About 80 per cent land-related cases could be resolved by introducing a modern and digital land record and management system, reports BSS.

The existing land management and the record of rights (ROR) are plagued with lack of transparency, complicacy and sluggishness, which create ownership problems besides pending of a large number of criminal cases in the courts, land officials said these Sunday while opening the online tender process.

The Department of Land Record and Survey (DLRS) organised the function.

A modern and digitised land management and record system will ensure legal ownership and accountability, and also reduce all kinds of anomalies and corruption, they pointed out.

Land Minister M Rezaul Karim Hira attended the function as the chief guest while Director General of the DLRS M Aslam Alam chaired the session.

Inaugurating the online tender process, Rezaul said the modern and digitised land management system would reduce all kinds of land-related disputes and provide instant services for people.

The government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is working for digital Bangladesh as per Vision-2021, the minister said adding that the digital survey under the land-based global positioning system (GPS), computerisation and automation in preparing the record of rights would help implement the outline of digital Bangladesh.

Although the country has a lot of problems, but we have already submitted a mega-project on digitalisation of the land sector involving Tk 30 billion, said the DG of the DLRS.

Under the programme, the high official said the government would bring all the upazilas under the digitised land record system within next two years through preparing a database of land and archiving the record of rights followed by a successful implementation of a pilot project on the digital land record at Palash Upazila in Narshingdi.