BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—The Land Registration Authority here has completed close to 3,000 land transactions under its Land Titling Computerization Program.
Lawyer Melba Nina Quinto, deputy LRA chief, said they have already registered 2,889 land transactions from January to May 15 this year.
She said that out of the 2,889 registered land transactions, 2,078 documents were already released.
Quinto said the various land transactions registered and released were 385 chattel mortgages, 71 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program transactions, and 1,674 requests for electronic copies of titles and certificates.
She added that 1,041 titles were also released from various conveyances such as sale, donation, extrajudicial partition, and subdivisions.
At least 156 free patent titles were also distributed to different beneficiaries in barangay Binogawan in Kasibu town through the “Handog Titulo Program.”
“Our land-titling computerization program is continuously under system updates and innovation, under which is the conversion of manually issued titles into electronic certificates of title, or Philaries title, within a period of three years,” Quinto said.
LRA is now on its seventh year of LTCP implementation, which is designed to maintain online information on titles that are current, complete and accurate, to maintain the security and integrity of records by safeguarding them from tampering or destruction and to protect land titles from loss due to fire, theft and natural disasters.
Quinto said their LTCP is being implemented in partnership with the Municipal and Provincial assessment offices and Provincial Treasury.