Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (Cambodia)

Not to be confused with the Ministry of Planning, Cambodia.

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) is a government ministry of Cambodia. The Ministry is responsible for governing land use, urban planning, construction projects, and for the resolution of land use conflicts. The current Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction is Chea Sophara.[1] and the Central offices of the ministry are located in Phnom Penh. In 2012, the ministry provided licenses to 1,694 construction projects, down 20% from 2,125 projects in a year earlier, but at a higher value. [2]

Land grabbing, illegal concessions and corruption

In the years of 2007-8 the Cambodian Government, was responsible for the sale of 45% of the total landmass in Cambodia to primarily foreign investors. Parts of these concessions are wildlife protections or national parks even (See Botum Sakor National Park for example),[3] and the vast majority of the Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) have been issued in violation of Cambodia’s 2001 Land Law and its Subdecree on ELCs.[4] The landsales has been perceived by observers, to be the result of land grabbing and corruption within the judicial system, ministries and government bureaucracy of Cambodia. The landsales are potentially threatening more than 150,000 Cambodians directly with eviction and affecting more than 400,000. Already thousands of citizens had fallen victims of forced evictions, stirring serious unrest across the country.[5][6][7]

Departments

The Ministry is currently organized into 6 administrative areas:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kingdom of Cambodia - Government organization
  2. ↑ "Cambodia construction sector takes off". Investvine.com. 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  3. ↑ Maps Open Development Cambodia. See Economic Land Concessions, Concessions For Mining and Forest Concessions.
  4. ↑ "Submission to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review, Cambodia" (PDF). Universal Periodic Review 2013. LICADHO. 2013. p. 1.
  5. ↑ Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark (April 26, 2008). "Country for sale". The Guardian. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
  6. ↑ Andreas Lorenz (November 27, 2013). "Land Grab: Foreign Firms Drive Cambodians from Farms". Der Spiegel.
  7. ↑ Topic: Land Issues LICADHO. Accessdate: February 20th 2014.
  8. ↑ Ministry listings and organization
  9. ↑ General departments, at Ministry site
  10. ↑ Provincial department directory, at Ministry site
  11. ↑ Council of Land Policy, at Ministry site
  12. ↑ Cadastral Commission, at Ministry site
  13. ↑ National Social Land Concession Committee, at Ministry site

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