The Punjab Board of Revenue has clarified the procedure for areas where land records have not yet been digitised following the launch of the Green Property Certificate system. Under the revised arrangement, manual record-of-rights extracts, commonly known as Fard, may continue to be issued in non-computerised mauzas for a temporary period of three months.
The relief addresses confusion created after traditional Fard issuance was suspended from July 1 in areas brought under the Green Property Certificate framework. The new notification allows revenue staff in manual-record areas to issue certified land record copies under the prescribed revenue rules while completing the digitisation of those records.
During this three-month period, the concerned authorities must computerise the remaining manual records and integrate them with the digital registration system. Once digitisation is completed, Green Property Certificates can be issued without delay. In computerised areas, land record documents will continue to be processed under the new digital framework. The Board of Revenue has directed commissioners, deputy commissioners and other relevant officials to implement the notification immediately.
