According to the National Land Commission (NLC), the increasing number of land transactions on a daily basis coupled with lack of trained surveyors at the Dzongkhag and Thromdes immensely impacts the public service delivery.
The National Land Commission trained 34 youth this month in cadastral surveying and they were legitimatized as Certified Cadastral Surveyors today. The turnaround time (TAT) for land transaction is now expected to decrease drastically after the deployment of the newly trained cadastral surveyors.
The survey graduates from Jigme Namgyal Engineering College will now play a paramount role in reducing the TAT. As of now, land transaction management is hugely challenged with lack of proper surveyors in the field.
The first batch of certified cadastral surveyors can hardly wait to go out in the fields and start their businesses in surveying. Durga Prasad Basnet is one of the participants and he believes that the cadastral survey business will skyrocket.
“I feel that this training is very important. In the past, NCL faced a lot of problem with insufficient number of surveyors. We will be privately running a firm where we will be going to places serve the public. We will form a group and will visit villages and advertise what we can do. A lot of people in the villages suffer from not getting their landownership on time due to lack of cadastral surveyors,” Durga Prasad Basnet, Certified Cadastral Surveyor, said.
Cadastral Surveying is a survey that specializes in the establishment and re-establishment of real immovable property boundaries. The Certified Cadastral Surveyor will also complement the services already existing Certified Land Conveyances, a service that facilitates the citizens in executing online land transactions through eSakor Portal, an online based system. The program is also targeted at engaging unemployed youth in a productive manner.
