City survey: Why is enforcement lagging behind?
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
The Dhaka City Survey from the land office was carried out more than a decade ago to determine ownership of lands and structures in them. Its results were also finally published and circulated among land owners with titles to property. But it is not being enforced.
We suspect the enforcement of the City Survey has been deliberately kept in abeyance for the land administration officials to make money under the table from providing unnecessary or dubious mutation certificates that in turn may lead to many litigations later on. This scope for bribery and litigations can be avoided if the results of this survey are immediately enforced by taking government's land tax and doing registration activities on the basis of it.
Taimur A K Mahmud
Wari, Dhaka
We suspect the enforcement of the City Survey has been deliberately kept in abeyance for the land administration officials to make money under the table from providing unnecessary or dubious mutation certificates that in turn may lead to many litigations later on. This scope for bribery and litigations can be avoided if the results of this survey are immediately enforced by taking government's land tax and doing registration activities on the basis of it.
Taimur A K Mahmud
Wari, Dhaka