Land Secretary Md. Muksodur Rahman Patwary said there is no alternative to the practice of integrity in establishing efficient, modern, and sustainable land management and ensuring Pro-people public services related to land.
He said this while addressing the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Land for the preparation of the 1st Quarterly Report of the National Integrity Strategy Action Plan on Tuesday at the conference room of the Ministry of Land in the Secretariat, said a press release.
A clear qualitative change has taken place at the (land) ministry level under the leadership of Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury.
We are in the process of gradually bringing this qualitative change up to the Union Land Office level. We can implement it by practicing integrity - The Land Secretary further said.
Additional Secretaries of the Ministry of Land and other officials including the heads of various agencies under the Land Ministry attended the meeting.
It is to be noted that, the 'National Integrity Strategy' was approved by the government of Bangladesh in 2012. To implement this strategy, the National Integrity Advisory Council has been formed under the leadership of the Prime Minister and the Executive Committee of the National Integrity Advisory Council has been formed under the leadership of the Finance Minister.
Ethics Committees have been formed in all Ministries and Divisions and the Departments and Agencies under those (Ministries and Divisions) to implement the Integrity Strategy. All the Ministries and Divisions of the government formulate strategies for the implementation of this Integrity Strategy.