“There are 4,000 seats vacant for patwaris and almost 2,500 to 3,000 patwaris are presently working while most of them are near retirement. However, Punjab Revenue Minister Malik Muhammad Anwar, while speaking to this scribe, agreed to the integration of patwaris in the planned system. Justifying the importance of patwaris, he said, “Until now many of the tasks related to land are being carried out through patwaris. “The patwaris working with us have to be assigned with some work, therefore, they will have to continue working. These SCOs should have hands-on knowledge of this because all the works whether manual or digitised are according to the Land Revenue Act and have the same technicalities,” he added.

Source: Pakistan Today February 26, 2020 17:37 UTC