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Abang Johari (centre) launches the eLASC (online land application status check) while (from right) Abdullah, Zaidi (partially hidden), Jaul, and Len Talif look on. Photo: Mohd Alif Noni

LAND TRANSACTIONS

KUCHING: The Land and Survey Department (JTS) Sarawak aims to provide same day registration for land transactions and issuance of titles by middle of this year.

Its director Abdullah Julaihi said the department has already been implementing the initiative at its head office and hoped that it would be implemented state-wide by mid-year.

“Currently, if you submit an application, it is completed the next day.

“By the middle of this year, you send in an application in the morning and it will be done by the end of the day,” he said during the department’s appreciation dinner at a hotel here on Friday.

Abdullah also said the department hoped to complete 155 people’s projects (projek rakyat) during the first seven months of this year.

He explained that the department has been entrusted with 549 such projects this year. The projects include surveying of native customary rights (NCR) lands.

“For projects in 2020, we have been allocated RM277 million,” he said.

Abang Johari (centre) launches the eLASC (online land application status check) while (from right) Abdullah, Zaidi (partially hidden), Jaul, and Len Talif look on. Photo: Mohd Alif Noni

He added that the department was targeting to survey 1,220 residential lots state-wide by the end of this year.

He disclosed that the department collected RM500 million in revenue last year.

“This is expected to increase with several new developments and also new rates such as for quarry royalties and so on,” he said.

He added that JTS Sarawak had successfully accomplished a 92.73 per cent achievement rate with regard to resettlement schemes and kampung extensions.

Touching on NCR land surveying, he said the number of NCR survey parties had been increased from 100 to 130 with the recruitment of 467 new staff at the end of last year.

Abdullah said they were working with institutions such as Universiti Technologi Mara (UiTM) Sarawak and polytechnics to have more courses to train technicians to support surveyors in the industry.

During the dinner, guest of honour, Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg launched an online land application status check (eLASC) which is accessible from JTS Sarawak’s eLASIS portal.

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