KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has asked the officials concerned why the project of computerisation of land record he approved in December 2011 at a cost of Rs4.9 billion has not been completed.

Presiding over a meeting at CM House on Saturday, the chief minister said the project was launched to offer a gift to the people of Sindh.

Senior officials of the Board of Revenue claimed the project had ‘almost’ been completed as just 10 per cent entries were yet to be digitalised.

They said some 3,016 copies of the record had been issued so far in 24 districts against which only 25 complaints of ‘unfound record’ were received.

They said efforts were afoot to remove flaws and mistakes in the computerised system.

In the light of the directives of the Supreme Court, the officials had started verifying the digitalised record with the record preserved through microfilming and this verification would remove all mistakes from the record, the officials added.

The chief minister said he wanted the officials to follow the Supreme Court’s directives and make the record free of mistakes.

Published in Dawn, May 1st, 2016