KARACHI, Feb 27: Sindh Minister for Local Government Mohammed Hussain said that a liaison committee had been formed to assist development authorities in resolving disputes with land owning agencies including the issue of land consolidation.

Presiding over the first meeting of the committee at his office here on Tuesday, the minister, who also heads the committee, said the committee had been assigned the responsibility of creating consolidated land data bank, besides scrutinising and improving layout plans of various development authorities.

The committee, he said, would also assist various agencies in implementing resettlement projects in urban areas while land claims by various departments and settlement of disputes thereof would regularly feature at the meetings of this committee.—APP