DENR: Computerized system to speed up land titling by 2011

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Thursday vowed faster land titling services by next year with its on-going computerization of land records. DENR Secretary Ramon Paje said the Land Management Bureau (LMB)’s computerized Land Administration and Management System (LAMS) will be a “big help" in the processing, verification and approval of land applications by 2011. “The computerization program will definitely be a big help to the bureau in performing its mandate to administer, survey, manage and dispose alienable and disposable lands and other government lands placed under its jurisdiction," Paje said in a speech during LMB’s founding anniversary celebration on Thursday. The LAMS program will fully digitize land records into a single database, which will include encoding of land records such as land surveys, public land applications, lot computations and other lot survey data, according to LMB Director Allan Barcena. Barcena added that the bureau plans to initially implement the computerization program in five regions—the Ilocos Region, Central and Eastern Visayas, Northern Mindanao and Davao Region—early next year. The nationwide implementation of the LAMS program is scheduled by the end of 2011, he added. The computerization program of the land sector is in accordance with an administrative order Paje issued earlier this year seeking to manage land information through a single data system.—Andreo C. Calonzo/JV, GMANews.TV