Bribery is rampant at the district and sub-registrar offices across the country, where the people have to pay bribes from Tk 500 to 500,000 at each and every step for land related services, says Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).
TIB revealed the findings of a research titled ‘Ways to overcome obstacles for good governance in registration and services sector of land documents’ at a media call at its offices on Monday (Sept 9).
The district registrar and sub-registrar offices are among the most corrupt places in the country, TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman said adding that “Land related services have become synonymous to corruption”.
TIB also revealed the amount of internal illegal money transaction in the sector.
Bribes starting from Tk 20,000 to Tk 2 million changes hands for recruitment, promotion and other processes, it said.
The report also suggested 15 recommendations to the government for providing proper service to citizens and to make the land sector transparent and corruption free.
The anti-graft watchdog also recommended that the government should increase institutional competency in the land sector to curb corruption. Also, there should be total digitization of entire land administration and management, TIB recommended.