Iranian Cadastre System Nasrollah Jahangard Iran s Deeds and Properties Registration Organization I.R. of Iran 14 th PCGIAP, KL, Malaysia 2008
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Islamic Republic of IRAN In a Glance Area: 1.648 million sq km with 14 neighbors 8700 km borders, 30 Provinces, 1060 Cities About 30,000,000 registered parcels- Population: +71.5 Million, 0-30 yrs: 70%, Literate 85% Capital city: Tehran +10 million habitant Population distribution: 70% of population in urban, Education: 115,000 schools with near 18 million students, +200 Universities with about 2 million students, and > 6,000,000 Graduate Businesses: about 1,300,000 companies of different sizes
Fiber Digital microwave satellite Fix Telephone : 34% Mobile Phone : 39% Internet:30% Villages>100 habitant: 100% Optical Fiber: 40,000Km TAE Flag
Organizational Structure Legislature Leader Executive judiciary
Judiciary The state Organization for Registration of Deeds and Properties Deeds Corporation s Properties Cadastral Office Deeds Trademarks Patents Court Ruling Enforcement Corporations Transactions
Major Responsibilities Registration of Deeds and Properties is an organization under the Judiciary Branches. Its activity includes: Properties Deeds Trademarks Patents Corporations Transaction Court Ruling Enforcement *Cadastre
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Cadastre Program: Objectives Secure land tenure Land disputes reduction Improvement of real state market To increase land values and encourage land investments Increase tax revenues Accurate and accessible spatial information Innovative and Efficient and transparent land administration
Progress so far
Operations: Success Areas Less boundary disputes Expropriation and Compensation Reform of laws and regulation Protection of Property Rights Moving from Deed to Title Registration
Convert Paper-based Information to Digitize-based Version
Convert Old paper map to Standard-digital digital map based on global positioning & GIS
Cadastre Mapping 160000 140000 120000 Map Sheets 100000 80000 60000 40000 Cadastre Mapping 20000 0 2004 2005 2006 2007
Data Entry Records 9000000 8000000 7000000 6000000 5000000 4000000 3000000 2000000 1000000 0 2004 2005 2006 2007 Data Entry
Challenges and Issues
Major Challenging Aspects
Challenges Political Lack of national high level priority for Cadastre project implementation. Legal Lack of national pushing regulations. HR and social capital Requiring capacity building in HR section for Cadastre A need for enhancing public awareness and cooperation Economic A Need to develop a sustainable and economical business model for a medium and long term investment and implementation of Cadastre Program in Iran.
Institutional Challenges Lack of cooperation among the local authorities& stake holders Requiring capacity building in the privet sector A need for innovative organizational models & procedures Lack of synergy among deferent organization involving the implementing procedure. Technical A need to develop a sustainable, upgradeable, compatible & portable system. Lack of Cadastral data updating and synchronization technical infrastructure.
Future Direction Automation of Abstracts of Deeds Improve cooperation between Cadastre and the other mapping agencies To establish a network among provinces to access Cadastral data Use of more accurate1:500 map Insert Postal Codes on maps To add Cadastral data for range, forest and agricultural lands and villages
Major opportunities for Cadastre in Iran A good basis for sustainable development A good step for knowledge based economy by creating NSDI A good opportunity for process re-engineering of DEEDS registration at all levels Creating attraction to the local market A great mean to realize national wealth and common trust Best approach for developing Land Market Management.
Suggestions
Spatial Data Social factor Bio-diversity Infrastructures (Water, Telecom, Power, Energy) Land use - Cadastre Administrative units SDI Applications Social Disaster management National security& defense Facilitating industry Mgmt Emergency services (fire, police,healthcare) Economic Resource management (agriculture, mining, energy.) Land administration& cadastre Business planning Demography Development Dimensions Social provision of community services decision-making in disaster, government poverty reduction Good land management Economic Money raising Critical infrastructures development effective siting and use of facilities and assets SD I SDI Environmental Developing natural resource Natural resource management Population control Evaluation & monitoring (water, soil, air Environmental Evaluation and monitoring of environment
Key Features for Cadastre in Developing Countries Simple and Flexible Use of non-complex technologies Open and low cost access to stakeholders Compatibility and portability with other systems Adaptive to progress
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