people on their doorstep by ending ‘thana and kutcheri culture’ through reforms,” he said.

The PTI chairman said the provincial government was make every effort to check the excesses of patwaris and other revenue officials.

He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif didn’t see ‘Naya Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’ as he had a ‘different’ concept of development.

“Nawaz Sharif sees the launch of Rs50 billion metro bus service in a province and that, too, after receiving payoffs, the real development,” he said.

Imran said he thought provision of modern facilities and speedy justice to common man was the people’s development in true sense.

He said a top builder would have been the country’s prime minister had the construction of roads and bridges been the real development.

The PTI chairman said both PML-N and PPP came to power six times in Punjab and Sindh and thrice in the centre but they miserably failed to change the old ‘patwari culture.’

“They (PML-N and PPP leaders) did not want to change that system because it help them get billions of rupees illegally,” he said.

Imran said the PTI government had introduced the registration of online FIR and formed reconciliation councils at police stations for resolution of the people’s disputes.

“Now, the people don’t need to move courts for resolution of their disputes as that happens locally,” he said.

The PTI chairman said biometric system had been introduced in health and educational institutions to ensure presence of the relevant staff on duty.

He said the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Memorial Hospital in Peshawar would become operational soon to the relief of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining tribal areas.

Imran said the PTI government had been striving to free educational institutions from all kinds of politics. He said all future vice chancellors of government universities in the province would be appointed on merit.

The PTI chairman said the provincial government had hired the services of former federal minister Dr Attaur Rehman for suggesting reforms in local education system.

On the occasion, provincial ministers Atif Khan and Sardar Ameenullah Gandapur, special assistant to the chief minister Dr Mehar Taj Roghani, MNAs Mujahid Khan and Ali Mohammad Khan, MPAs Iftikhar Mashwani, Sahid Durrani and Tufail Anjum, Ubaid Mayar, and PTI leaders and workers attended the event.

Published in Dawn, March 29th, 2015

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