Officials involved with the land management system are reluctant to digitalize its services, governance watchdog Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has said in a new report titled “Union Digital Center in citizen services: Role, possibilities and challenges.”Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of TIB, made the remark during the report publishing ceremony at Meghdoot Conference Room of TIB on Sunday. On the other hand, 56% of service seekers were forced to pay Tk737 on average as bribe to retrieve their registration records in land offices at the district level. The service-seekers have not faced any financial corruption in UDCs but UDCs do not provide land registrations. The officials said the land registration service was not open in UDCs because all the land offices in the country do not have UDC facility yet. Almost all of the service-seekers, 93.2%, said they found UDC officials at the premises.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 03, 2017 18:00 UTC