Digitized land applications, titles to be made available

Friday, September 23, 2011

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources will install the land administration and management system (Lams) in all its regional offices, including Western Visayas, starting next year to address land-related problems.

Lams is an information system designed to help the Land Management Bureau and the DENR Regional Land Management Services in managing land data and information.

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A product under the second phase of the Land Administration and Management Project (Lamp2), Lams involved not only the build-up of database but also the installation of required hardware infrastructures.

Specifically, the project will computerize not only the land records but also scan and encode maps, survey plans and public land applications. It aims to minimize, if not totally stop, land conflicts arising from erroneous data, duplication of records, multiple sources of land information and like.

“With the installation of Lams in all regional offices, the public can expect not only a more efficient delivery of land services but also enhanced integrity of our land titles,” Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said Friday, adding that aside from information on land titles, cadastral maps and land application records would also be made available to the public.

“With Lams, we hope to address perennial problems related to land administration like fake and fraudulent titles, overlapping of boundaries and graft and corruption,” he added. “Every land transaction will be very transparent.”

Lams also complements another priority project of the agency, the fast-tracking of the cadastral survey of all alienable and disposable public lands, for use in the disposition, land use planning, taxation and internal revenue allotment program benefiting local government units.

To date, around 878 of the 1,516 targeted cities and municipalities have been completely surveyed; 370 have ongoing cadastral survey activities; 228 partially surveyed; while 40 towns remained un-surveyed. (CGC)

Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod newspaper on September 24, 2011.