Railway West Zone land records show discrepancy
In a special audit, the Railway Audit Directorate (RAD) has found discrepancies in the land records of the West Zone of Bangladesh Railway.
The audit report said the inconsistencies proved that the BR did not keep its land records in a proper register book.
A 2008 inventory at the office of Chief Estate Officer showed the total land of the railway West Zone at 38,971 acres. One year later, the amount of land was reduced by 795 acres to 38,176 acres in the document.
The railway officials provided the accounts of land on the basis of assumptions, and it can be considered as an irregularity, said M Matiar Rahman, director general of RAD, who signed the audit report on November 2, 2011.
The Daily Star has recently obtained the document.
Inconsistencies were also found in the records of the landed property of Pakshey Division of West Zone.
The land under the Division was shown to be 26,409 acres in 2003, while it was increased by 467 acres to 26,876 acres in a fresh document in 2010.
A 2003 record showed that 15,181 acres of land was in use for railway operation under Pakshey Division. In 2010, the amount of the land was found to be 9,022 acres, 6,159 acres less than the 2003 figure.
The RAD discovered the inconsistencies while carrying out a special audit of the West Zone land for 2007-08 and 2009-10 financial years.
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