Dhaka, Nov. 14 -- Deed registration will remain under the law ministry despite a proposal to bring the department under the land ministry, Law Minister Asaduzzaman has said.

He announced the decision at the annual general meeting of the Bangladesh Registration Service Association on Saturday.

"The land ministry's standing committee has already passed a resolution that your sub-registry department should come under the ministry. We have stated unequivocally from the law ministry that, as it falls under this ministry under the legal framework, it will remain here," he said.

Asaduzzaman said the registration department was the country's second-largest single source of revenue and played a major role in funding the national budget, yet rem...