To provide land acquisition teams with a single desktop system to record, search, and manage all land acquisition activity, from initial purchase/offer through registration, intiqal (transfer), litigation tracking, payments and handover, reducing errors, speeding decision making, and preserving legal evidence and documents.

Target users / roles

• Admin — system setup, user management, backup/restore

• Land Officer / Data Entry — create and edit land records, upload documents

• Legal / Case Manager — track legal issues, hearings, counsel notes

• Finance / Accounts — record payments, disbursements, bank transactions

• Supervisor / Reviewer — approve transactions, generate sign-off reports

• Viewer / Public Liaison — read-only access for queries

Core functional modules (MVP)

1. Land Registry / Parcel Master

   • Parcel ID, Province/District/Tehsil, Mauza, Khewat/Khatoni, Survey number, Area (kanal/marla/acre), Land use type

   • Coordinates (optional), map link, status (available/acquired/encumbered)

   • Attachments: title docs, registry copies, maps, photos

2. Ownership & Intiqal (Transfer)

   • Owner history with dates, NTN/CNIC, address, contact

   • Intiqal records: instrument number, date, transfer type (sale/gift/award), registrar, fees, stamp duty

   • Link intiqal events to Parcel and Owner records

3. Acquisition Transactions

   • Purchase offers, negotiation notes, agreed price, payment schedule

   • Payment receipts, bank reference, escrow details

   • Acquisition status workflow (Initiated → Under Review → Approved → Registered → Closed)

4. Legal Case & Encumbrance Tracker

   • Legal issue records: case number, court, filing date, current stage, counsel assigned

   • Liens, mortgages, injunctions, notices — linked to parcels

   • Alerts for hearings and deadlines

5. Document Management

   • Store PDFs/images per record with metadata (type, date, uploaded by)

   • Full-text OCR search (optional)

   • Versioning & checksum

6. Search & Filters

   • Global search by Parcel ID, Mauza, owner name, survey number, instrument number

   • Advanced filters (status, date range, legal flags)

7. Reporting & Export

   • Standard reports: Acquisition register, Owner history, Pending legal cases, Payments ledger

   • Export to PDF/Excel, printable certificates (e.g., acquisition certificate)

   • Audit log per record (who/when/what changed)

8. Security & Audit

   • Role-based access control

   • Per-record change history and immutable audit trail

   • Data encryption at rest (optional) + secure backups

9. Admin / Maintenance

   • User management, backups, restore, database maintenance

   • Data import/export (CSV/Excel) for bulk onboarding