EU gives Tk 950m to help land reform
Friday, 5 February 2010
FE Report
The European Union and the government have signed an agreement worth 10 million Euros (Tk 95 million) aimed at strengthening ordinary citizens' property rights to land.
The "Strengthening Access to Land and Property Rights for all Citizens of Bangladesh" project will help modernise land administration in Bangladesh. Such modernisation should make the system more transparent and usable for every citizen and especially poor and disadvantaged people, and should also help fight the illegal practice of land-grabbing.
"If this reform and our new project are successful, poor people will get much easier access to land and property. We consider this an important contribution to the fight against poverty in Bangladesh and efforts to ensure equal rights for all people to own land," said Ambassador Dr Stefan Frowein, the Head of the EU Delegation to Bangladesh. The EU said its funding will be used to finance the pilot phase of a computerized land ownership system in three districts of Bangladesh. If this phase is successful, the system can then be extended to the whole country.
The European Union and the government have signed an agreement worth 10 million Euros (Tk 95 million) aimed at strengthening ordinary citizens' property rights to land.
The "Strengthening Access to Land and Property Rights for all Citizens of Bangladesh" project will help modernise land administration in Bangladesh. Such modernisation should make the system more transparent and usable for every citizen and especially poor and disadvantaged people, and should also help fight the illegal practice of land-grabbing.
"If this reform and our new project are successful, poor people will get much easier access to land and property. We consider this an important contribution to the fight against poverty in Bangladesh and efforts to ensure equal rights for all people to own land," said Ambassador Dr Stefan Frowein, the Head of the EU Delegation to Bangladesh. The EU said its funding will be used to finance the pilot phase of a computerized land ownership system in three districts of Bangladesh. If this phase is successful, the system can then be extended to the whole country.