PROPER surveying and planning of land in the country is crucial in adding the value of plots and eventually expanding the tax base to the government and enabling people to use the property as collateral in accessing loans, it has been observed.
"Once surveyed and planned land is a crucial capital to the population and source of revenues to the government," the Director of Urban and Rural Planning in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Prof John Lupala, remarked over the weekend.
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