TANK, Jan 1 (APP): Tank district ranked first among the southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after completing the process of computerization of land record on a fast-track basis, despite limited resources and daunting challenges of flooding and law and order.
Tank district was included in the second phase of the land records’ digitization process with 11 other districts including Swat, Shangla, Mansehra, Battagram, Nowshera, Charsadda, Hangu, Karak, Haripur, Swabi and Lakki Marwat by the provincial government in 2015.
Among these districts, Tank administration took the lead by completing the process successfully first while at the provincial level it remained at the fourth position if districts of phase-I were also taken into account.
“The credit goes to all my team members who tirelessly worked day in and day out and put up efforts in a coordinated manner, winning laurels for the administration by accomplishing the uphill task to digitize 87 Muza in the district against all odds,” Deputy Commissioner Hameedullah Khattak told APP.
Initially, the digitization process started in 2016 and continued at a snail pace in the district with a piecemeal approach, but the incumbent administration sensitized all the stakeholders about the utility of the drive and got things streamlined.
But as the district administration was gearing up to complete the task on war footing, a new challenge resurrected its ugly ahead and that was a ravaging flood which left a trail of destruction across the length and breadth of the district with infrastructure damaged, crops destroying and claimed human lives.
On the top of that, when inhabitants and the district administration was no exception, recollecting the grisly incidents riddled past became so obsessed with having sustainable peace in the area and that remained a challenge too.
The district administration was really overstretched while coping with these challenges but stunningly it managed to get over by the virtue of strong determination and high spirit to serve people and the area under all circumstances.
Normalcy was restored as result of citizens’ cooperation and coordinated efforts of all the line departments under the leadership of the district administration.
Hameedullah Khattak said after successfully tackling the flood situation, the land computerization process was kick-started from September 30, 2022 while giving lots of pep talks to stakeholders and pursuing reward and punishment policy to mobilize the revenue officials amid stringent monitoring mechanisms.
Resultantly, the process was completed in a short span of time leaving other adjoining or southern districts of the province far behind.
He said two Service Deliver Centers(SDCs) had been constructed and now the facility of fard, mutation etc would be available under one roof and people would be able to promptly get correct information and services about their land record in the district.
