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Katha or Biswa (also spelled kattha or cottah; Hindi: कट्ठा, Assamese: কঠা, Bengali: কাঠা) is a unit of area mostly used for land measurement in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. After metrication in the mid-20th century by these countries, the unit became officially obsolete. But this unit is still in use in much of ...
Bigha is a traditional unit of land in entire Bangladesh, with land purchases still being undertaken in this unit. One bigha is equal to 20 Katha (14,400 square feet or 1,600 square yard) as standardized in pre-partition Bengal during the British rule.
In July 2011, the government of Bangladesh started the 'Digital Land Management' project to digitize land records in Bangladesh. According to the project a data centre will be built at the Land Record and Survey Department headquarters in Dhaka. By October 2017 650 thousand bhumi khatians (records of land rights) were digitized. [5]
minland.gov.bd: The Ministry of Land ... Land Administration Training Centre (LATC) References This page was last edited on 22 October 2024, at 03:48 (UTC). Text is ...
In 2018, the land area increased to 29426 km 2 (57.21%); an increase of 590 km 2 (1.15%). The land area in 1999 and 2009 was 56.49% and 56.68%, respectively, with a total increase of 0.19%. The island reformation tendency showed that the new land area increased every year by an average of 20 km 2 (0.038) along the coastal region of Bangladesh ...
SOB began as the "Bengal Survey" on 1 January 1767 in undivided India and conducted surveying and mapping activities until 1947. After the partition of the subcontinent on 14 August 1947, the organization started its new role as Survey of Pakistan and established a regional office at Dhaka.
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Bangladesh is divided into 8 divisions (bibhag) and 64 districts (jela, zila, zela), although, these have only a limited role in public policy.For the purposes of local government, the country is divided into upazilas (sub-districts), "municipalities" or town councils (pourashova), city corporations (i.e. metropolitan municipal corporations) and union councils (i.e. rural councils).