Taxila (Staff Report) : The various public circles and stamp vendor associations have called upon the Chairman of Punjab Revenue Board Punjab, commissioner, and deputy commissioner Rawalpindi to direct the concerned revenue officials and registrars to vetting of manual registry whom stamp paper issued before January 15.
A number of affected persons and stamp vendors while talking to newsmen here said that the e-registry system was implemented across the province suspending manual registry. They were of the view that many litigants especially those living in rural areas had been issued their stamp papers before January 15 but failed to get their registry manually by the revenue officers and registrars due to some technical reasons and now they are looking helplessly to register their registry. “I have been issued stamp papers from state bank amounting to over 0.2 million rupees for the purchase of land before 15, but due to delay in sanction of my leave I have not reached here and subsequently the revenue officials are not vetting my registry and my stamp papers are now just a piece of trash for me”. Said Mushtaq Ahmed- an employee of Pakistan oil fields in Sindh. He demanded that all those stamp papers issued before 15 May be allowed to be vetted by the concerned revenue office.
Zahra Batool- another litigant who came from Germany has said that she wants to transfer her inherited property after the demise of her father and get issued the stamp papers but my arrival to Pakistan late due to unavailability of seats and now the registrar is not vetting her registry even though she got issued her stamp papers before January 15.
Zeeshan Hameed- an office bearer of the local vendor association has said that the stamp paper issued before January 15 should be allowed to enter a manual registry. Across Punjab, where the system of e-registration has been implemented and after January 15, no registrar is maintaining the manual registry, due to which those who had prepared their manual registry before January 15 and their statements could not complete the registrar are in deep trouble.
Malik Jehangir- an officer bearer of the local stamp vendors’ association has said that scores of litigants running from pillar to post to get registered in their manual registry which was issued before January 15. He was of the view that in the present era, the minimum expenditure on any citizen registry is thousands of rupees per marla and due to the non-completion of the manual statement registry, there is a fear of losing their accumulated stamps and other taxes worth millions of rupees. “E-stamping indeed reduces the leakage of government funds, but the policy-makers have not taken the other aspects of this transition into account”. He added.
Sajjad Ahmed- another stamp vendor has said that whenever a manual registry is presented to a registrar, they say that we do not have an order to complete the manual registry, due to which the visitors coming to complete the registry are in great trouble. “If our stamp paper and other taxes are wasted like this, then we have a big loss”. He added.
“We appeal to the Revenue Board Punjab and other concerned departments that e-registration is undoubtedly a good and timely step, which is in line with the requirements of modern times, but special orders should be issued for all registrars, which are issued and collected before January 15, so that we poor people can avoid this loss”, said stamp vendor association officer bearer Zain Shah.
