The Punjab government of Pakistan has opened a new Tier III state data center in Lahore to store land ownership records.

Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif opened the Rural Land Computerization System and Punjab Land Record Authority at Arfa Karim Software Technology Park at a ceremony this week.

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“Matters of ownership deed and mutation of land have become free of corruption and family disputes regarding land have been eliminated,” Sharif said.

He added that the Land Record Management Information System has been brought to all tehsils (administrative areas) of the province and the rural land records of some 55 million people has been saved in data centers.

“No Patwari [Village Accountant] or official can now tamper with the record,” Sharif claimed.

To implement the project, the province set up the Punjab Land Record Authority, which Sharif called on to work on electronic maps and the computerization of urban property.

According to Punjab cabinet member and head of the Punjab Information Technology Board, Umar Saif, the new data center “has over 2000 processing cores, 3 Terabyte Memory & over 400 Terabytes of storage capacity.”

The project, made possible with World Bank funds, is thought to have cost eight hundred million Pakistani rupees, or $7.6 million.