A commendable initiative

For almost all people who have dealings with land, the visit to the land office can be daunting, because it often entails being swamped by brokers who promise the moon in return for a 'small fee', which is of course, speed money. The allegation that middlemen have monopolised practically all dealings at the land office is a very old one. Yet, people visiting the Sitakunda land office of late have been surprised now that they are met by Mr. Ruhul Amin, the AC (land) who took charge on July 13 and has done away with middlemen altogether. 

Mr. Amin sits at a booth at the entrance of the building. With this one simple act, he did away with the coterie of officials and middlemen who made people's access to him remote and near impossible. Such an occurrence is literally unheard of in land offices in the country and we are sure the honest officer is not making a lot of friends in his department. But at the end of the day, Mr. Amin has achieved a feat just by making himself available to people, who can now cut through the red-tape that plague our bureaucracy and practically single-handedly do away with graft.

We would like to thank this young civil servant who joined the service in 2012 for his dedication to the office he occupies. If only others would emulate what he has done, then people at the grassroots would greatly benefit from availing services that is theirs, by right.