e-mutation begins from 17th March: Saifuzzaman

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DHAKA, Jan 20, 2020 (BSS) – Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury today announced that e-mutation (Digital Mutation) will be introduced from March 17 instead of existing manual mutation.

“No manual mutation will be done from March 17 and the land offices will not accept manual applications,” he told this, while presiding over a coordination meeting of divisional commissioners at his ministry conference room.

The minister said the government will also install solar panel system at those land offices where electricity facility is inadequate.

“We are determined to make the mutation process digitalized from this year, the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” Saifuzzaman said.

Meanwhile, the government created 17 posts of Assistant Commissioner of Land (AC Land) and handed over 55 double cabin pickups to AC (land) revenue circle, he said.

Among others, land secretary Md Maksudur Rahman, additional secretary Pradip Kumar Das, deputy secretary Momtaz Begum and officers concerned were present at the meeting.