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Land mutation to be completed within eight days of registration

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The cabinet has approved a proposal of introducing an automated system that will enable mutation of land within eight days of registration.

The proposal was approved during the weekly meeting of the cabinet on Monday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting held at the secretariat. She joined the meeting virtually from Ganabhaban, reports UNB.

“It’s a landmark decision. It’ll bring great relief for all, including investors and the general people of the country. It’ll reduce the sufferings of people, minimise the time in mutation and lessen the backlog of land-related cases,” said Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam at a press briefing after the cabinet meeting.

The cabinet secretary said sub-registrar offices under the law ministry conduct registration process of lands and offices of Assistant Commissioner (Land), or AC (Land), under the land ministry complete the mutation of registered lands.

“With the approval of the proposal, now there will be coordination between sub-registrar offices and AC land offices,” he said.

Anwarul said the AC Land offices have an online database of some 43.0 million records of rights and the sub-registration offices will have access to the database to verify the record of rights of land before its registration.

The AC land offices will also get information about the registration of land automatically through the software. Besides, the AC land office will get one manual copy of a land document following its registration.

“So, it’ll take a maximum of eight days for the AC (land) to complete the mutation of a land after registration,” said the cabinet secretary, adding that the new system has already been introduced in 17 upazilas of the country.

Replying to a question, Anwarul Islam said it may take one year to introduce the new system throughout the country.

Now the software of record of rights is effective for the sale and buying of lands only, but the software has a feature to keep the record of inherited properties in the future, he said.

About the record of inherited land property, the prime minister directed the authorities concerned to pay special attention so that the transgender people are not deprived of the rights to the inherited property during recording, the cabinet secretary added.

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