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ECNEC approves Tk 337.60cr national digital land zoning project
DHAKA, Sept 29, 2020 (BSS) – The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved a total of four projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 796.45 crore, including a Taka 337.60 crore project for mouza and plot-based national digital land zoning in a bid to ensure proper land management at the field-level.
The approval came from the 10th ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year (FY21) held with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
The premier chaired the meeting virtually from her official Ganobhaban residence while concerned ministers, state ministers and secretaries joined the meeting from the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.
Of the approved four projects, three are new while the remaining one is a revised project.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Planning Minister MA Mannan said, “Out of the total project cost of Taka 796.45 crore, Taka 623.65 crore will come from the government of Bangladesh while the rest Taka 172.80 crore as project assistance,”
Terming this national digital land zoning project as a ‘grand’ project, Mannan said there will be a digital database of land under this project and every plot will be characterized by its nature.
He said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the meeting opined that once this project is implemented properly, the land related disputes and other related incidents will come down significantly alongside the influence of the middlemen in this regard.
The premier also stressed the need for bringing the countrywide sub-registrar offices of land under the digital system to further ease the land registration process and thus reduce the sufferings of the service seekers.
Planning Commission member Md Zakir Hossain Akand said the Land Ministry will implement the Mouza and plot-based national digital land zoning project by June 2024 with entire government fund.
He informed that the project will cover some 56,348 mouzas under 4,562 unions of 493 upazilas in all the 64 districts of the country.
Zakir said that satellite image will be used for this digital land zoning while the mouza maps will also be digitalized.
The main project operations include collection, scanning, digitization, database creation, edit plot checking, georeferencing mouza map, matching of mouza map and field checking of some 138412 sheets of maps.
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