The government has decided to resolve the city’ s housing crisis through taking Bat proj¬ects instead of pia onesconsidering its growing population, said Housing and Public Works Minister Engi¬neer Mesharraf Hussain on Tuesday. The government from now on won’t take any mere plot prcied on its own initiative or through Rajdhani Unnayan KarNipakkha Rajuk) in the capital city,” he told a seminar.International Business Fon= of Bangladesh (IBFB) arranged the seminar ti¬tled Well-planned urbanisation and devel¬opment: Non-governmental venture under public private par nership. at a city hotel Mosharraf said Rajuk, since its formation, has hulk a good number of well-planned res¬idential areas, including ones m Dhanmon¬cli, Banani, Gulshan, Ilmidhara, Nilamja and Purbarbal, with all civic amenities.But the plan for creating new residential areas through allocating plots has been changed considering the fast grow¬ing population in the city,’ the minister said.He said, some 62,000 flats in Purbachal new town project while 18,000 in liffin third phase proj¬ect and 30,000 in Jffilmil residential project are being constructed to resolve the housing prob¬lem of the city dwellers. Beside, the minister said the abandoned gov¬ernmeM houses will be made quarters for govern¬ment officials by con¬A:meting multi-storey resi¬dential buildings on those He also said multi-storey buildings will also be built in the existing quarters for government employees and officials to overcome their housing.
