{"id":14972,"date":"2020-06-06T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T06:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2020-06-06T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T08:41:18","slug":"bangladesh-develops-a-transparent-and-accountable-public-service-wins-un-public-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/14972","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh “develops a transparent and accountable public service”, wins UN public service award"},"content":{"rendered":"

DHAKA, Bangladesh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bangladesh on Friday won the 2020 UN Public Service Award in the category of “developing a transparent and accountable public service” for its e-mutation initiative to digitize the processing of land rights records.<\/p>\n

The initiative was “an outstanding achievement” that “demonstrated excellence in serving the public interest,” Liu Zhenmin, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said in a letter to Dhaka’s permanent UN representative.<\/p>\n

The initiative is a “significant contribution to the improvement of public administration” in Bangladesh and will “serve as an inspiration and encouragement for others working for the public service,” he said, according to a foreign ministry statement.<\/p>\n

The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs confers the Public Service Award each June 23 for innovative initiatives in the public sector.<\/p>\n

Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, it replaced this year’s event with a plan to initiate numerous outreach activities to showcase the winning initiatives online, including over UN social media channels.<\/p>\n

Every year, about 2.2 million land dispute cases are filed in Bangladesh. These tend to be time and effort-consuming, and officials have been accused of corruption.<\/p>\n

“People have to provide a good number of documents and prove in support of their claim to hand over or take the ‘record of rights’ of land in the country. But, the digitalization has brought a tremendous change in the process,” said Nilufa Yesmin, a senior government official.<\/p>\n

People can now receive service from their homes by using the online applications that reduce time and effort, she told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n

The apps were developed by the Access to Information (A2I) program initiated by the prime ministry, working with the Land Reform Board.<\/p>\n

Nilufa Yesmin, also a national consultant for e-filing practices at A2I, said land rights records were a very complex issue in the country for service providers and seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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