KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the computerisation of land revenue record would prove to be a great gift of his government for the people of Sindh. He said, “I had started it as a great service to the people of my province and I am sure that they would remember me for preserving their ‘record of rights’ for them and their future generations”. He gave these remarks while presiding over a meeting on computerisation of revenue record, issues and problems at the Chief Minister House on Friday. The meeting was attended by Sindh Chief Secretary Siddique Memon, Principal Secretary to CM Alamuddin Bullo, Board of Revenue (BoR) Senior Member Rizwan Memon and BoR Member Zulfikar Shah at the CM House. The Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that he had approved the project of computerisation of land record on December 12, 2011 at a cost of Rs 4.9 billion. He asked that why it has not been completed so far and what are the problems. Board of Revenue (BoR) Senior Member Rizwan Memon said that the project has been completed in a record period of four and a half years. The Punjab government has done a similar work of computerisation of land Record in nine and a half years. The Sindh Chief Secretary Siddique Memon said that in Punjab there are 36 districts while Sindh province has 29 districts. He said that the computerisation work of Punjab was done with the assistance of the World Bank while Sindh has done it on its own resources. He further said, “In this way, Sindh Board of Revenue has done a wonderful job and there are some teething problems, which would be addressed properly. The BoR Member Zulfiqar Shah while talking about features and efficiency of the project said that the Sindh government has established a centralised computerised system under which a land owner can get a copy of his record from any service centre anywhere in the Sindh province while in the Punjab the said record can only be obtained from the concerned tehsil centre. He said that the project has been completed and only eight to 10 percent entries are yet to be digitalised. He said that 3,016 copies of the record have been issued so far in 24 districts against which only 25 complaints of ‘unfound record’ were received. Zulfiqar Shah said that he is working hard to make the computerised system perfect by removing the mistakes and tracing the missing record. Zulfiqar Shah further said that in the light of the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), he has started verifying the digitalised record with the record preserved through microfilming. He said, “This comparison and verification would remove whatever mistakes or inaccuracies are left in computerised work”. The chief minister said, “He is sure that the computerisation of revenue record would be his great achievement and service to the people of Sindh adding that I want you to follow the directives of Supreme Court and make the record free of mistakes. He further said that this is my commitment with my leadership and with the people of the province.