The government will estimate the volume of khas land in the possession of its different ministries and divisions in the next two months and prepare a central database on the government land, said planning adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Wednesday...
GOVERNMENT land settlement is still much unsettled, lacking in transparency and mired in colonial practices. Bangladesh鈥檚 constitution has emphasised the establishment of a society free of hunger, bestowed with the right of equal access to resources. The Agricultural Khas Land Management and Settlement Policy 1997 and Section 7 of the Land Reforms Act 2023 lay...
The local administration and police are allegedly colluding with land grabbers to evict the landless people from the khas land of Sonaidanga Bil, a stretch of lowland at Dhamsonai village of Raiganj in Sirajganj...