Md Muksodur Rahman Patwary

Md Muksodur Rahman Patwary is a retired civil servant and member of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission. He is the former senior secretary of the Ministry of Land and served under Saifuzzaman Chowdhury. He was an Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division.

Early life Patwary was born on 1 January 1962 in Faridganj Upazila, Chandpur District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. He completed SSC and HSC from Chandra Imam Ali High School and College and Chandpur Government College. He joined the service in 1988.

Patwary was an Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division in 2016. He served as the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. He worked on digitalizing the record system and land tax collection at the Ministry of Land. He established the National Committee on Monitoring and Reviewing the Land Services Digitization. He created Hotline 16122 and hotline.land.gov.bd for the Ministry of Land as part of the Digital Bangladesh policy of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He chaired a committee to protect rivers and prevent illegal sand extraction.

In December 2022, Justices M Enayetur Rahim and Mostafizur Rahman of the High Court Division questioned why Patwary was still the secretary of Ministry of Land despite admitting to use three official cars illegally for his family. He defended himself saying "90 percent" government secretaries do it.