PM to launch Islamabad’s digitalized land record, cadastral map

The cadastral mapping project has been conceived and inspired by vision of the Prime Minister to modernize the old "Patwar system" into modernized digital online system.

The phase-I comprises of digitization of revenue record of three major cities including Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad and state land data of the country.

By using Geographical Information System, survey of Pakistan has completed Islamabad Capital Territory digitalization.

This will also help overseas Pakistani to verify online information before purchase of land in capital system.

The new system would also help identify the illicit hinging of state land, encroachment at nullah and forests

A cadastral map, however, is a comprehensive land recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.

In most countries, legal systems have developed around the original administrative systems and use the cadastre to define the dimensions and location of land parcels described in legal documentation