Land-related services cannot be obtained without bribery at any stage of the district registrar and sub-registrar offices, a report of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has revealed today.
"People have to pay a bribe of Tk 500 to 500,000 at each and every step of the district registrar and sub-registrar offices to get their desired land-related service," media reports say citing the TIB report.
While speaking at a press conference in Dhaka city where the report was published this morning, TIB executive director Iftekharuzzaman put the district registrar and sub-registrar offices among the most corrupt places in the country.
"Land related services have become synonymous with corruption”, he added.
The global anti-graft watchdog's Bangladesh chapter also revealed in its study how much illegal money is internally transacted in the sector, the media reports said.
A bribe of Tk 20,000 to Tk 2.0 million is traded for the recruitment, promotion and other processes, it said in the report titled “Ways to overcome obstacles for good governance in registration and services sector of land documents”.
The anti-graft watchdog recommended increasing institutional competency and introducing total digitisation in the land sector to curb corruption.