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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
Government Watch
department
The department is focused on accelerating the nationwide transition to a fully digital, ownership-based land management system while curbing corruption and resolving boundary disputes.
Ministry of Land issued a directive requiring all field-level officials to submit asset statements by June 25, 2026.
DLRS participated in the 57th Director General-level Border Coordination Conference in New Delhi.
Environment Minister confirmed DLRS is prioritizing survey and boundary demarcation of forest land under the Forest and Tree Conservation Act, 2026.
DLRS reported progress on digital land surveys in Chhatak and Juri upazilas using drones and electronic total stations.
Digital land record rooms were launched in 21 districts for online access to records of rights.
established_year: DLRS traces origins to 1885 (Survey Department) and 1888 (independent directorate); reconstituted in its current departmental form in 1975 post-independence. Wikipedia and BSS/TBS sources both confirm 1975 as the operative independent establishment date; 1888 is used as the legal founding in some official documents. staff_count: 2,524 is the sanctioned-post count from the November 2024 DLRS job circular (dlrs.teletalk.com.bd), covering 14 categories including surveyors, record keepers, khariz assistants, and peshkars -- this is the vacancy count in one circular and is a lower-bound proxy for sanctioned strength, not the full permanent establishment. annual_budget_bdt: not separately published; DLRS budget is embedded in the Ministry of Land and project-specific DPP allocations. current_head: multiple DLRS web pages list 'Md. Mahmudul Hasan' (also rendered 'Mahmud Hasan') as Director General Grade-1; an earlier listing showed 'Md. Saidur Rahman' -- the Mahmudul Hasan listing appears on the more recent officer page. head_since is null because no primary source gives the appointment date. verification_status is 'partial' because (a) the DG appointment date and current-head identity could not be confirmed from a dated primary source with SSL-verified access, and (b) annual budget figure is not publicly disaggregated. Key institutional note: DLRS and the Survey of Bangladesh (SoB, sob.gov.bd) are distinct -- SoB handles topographic and national mapping while DLRS handles cadastral records and mauza maps. The e-mutation platform is at mutation.land.gov.bd and is operated by the Ministry of Land, not DLRS directly, but DLRS provides the underlying cadastral data. The 10 million resolved / 500,000 pending e-mutation figures are from the BSS special report (May 11, 2026) citing Ministry of Land data -- these figures cover the national e-mutation system, not DLRS alone.