Punjab Urban Land Systems Enhancement Project

active

Prospective

The Government of Pakistan has initiated several pro-poor programs, including the Naya Pakistan Housing Program (NPHP). Launched in April 2019, NPHP seeks to build five million low-cost housing units in urban areas across the country within a five-year timeframe. Access to land with secure tenure is a basic requirement for sustainable and affordable housing. Although information on urban property transactions is typically recorded through the registration of deeds, a standardized methodology for transaction processing does not exist in the urban areas of Punjab. Given the existing gaps and the absence of a standardized system of recording property rights in urban areas, the following challenges persist: (i) property tax evasion and inequitable taxation; (ii) non-availability of formal ownership records; (iii) lengthy dispute resolution and litigation processes; (iv) overlapping record registries in multiple agencies that lack harmonization; (v) lack of easy access to property rights information for development authorities to fulfill their core functions; and (vi) absence of up-to-date cadastral data for government agencies to incorporate climate change considerations. Women in urban areas also face marginalization and the loss of inheritance rights to land due to the lack of clarity on property ownership, limited access to land-related services, and cultural restrictions. As such, the Project will support the creation of a province-wide digital cadastral map, standardization and interlinking land records, data improvement in urban and rural areas, the scale-up of Land Record Management and Information System (LRMIS), as well as project management and policy development. Promoting a more transparent, efficient, and selective supply of land will address one of the critical bottlenecks to the supply of affordable housing. The Project Components are: Component 1: Digital Land Records and Cadastral Maps for LRMIS - Subcomponent 1.1: Spatial framework for LRMIS; Subcomponent 1.2: Systematic registration of peri-urban properties; Subcomponent 1.3: Upgrading tax records to urban land records; Subcomponent 1.4: Incorporation of existing urban records into a unified land registry; and Subcomponent 1.5: Systematic registration of urban properties. Component 2: Land for Housing - Preparing an inventory of state lands and supporting the Project Implementing Entity to develop strategies and procedures for managing those public land asset.Component 3: Integrated Land and Geospatial Information Systems and Services - Subcomponent 3.1: ICT Infrastructure upgrade; Subcomponent 3.2: LRMIS improvement; Subcomponent 3.3: Integrated land portal; and Subcomponent 3.4: Establishing a provincial spatial data infrastructure.Component 4: Project Management and Institutional Strengthening.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services,FY17 - Information and Communications Technologies,FY17 - Public Administration

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Warehouse, Forest Products and Packaging, Raw Materials, Government