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Explain how 30,000 docs went missing from server
HC orders RajukThe High Court yesterday sought explanations from the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha about the reported incident of missing around 30,000 documents from its server.
The court ordered the Rajuk chairman to submit a report within 30 days on whether the incident is authentic, and if it is true, then what steps have been taken in this regard, Anti-Corruption Commission lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star yesterday.
The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat Lizu passed the order on a suomuto (voluntary) move after a report was published in the Prothom Alo.
Senior lawyer Khurshid placed the news report before the HC bench for a necessary order.
Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik represented the state.
According to the report, around 30,000 clients' documents seeking permission for constructing buildings have reportedly been missing from the Rajuk server.
The Rajuk authorities learnt it on December 6 last year. The documents that go missing were filed between May 2019 and December 6, 2022, to get approval for construction of buildings, said a Rajuk official.
The clients have feared to be harassed for missing of their documents.
The housing and public works ministry on Sunday directed the Rajuk to form a probe committee in this regard.
An official of the ministry said they been have asked to form the committee, comprising technology experts, and submit the report within the next seven working days.
"We will be able to know how the incident happened after getting the report," he said.
Muhammad Kamruzzaman, director (administration) of Rajuk, told The Daily Star yesterday that he was yet to get the letter from the Rajuk chairman's office and they would take steps after receiving the letter.
To construct any building in Rajuk area, the landowner has to get land use clearance certificate and building construction permission from Rajuk after submitting the plan. This work had earlier been done manually. But Rajuk started issuing land use clearance digitally in the zone-5 out of eight zones in 2016 and in their all zones in 2018. The Rajuk also started issuing approval of the building plan in May 2019.
Clients can apply for the land use plan and getting approval of building plans by registering with https://cp.rajuk.gov.bd.
On August 23 that year, Rajuk approved the Detailed Area Plan.
Sources at Rajuk said according to the DAP, people will be able to construct buildings with less height in most of the areas.
After requests of land owners and real estate businessmen, Rajuk decided that those who submitted their land use plan applications before the gazette notification was issued could construct their buildings as per earlier rules of Rajuk where there was a scope of construction buildings with having more heights, they said.
Rajuk published a notice in this regard on December 4. Just after a day of issuing the notice, the website went down, they said.
A section of people might have been involved in this to show that they submitted their documents before the gazette notification was issued, he said.
Kazi Mohammad Mahbubul Haque, chief of the department of management Information System at Rajuk, however, said all the data submitted was still preserved in the system of the Rajuk. Only the documents uploaded by applicants are missing, he added.
"The work of recovering the documents is going on and we are hopeful of completing the work shortly."
Explain how 30,000 docs went missing from servers
The High Court yesterday asked the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha to explain the disappearances of around 30,000 documents from Rajuk servers.
