Dhaka: Following the urgent instructions of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, piloting of an improved version and easy-to-use software of e-mutation has already begun in 19 land circles of Dhaka district as part of the rapid progress of land digitisation. Under the Information and Communication Technology Division, four types of land services have also been made available online for the country’s people.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the services include LD Tax (nationwide), e-mutation (pilot phase, 19 circles of Dhaka), e-parcha, e-khatian, and mouza map (across the country). The LD Tax service has been opened nationwide, and land revenue collection of about Taka 200 crore has already been completed, as stated in a press release from the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing.
To ease the suffering of people, the interim government has initiated the launch of a modern ‘Land Service Gateway’ by interconnecting four services, including LD tax, e-mutation, e-parcha, and e-khatian. This integration will eliminate the need for separate registrations, making it simpler to provide land services to citizens once opened to all land circles across the country.
Since e-mutation is systematically linked to the judicial process and involves multiple organisations and departments, more adequate piloting is needed to simplify the procedural aspects of this service and streamline the e-document system. Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, along with Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Land ASM Saleh Ahmed and Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser Faiz Ahmed Taiyeb, are working jointly on the transformation of land services.
In the next phase of land service digitisation, training will be provided to private entrepreneurs and those at the union parishad digital centres. This initiative aims to make online land services accessible to entrepreneurs at the union parishad and ward levels.
Over 70 percent of the total cases and crimes under trial in Bangladesh courts are related to land ownership, occupation, dispossession, acquisition, and transfer. The interim government is committed to making land services available to citizens as quickly as possible through this user-friendly software.