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Senior Secretary of Land Ministry Md. Muksodur Rahman Patwary and his team have won the 'Digital Bangladesh Award 2020' at the 'National Level' in the 'Government - General Category'.
They were awarded for taking the initiative to provide an online Record of Rights (ROR) and create Digital Record Rooms (DRR).
The other members of the team are the Director-General of Land Record and Survey Department Md. Taslimul Islam, Dhaka Divisional Commissioner Md. Mustafizur Rahman, a2i Project Director Dr. Md Abdul Mannan, Head of the Land Service Digitization Monitoring Cell and Land Secretary's PS Md. Doulutuzzaman Khan.
President Md. Abdul Hamid was present as the chief guest through video conferencing at the inauguration and award distribution ceremony on the occasion of 4th Digital Bangladesh Day, 2020 at Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Auditorium this Saturday morning.
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak handed over the medals and certificates to the winners on behalf of the President.
Initiatives were taken to create ROR and create DRR to easily provide ROR of various surveys to the landowners using modern technology. As a result of this initiative, millions of people are getting swift land services.
It is to be noted that Digital Bangladesh Day-2020 is being celebrated through various programmes in the District-Upazilas and Bangladesh embassies abroad with the theme of 'Even though I consider it as a distance, I'm still connected'.
On 12 December 2008, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced a programme to build a Digital Bangladesh.
This programme is the principal subsistence of Vision 2021. The main goal of it is to make the country a middle-income one by 2021 and to build a knowledge-based society.