<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Land Minister Narayan Chandra Chanda today said that the capacity of the Land Reforms Board will be increased.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Land Minister made this statement while addressing the chief guest at a meeting held to inform the activities of the Land Reforms Board at the Board's conference room in Bhumi Bhaban, Tejgaon, in the capital today evening. Chairman of the Land Reforms Board, Md Abdus Sabur Mondal, was also present at the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Land Minister told that the Ministry of Land is directly overseeing various field-level activities during this transitional period of implementing smart land services. He emphasized that after the implementation of the smart land service program, the agencies under the ministry will be fully responsible for supervising day-to-day activities, with the Ministry of Land playing a regulatory role.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Additionally, the Land Minister highlighted the importance of identifying khas and government land currently under illegal occupation, as well as identifying water bodies that have been filled or encroached upon. He stressed the need for necessary measures to be taken for their restoration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Chairman of the Land Reforms Board pledged to the Land Minister that the board would fulfill its responsibilities under the Ministry of Land's 180-day program.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also present at the meeting were Land Reforms Board member Shashanka Shekhar Bhowmik and officials from the Ministry of Land and the Land Reforms Board.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/R/fas</div>