Steps for digitisation of land management system proposed
Friday, 8 June 2012
FE Report
The government has proposed to take necessary steps for digitalisation of the land management system aiming to ensure transparency and accountability and updating land records and making them available online for the people.
"Once the Digital Land Management System (DLMS) is in place, the beneficiaries of district and Upazila levels will get the latest information on records and maps of any plot in the concerned district in the quickest possible time," said the finance minister AMA Muhith in parliament while placing the national budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2012-13.
He said the implementation of this project would begin as soon as possible and completed throughout the country in next two years.
The Finance Minister in his budget speech said the prime objective of the present government is to bring discipline in country's land management system.
"Land is the scarcest resource of Bangladesh. Therefore, there is no alternative to ensuring optimum use of land.
Accordingly, we took special care in dealing with land management issues while formulating the proposed budget for FY2012-13," he said.
"The implementation of this roadmap will begin immediately. Adequate allocation has been made for this purpose in this budget. Once this initiative is fully implemented, every land owner will be given a CLO which, in turn, will help solve all disputes in land ownership. Besides, all land related services (survey, registration, changes in ownership and category) will be delivered from the same office," he said
Having taken all these measures we, now, plan to prepare a roadmap for a system of total land management which will be performed by one single office. Within next three months, Ministry of Land, together with DLRS, Directorate of Registration, SPARSO and development partners, will finalise this roadmap, Mr Muhith said.
This project will be implemented by the private sector on BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) basis retaining overall control in the hands of the government. For this, feasibility of participation of various organisations has been studied following Public Private Partnership (PPP) principles. In order to save implementation time, the entire task of computerising Khatiayn and Mouza maps as well as digitalising land records and survey will be shared among area-wise local private organisations. There will be a provision for distribution of khatiyans and maps with the help of private organizations, he also mentioned.
Finance minister said his speech "In the previous budget, I promised to take steps for digitization of the land management system. Our key objective is to ensure transparency and accountability in land administration and management through introduction of digital land management system for both updating land records and making them available online, conducting digital survey with satellite technology, preparing digital maps and records, and introducing Certificate of Land Ownership (CLO) in place of the existing land records (khatiyan).
The government has proposed to take necessary steps for digitalisation of the land management system aiming to ensure transparency and accountability and updating land records and making them available online for the people.
"Once the Digital Land Management System (DLMS) is in place, the beneficiaries of district and Upazila levels will get the latest information on records and maps of any plot in the concerned district in the quickest possible time," said the finance minister AMA Muhith in parliament while placing the national budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2012-13.
He said the implementation of this project would begin as soon as possible and completed throughout the country in next two years.
The Finance Minister in his budget speech said the prime objective of the present government is to bring discipline in country's land management system.
"Land is the scarcest resource of Bangladesh. Therefore, there is no alternative to ensuring optimum use of land.
Accordingly, we took special care in dealing with land management issues while formulating the proposed budget for FY2012-13," he said.
"The implementation of this roadmap will begin immediately. Adequate allocation has been made for this purpose in this budget. Once this initiative is fully implemented, every land owner will be given a CLO which, in turn, will help solve all disputes in land ownership. Besides, all land related services (survey, registration, changes in ownership and category) will be delivered from the same office," he said
Having taken all these measures we, now, plan to prepare a roadmap for a system of total land management which will be performed by one single office. Within next three months, Ministry of Land, together with DLRS, Directorate of Registration, SPARSO and development partners, will finalise this roadmap, Mr Muhith said.
This project will be implemented by the private sector on BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) basis retaining overall control in the hands of the government. For this, feasibility of participation of various organisations has been studied following Public Private Partnership (PPP) principles. In order to save implementation time, the entire task of computerising Khatiayn and Mouza maps as well as digitalising land records and survey will be shared among area-wise local private organisations. There will be a provision for distribution of khatiyans and maps with the help of private organizations, he also mentioned.
Finance minister said his speech "In the previous budget, I promised to take steps for digitization of the land management system. Our key objective is to ensure transparency and accountability in land administration and management through introduction of digital land management system for both updating land records and making them available online, conducting digital survey with satellite technology, preparing digital maps and records, and introducing Certificate of Land Ownership (CLO) in place of the existing land records (khatiyan).