Mongolia – Fully Digitalized Land Registration Government Services.

On October 1, 2021, Mongolia introduced an electronic land registration system and fully digitalized land registration government services.
 

This allows citizens and businesses to receive documents related to land possession and use them free of charge, reducing unnecessary permits, queues, and paperwork.
 

Previously, the issuance of these documents required the consent of more than 10 different officials. The Ulaanbaatar Governor's Office receives more than 6,100 applications for permits each month, and citizens waited around 30 to 60 days to receive their contracts after the land ordinance was issued. “It is reported that the long queue time, and taking consent from many public officials cost the citizens 100 million tugriks (USD 35 thousand) per month and 1.2 billion tugriks (USD 421 thousand) per year in securities fees. The establishment of a new digital system will result in significant time and economic saving.” Said Mr. Buyandelger, Deputy Director of the Department of Land Management, Geodesy, and Cartography on October 20, 2021.
 

Since the transition to the electronic system, 2,983 citizens and businesses have received their land certificates online. This saved approximately 58.5 million tugriks (USD 20 thousand) in securities fees.
 

The Department of Land Management, Geodesy and Cartography has introduced a one-stop “e-service” in 21 province centers, which allows rural residents who do not have access to the Internet to receive land certificates, cadastral maps, and verification conclusions free of charge.
 

The Prime Minister of Mongolia intensified the fight against corruption and established a working group to improve the Corruption Perceptions Index on July 14, 2021, which includes the senior officials of the Independent Authority Against Corruption, Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs and other relevant authorities. In connection with the establishment of the working group, a special hotline for civil service bureaucracy was opened at the Government's Public Relations Center, and complaints from the public were received and resolved promptly.
 

Mr. Nyambaatar, the head of the working group and the Minister of Justice and Home Affairs, met with the directors of the capital city and district land offices in August 2021 to discuss land disputes and obliged land registration offices to resolve all disputes in 60 days, as well as eliminating the risk of bureaucracy and corruption in the offices. The above-mentioned electronic system has been introduced in accordance with the tasks of the working group.
 

At the Cabinet meeting held on September 15, 2021, the government instructed the relevant senior officials to make land possessors’ information transparent to the public. In this context, the names of citizens and companies participating in the electronic land auction have been announced. Citizens can access the land registration website “egazar.gov.mn” and view above-mentioned information openly.