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.
The court ordered the Rajuk chairman to submit a report within 30 days on whether the incident is authentic and 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 suo muto (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, documents of around 30,000 clients seeking permission for building constructionshave reportedly gone missing from the Rajuk servers.
The Rajuk authorities learnt it on December 6 last year. The documents that went missing were filed between May 2019 and December 6, 2022, said a Rajuk official.
The housing and public works ministry on Sunday directed the Rajuk to form a probe committee in this regard and submit a report within the next seven working days.
A ministry officialsaid, "We'll knowhow the incident happened after getting the probe report," he said.
Muhammad Kamruzzaman, director (administration) of Rajuk, told The Daily Star yesterday that he was yet to get the letter in this regard from the Rajuk chairman's office and that 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 after submitting a plan.
This work had earlier been done manually.
Rajuk started issuing land use clearance certificate digitally for all zones in 2018. It also began issuing building plan approvals in May 2019.
Clients can apply for land use plan certificates and approvals of building plans by registering with https://cp.rajuk.gov.bd.
On August 23, last year, Rajuk approved a Detailed Area Plan (DAP).
Sources at Rajuk said according to DAP, people could now construct buildings with lesser height, than usual, in most areas.
On requests from landowners and realtors, Rajuk decided that those who submitted their land use plan applications before the gazette notification regarding the DAP could construct their buildings as per earlier rules when there was a scope for constructing buildings with greater heights, they said.
Rajuk published a notice in this regard on December 4. Just a day after, Rajuk website crashed, sources said.
A section of people might have been involved in this to show that they submitted their documents before the gazette notification was issued, the sources said.
Kazi Mohammad Mahbubul Haque, chief of the department of management information system at Rajuk, however, said all the data submitted was still in the Rajuk servers.
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."
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