Following urgent directives from Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, piloting of an enhanced version of the e-Mutation system—featuring user-friendly software—has commenced in 19 land circles within Dhaka district, as part of the government’s accelerated land digitisation initiative.
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 (nationwide), e-Mutation (pilot phase, 19 circles of Dhaka), e-Parcha (nationwide), e-Khatian and Mouza Map (nationwide), said a press release on Sunday.
The LD Tax service has been made available nationwide. Land revenue collection of about Tk200 crore has already been completed.
To reduce citizen suffering, instead of providing digital land services through 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 eliminate the need for 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,” the release added.
Since e-mutation is procedurally linked to the judicial process, as well as involving multiple agencies and departments, more adequate piloting is needed to streamline the procedural aspects of this service and streamline the e-documentation system.
The chief adviser himself and his office, Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Land ASM Saleh Ahmed, and Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser, 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 digitisation, 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% of the total cases and crimes in the courts of Bangladesh are centred 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.