Land Adviser Ali Imam Majumder inaugurated the 139th Survey and Settlement Training Course today at the meeting room of the Karim Jute Mill in the Demra area of the city. Photo: PID

DHAKA, Feb 23, 2025(BSS) - Land Adviser Ali Imam Majumder today said that proper land management can ensure overall reform of the country because land is a vital resource that provides many of the basic needs of humans and other living things.

“All the basic needs come from land, so country’s overall reform can be achieved if proper land management is ensured,” he said while inaugurating the 139th Survey and Settlement Training Course at the meeting room of the Karim Jute Mill in city’s Demra area.

Director General of the Land Survey and Records Directorate Dr Md Mahmud Hassan presided over the opening session, which was addressed, among others, by Director (Land Records) Md Mominur Rashid and Director (Admin) Syed Rabiul Islam.

A total of 61 officers from the administration, police, judiciary and forest cadres participated in the training course.

Ali Imam Majumder said at the beginning of the human civilization, land is the first and principal demand of the human being. The land has been recognized as the first and main dependable and valuable asset of a man from his birth to death, he added.

Though the land is one of the main blessings of the nature, the adviser said, adding that its uses have been changed in line with the diversification of human civilization, knowledge and science.

In the modern world, the use of land and its management is interlinked with all the components of the national development plans like politics, economic, defense, national development, development planning and agriculture, said Majumder. 

The adviser also urged the participants of the training course to use the knowledge and experiences acquired from the training for the welfare of the common people.

Mentioning that there is an as usual fascination for the land properties and the people have been struggling for long to establish rights on the land, Ali Imam Majumder said as a result, most of the conflicts, enmity, rivalry and fight occur centering the issue of the land. 

Those who deals with human being and soil, law and order and the judiciary, they should have a clear idea on the land management and the land administration, the adviser said, adding, that  is why the government in every year organize survey and settlement training course for the administration, police, forest, railway and judicial officers of the civil service.