Digitisation helps to increase Tk 770cr revenue collection
Staff Reporter :
The government’s revenue has increased due to the digitisation of land services and average land revenue collection above Tk 5 crore per day.
Land Secretary Md. Khalilur Rahman came up with this while addressing at a workshop regarding the determination of new sectors for non-tax revenue income within the Ministry of Land.
The workshop took place in the meeting room of the Ministry of Land on Monday. Officials from the Ministry of Land, Finance Division and Land Services Digitisation Vendor companies attended the workshop.
Md. Khalilur Rahman also emphasised that under the overall direction of the Prime Minister and the direct supervision of Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, significant and unprecedented changes have taken place in land management digitisation over the past few years.
“As a result of this progress, revenue collection from land has increased significantly.
In addition to ensuring an efficient, transparent, and user-friendly land service management, the Ministry of Land aims to ensure the efficient collection of 100% revenue from the land sector for the public interest,” the Land Secretary said.
During the session, the secretary announced that, up to this point, approximately Tk 520 crore has been collected through the ‘Smart Land Development Tax’ system, about Tk 230 crore from the ‘Smart Mutation’ system, and about Tk 20 crore from the ‘Smart Land Records’ system.
Around Tk 770 crore, which have been collected through the automated challan system and promptly deposited in the government treasury, he said, adding that the daily average revenue is above Tk 5 crore.
The workshop participants discussed various areas of revenue growth, including key aspects such as the digital transfer of land acquisition compensation from the IBAS system directly to the landowner’s bank account, online verification of information related to Khas land, Acquired land, and Sairat Mahal through the land data bank.
Other topics included the productive use of Khas land, registration-mutation interconnection, completion of deed registration document writing through an automated system by paying the prescribed fee after land registration, creation of land classification and a database, digital monitoring through a dashboard, and the establishment of Kiosks in Union Land Offices.
The Ministry of Land is already in the process of implementing most of these proposed initiatives.
It should be noted that the primary sources of revenue derived from land include land development tax, fee collection for survey and land settlement, leasing of Hatabazar, Vested property, Abandoned property, water bodies, ponds, and sand quarries, etc.
