BHAKTAPUR: In a bid to keep up with e-governance service recently introduced by the government, the Bhaktapur District Land Revenue Office (DLRO) has switched to online land registration service.

Officiating secretary at the Ministry of Land Reform and Management Nagendra Jha inaugurated the service on Wednesday.

As per the system, people can apply for registering land and transferring land ownership to other’s name online.

Supported by the Asian Development Bank, Bhaktapur DLRO is fifth office to operate the service. It aims at running the service in the total 14 DLROs across the country.

The service has already come into operation in Kalanki-based DLRO in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Dhading and Makawanpur.

Initially, the service has been applied to three VDCs in Bhaktapur - Sirutar, Gundu and Changunarayan - in the first phase, said DLRO Chief Mukti Prasad Acharya. \

He added that the service would be expanded to all other VDCs in the district within next two years.

The DLRO informed that it had kept details of 300,000 land owners online and the process to keep details of other land owners was on.

He said that land owners could view details of their land online.