SHAH ALAM – Accurate and easy-to-use data on land development is very much needed in line with the recent progress of the Industrial Revolution 4.0.
Selangor Menteri Besar, Amirudin Shari said the failure to develop efficient land data would be problematic in the long run as the dynamics of current management differed according to local changes.
“This (land data) is a request from the general public from time to time. The existence of what we call e-land must have been said for years,” said Amirudin.
“In reality, we have not yet been able to develop a comprehensive system that is accessible to officers to submit land data quickly and accurately,” he noted.
“For Selangor, we started in 2009 and 2010 with the creation of a committee to ensure that the land data is digitized and accessible to our officials (state government),” Amirudin stated.
“With such a slow approach what can I say is that almost 90 per cent of the current land tax in the state can be collected because of our ability to manage and obtain accurate data.”
He said this when delivering the opening speech of the 2019 Land Administration and Development Seminar at Hotel De Palma here today.
He said the availability of land data could reduce problems often raised such as fraud and duplication of applications.
The seminar is organized by the University of Technology Malaysia (UTM) through a postgraduate program in Land Administration and Development, Faculty of Architecture and Surveys in collaboration with the Research and Development Studies (LAnDS) Study Group and the Selangor State Secretary’s Office.
With the theme of Land Management in Malaysia: Dynamic Approaches to National Development, this seminar is also a step towards strengthening relationships between universities and government bodies and the private sector in addressing various issues of governance and land development in Malaysia.
It is also seen to play an important role in explaining the new direction of land administration and development for sustainable nation-building.
