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RAJSHAHI, June 25, 2025 (BSS)- Speakers at a discussion here today 
unequivocally called for ensuring transparency and accountability in digital land survey.
 
Simultaneously, peoples' participation can be the crucial means of making the digital land survey activities people-friendly and free from harassment.
 
Land experts and development activists came up with the observation while 
addressing a workshop titled "Role of civil society in digital land survey" organised by Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) at the conference hall of NGO Forum for Public Health in the city.
 
During his keynote paper, Muhammad Zillur Rahman, consultant of Establishment of Digital Land Management System Project of the Land Record and Survey Department, illustrated the technical and legal sides of digital land survey.
 
He told the meeting that complexities related to land ownership will be 
reduced to a greater extent upon successful completion of digital survey. 
Besides, the land owners will get flawless khatians and area maps easily.
 
He also said the digital land survey in 40 locations (mouza) in Rajshahi is being implemented using 3D satellite imagery to automate the creation of Khatian and maps, potentially eliminating the need for manual land surveys and reducing public harassment related to land ownership transfers.
 
This initiative aims to streamline land management processes and improve land services by leveraging modern technology.
 
"Hundred percent land mutation online is in process at present," he said, 
adding that the project for digital land survey is being implemented in 
Rajshahi through collecting three dimensional satellite images. 
 
There will be no need for manual land survey upon successful implementation of digital land survey. Khatian and the Map will be prepared automatically in terms of ownership transfer. The venture will save the public from the long-lasting harassment.
 
Professor Sabrina Naz from the Department of Botany at Rajshahi University (RU), Assistant Settlement Officers Ananta Kumar Mukutmoni and Ashoke Dutta and development activists Mustafizur Rahman and Afzal Hossain also spoke on the occasion.