Punjab Information Technology Board Chairman Faisal Yousaf presided over a collaborative session bringing together all stakeholder agencies engaged in implementing the Punjab Socio-Economic Registry Door-to-Door Survey. The session was co-chaired by Chief Executive Officer of Punjab Social Protection Authority Ali Shehzad, bringing together the technical and policy sides of the registry’s ongoing rollout.
Senior officials in attendance included PITB’s Director General for e-Governance Sajid Latif, Additional Director Generals Omar Salman and Hammad Hasan Hamdani, along with Syed Qasim Ifzal, Nausheen Fayyaz, Ali Kheiri, and Director IT Solutions Sajjad Qureshi. Representatives from Punjab Social Protection Authority, The Urban Unit, and the Bureau of Statistics Punjab were also among the key participants, reflecting the cross agency coordination required to make use of the registry’s household level data.
The session aimed to deliberate on and analyse potential use cases for Punjab Socio-Economic Registry data, focusing on how the information could be consolidated and visualised through the One Map Punjab platform, a unified geographic information system project being implemented by the Punjab Information Technology Board with the Planning and Development Department serving as the sponsoring agency. Participants discussed how integrating registry data into the platform could enable more data driven governance and better informed decision making across various government functions.
Discussions covered various use cases and data visualisation requirements across key sectors, including law and order, education, agriculture, revenue, health, and population, with participants aiming to develop an integrated, evidence based visualisation framework to support more effective planning, policymaking, and service delivery across the province. The One Map Punjab initiative itself is designed to unify mapping and geographical data across departments, incorporating a centralised interface for ongoing and planned government works, permit and no objection certificate applications, utility asset management, and a dashboard for real time monitoring of key performance indicators.
The session builds on the Punjab Socio-Economic Registry’s broader door to door survey, which resumed its current phase under the leadership of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif with a target of registering more than three million low income households across the province for welfare programmes including the Benazir Income Support Programme, the Chief Minister’s Rashan Card, and other social assistance schemes. By linking this household level data with the One Map Punjab platform, officials are aiming to move beyond using the registry purely for welfare targeting and toward a broader, integrated data resource capable of supporting planning and policy decisions across multiple government departments simultaneously.
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