As per the urgent instructions of Principal Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus, as part of accelerating the work of land digitization, piloting of improved version of e-mutation and easy-to-use software has already started in 19 land circles of Dhaka district.
Under the leadership of the Information and Communication Technology Department, four types of land services have also been made available online for citizens. The services are – LD Tax (all over the country), e-mutation (pilot phase, 19 circles of Dhaka), e-parcha (all over the country), e-khatian and mouza map (all over the country).
The LD Tax service has been opened all over the country. Land revenue collection of about Tk 200 crore has already been completed.
To reduce citizen suffering, instead of providing digital land services in separate software systems, the government has taken the initiative to launch a modern ‘Land Service Gateway’ by interconnecting four services including LD Tax, e-Mutation, e-Parcha/e-Khatian. This will not require separate registration for the services. If this single service gateway is opened to all land circles across the country, it will be possible to provide land services to citizens more easily.
Since e-Mutation is systematically linked to the judicial process, as well as involving multiple organizations and departments, more adequate piloting is needed to simplify the procedural aspects of this service and simplify the e-document system.
The Chief Advisor himself and his office, Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Land ASM Saleh Ahmed and Special Assistant to the Chief Advisor in charge of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Faiz Ahmed Tayyab are working jointly on the transformation of land services.
In the next phase of land service digitization, training will be provided to private entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of Union Digital Center. Through this, there is a plan to open online land services to entrepreneurs at the union and ward levels.
More than 70 percent of the total cases and crimes in the courts of Bangladesh are centered on land ownership, occupation, dispossession, acquisition and transfer. In this situation, the government is committed to opening land services to citizens as quickly as possible through easy-to-use software.
