Bor county prepares to allocate 2,000 residential plots
April 26, 2015(BOR) – In a bid to reduce slum estates and create modern settlements Jonglei state’s Bor county is preparing to allocate over 2,000 new plots to landless residents living in the capital.
Sudan Tribune has learnt that plots have been allocated to landless people currently occupying privately owned and government land.
“The residents who [are] occupying land that does not belong to them will be taken to third class to Pakuau area that take over 2000 households,” the secretary of Bor county land authority, Mayol Pach, said.
Large areas of Pakuau will be allocated under the third class category to the vast majority of people considered to be low wage earners of unemployed.
The cost of a 400-square-metre plot in third class areas will be 320 South Sudanese pounds (SSP), about 0.8 SSP per one square metre of land.
The lack of computerised systems and biometric data remains a challenge to the county land authority and the ministry of physical infrastructure, making it difficult to monitor the amount of plots already allocated.
In the past one plot of land was allocated per couple, but they can now lodge applications for different plots.
“The challenge is that people are repeating their names. If the husband is registered in this plot, then the wife will say I am not registered,” said Pach.
(ST)