Iran to finish digitalizing records for public, state lands by September
Iranian government authorities say they will finish digitalizing records for public and state lands within the next few months, a project which has cost over $35 billion in government spending over a period of seven years.
A report on the website of the Iranian agriculture ministry said on Tuesday that cadastral maps will be available by late September for 40 million hectares of lands that are being surveyed.
Iran embarked on a massive project in 2013 to define boundaries for all plots of lands designated as public or those directly owned by the government. The project is meant to assign digitalized cadastre maps to those lands to prevent misuses or legal disputes.
Iran’s Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization (FRW), a subsidiary of the agriculture ministry, has prepared cadastre maps for 55 million hectares of public and state lands this calendar year beginning March, according to FRW deputy chief Reza Aflatouni.
Aflatouni said surveys accelerated in recent months with more government spending as he added that records on some 38 million hectares of lands had been digitalized as part of the cadastre project before March 2021.
The official described digitalizing records for public and state lands as a costly project, adding that the government currently spends an average of 40-90 million rials ($160-$360) on cadastre maps for each hectare of land.
Iran has been grappling with high levels of corruption and legal disputes related to ownership of public and state lands in recent decades.
Experts believe assigning digital codes to those lands can eliminate such problems while enabling the government to better earmark the lands to manufacturing and agriculture activities.
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