An Assessment of Ministry Of Lands, Survey and Town Planning As an Agency for Government Revenue Generation in Jos Metropolis

Abstract

The study was carried out to assess the revenue generation activities of Plateau State Ministry of Lands, Survey and Town Planning, Jos, it utilized and reviewed 2008-2013 budgets of Plateau State Government. The results show that Ministry of Lands, Survey and Town Planning is among the top three (3) key ministries with great capacity to generate revenue for the state government after the Plateau State Internal Revenue Service. The research has also revealed that ongoing reforms in the ministry are capable of putting it in position to overcome the bottlenecks that had persistently crippled the revenue generation capacity of the ministry in the years that past. It recommends among other things that delays in the implementation of the reforms which were thought to be responsible for the dip in revenues in some years should be eliminated to make the ministry achieve her objectives and become the most profitable in Plateau state.

Keywords: Revenue Generation, Land Resources, Town Planning, Land Survey, Budgets