Directorate of Registration

Head

Md. Nur Islam

Role

Inspector General of Registration

Annual budget

n/a

Staff

n/a

Established

1973

Legal basis

Registration Act, 1908 (Act No. XVI of 1908), Sections 3-6 (Inspector-General and registering officers); upgraded from Registration Department to Directorate by government order in January 2018. Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026 and Registration (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2026 further amend nine sections of the 1908 Act to introduce e-registration and strengthen fee-collection accountability.

The Directorate is currently focused on curbing corruption in sub-registrar postings and accelerating the automation of land registration services to improve transparency.

Established 1973 as the Registration Department; upgraded to Directorate of Registration by government order in January 2018. The head title is Inspector General of Registration (IGR); Md. Nur Islam is identified as IGR in a Law and Justice Division document dated 23 December 2024 (old.lawjusticediv.gov.bd), which is the most recent primary-source confirmation of the current head; head_since date is unverified and left null. Former IGR Khan Md Abdul Mannan (predecessor) faces ACC investigation and court-imposed travel ban as of 27 May 2025 for systemic corruption during his tenure. The two January 2026 ordinances are legally operative but their conversion to permanent acts of parliament within the constitutionally mandated timeframe was unconfirmed in sources available at verification date; they remain valid until parliament acts. E-registration pilot districts (Dhaka, Gazipur, Jashore) sourced from Dhaka Tribune op-ed and New Age opinion piece -- both reference the same pilot; these are editorial sources rather than official government press releases. Staff count, sanctioned posts, and annual budget allocation are not published in accessible primary sources and are left null rather than estimated. The mutation-registration merger proposal is a publicly debated reform concept (New Age, BSS) but has not been implemented as of verification date. The website listed on Wikipedia is http://www.rd.gov.bd/ (HTTP); the HTTPS version https://rd.gov.bd is the current live site but could not be fetched due to SSL certificate issues during verification -- URL recorded as https://rd.gov.bd per standard practice.