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.Kingdom of Cambodia - Government organization 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.
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),Maps Open Development Cambodia. See Economic Land Concessions, Concessions For Mining and Forest Concessions. 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. 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.Topic: Land Issues LICADHO. Accessdate: February 20th 2014.
Departments The Ministry is currently organized into 6 administrative areas: Ministry - Offices of the Ministry cabinet and primary bureaux of the ministry.Ministry listings and organization General Departments - Administration, human resources, budgeting, and so forth.General departments, at Ministry site Provincial and Municipal Departments - The Ministry maintains provincial department offices in each provincial capitalProvincial department directory, at Ministry site Council of Land PolicyCouncil of Land Policy, at Ministry site National Cadastral CommissionCadastral Commission, at Ministry site - Creates and maintains cadastral maps and works with Administrative Commission to resolve land ownership and land use conflicts. National Social Land Concession CommitteeNational Social Land Concession Committee, at Ministry site
Ministers PortraitNameTenurePartyFromToIm Chhun Lim19995 April 2016CPPChea Sophara5 April 2016PresentCPP
See also Government of Cambodia Land use forecasting
References
External links Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction