Computerisation of land titles nationwide to take
seven years
The Star 09/10/2001 By K. Anuradha
LAND-related transactions at land offices throughout the peninsula is
set to change with a series of changes being implemented by the Land and
Mines Department to enhance efficiency.
For one, information on the six million land titles will be fed to a
database to enable easier information retrieval.
The process will be tedious, time-consuming and expensive, but
absolutely necessary to update and secure old records, said Land and
Cooperative Development Deputy Minister Dr Tan Kee Kwong.
“Most of the master copies of the land titles are either torn or
illegible,’’ he said. Dr Tan said the Government had allocated RM159mil for the project, which
was expected to be completed in seven years.
“We are trying to do in seven years what took a country like Sweden 20
years to do. “It is a challenge,’’ he said after visiting the Federal Territory Land
and Mines Department in Kuala Lumpur.
He said the department had embarked on the first phase of the project
last year in five states, Perlis, Kedah, Pahang, Terengganu and Kuala
Lumpur, adding that work on these states were almost completed.
The second phase involving the remaining states was under way, he
added. FT Land and Mines Depart-ment director Yidris Abdullah said the system
was still new and some hiccups were inevitable.
He said the reason why many title searches took time was due to
department staff not only having to locate a copy from the database, but
also a copy of the original title.
“These original copies are stored in our strong rooms, and it is not
easy going through thousands of titles,’’ he explained.
Dr Tan said computerised information would make it a lot easier to
retrieve data.
To prove it, he tested the system and completed one search within
minutes.
He said the search fee would be RM30. |
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