Lands department is the vital department in the Ministry of Land sand Survey has the following functions to play below. The department is divided into various sections/units in order to carry out her functions:
Land Administration Division
- Formulation, coordination and implementation of policies on land
- Administration, management and control of state government lands.
- Giving expert evidence in court and tribunals on state government land administrative matters.
- Advising state Government on legislations dealing with land administration.
- Managing and maintaining records of Right of occupancy, leases and other transactions of lands.
- Land process start from land department and end in land department.
Lands Acquisition and compensation units
- Acquisition of lands for the use of state Government,
- Enumeration,Assessment, payment and Administration of compensation for various interest on acquired lands.
- Review of applicable compensation rates
- Giving expert evidence in courts and tribunals and land acquisition and compensation matters.
State Lands Registry units
- The land Deed Registry unit handles the following functions.
- Examining and processing all documents deposited for registration of all related lands documents.
Indexing of all registered titles
- Attending to enquires from the public as may arise from time to time and includes searches , of charges and discharge and other examinations of documents .
- Attending to agencies from members of the public as may rise from time to time on registrable documents which include transfers and other matters.
- Preparation of certificate of occupancy and other title documents for Right of occupancy, leases and other grants on state government lands.
- It oversees the record units.
Valuation of Land, Property and Asset Valuation Unit
- Valuation of land for acquisition and composition
- Valuation of corporate assets of government owed companies and public incortion.
- Giving expert evidence in courts, tribunalsetc on property valuation matters.
- Keeping and maintaining of valuation records.
- Determining the capital valuation of the properties for assignment, mortgages and leases.
