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SMBR gives insight into BoR reforms
National
LAHORE: The Punjab Board of Revenue has decided to restore old land revenue system to the province.
Tehsildar, Patwar, Lambardar and Chowkidar system will be restored by the Board of Revenue with the help of modern technology.
Institution of Lambardars in Punjab province would be revitalized as Lambradar has important place in rural areas.
According to Babar Hayyat Tarar, Senior Member of Board of Revenue, the number of teachers in government schools, attendance of teachers, details of child labour will be recorded online at Patwar and Tehsildar levels. He said that data about all family members, including men, women and children, will also be available online portal of revenue.
Is the patwari culture making a comeback in Punjab?
Patwari’s role important for hands-on knowledge in rural areas, says Board of Revenue senior member
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Updated Friday May 07 2021
On January 15, the Punjab government kicked up a storm, when it began to rehire land record and village officers, also known as
patwaris and
tehsildars, across the province.
Was the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) going back on its promise of ending the “patwari culture”? Didn’t it also vow to computerise all land records?
The “
patwari culture” has had a notorious reputation in Punjab. In the past, land record and revenue officers have been accused of corruption such as fudging tax collection to favor wealthy landlords over the poor.
A Patwari working at his rented office in Chakwal. Dawn/File
GUJRAT: The centuries-old Patwar system has, once again, been revived by the PTI government in Punjab through posting of land revenue officials at the recently launched the Dehi Marakaz-i-Maal (rural revenue centres), also called Satellite Arazi Record Centres.
Earlier, the PML N government had gradually replaced the Patwar system with at least 144 Arazi Record Centres (ARCs) and computerisation of land record in the province during its 10 years tenure (2008-2018). These ARCs had improved the service delivery, removed the intervention of Patwaris and controlled corruption in the revenue department.
Though the Punjab Land Record Authority (PLRA) had devised a plan to establish the ARCs at the Qanungoi circle level, the establishment of Dehi Marakaz-i-Maal is said to be the brain child of Senior Member Board Of Revenue (SMBR) Babar Hayat Tarrar who envisaged the revival of the Patwar system through these centres in the