Rajuk now says DAP for future projects
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has stressed the need for following the detailed area plan in the case of future projects without saying anything about restoring the original shapes to areas which have already been changed by developers.
The detailed area plan, the final component of Dhaka city's master plan gazetted in June 2010, has recommended reclamation of some of the areas the present land use of which are different from what has been laid out in the detailed area plan.Rajuk will need to reclaim more than 2,500 acres of flood flow and agricultural zones now occupied by real estate companies and relocate 2,724 industries for DAP implementation.
The implementation of the detailed area plan will also require construction of roads, lanes and by-lanes besides widening of the existing roads in keeping with Strategic Transport Plan recommendations as incorporated into the detailed area plan.
Rajuk on Monday held a meeting with the representatives of 14 government and non-government utility agencies to work out plan for the implementation of the detailed area plane in a coordinated manner.
The agencies which sent representatives to the meeting included the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, Dhaka Transport Coordination Board, environment department, Dhaka Power Distribution Company, Dhaka Electric Supply Company, Titas, Dhaka Metropolitan Police and the Dhaka City Corporation.
The Rajuk chair, Nurul Huda, at the meeting asked the representatives to go by the detailed area plan in giving certificates to clients.Rajuk also asked the representatives to check Rajuk's land use approval certificate before giving the clients their approval.'We have urged the government, non-government and autonomous utility agencies to go by the detailed area plan,' Nurul Huda told New Age.'We have given copies of Dhaka to the representations so that they can from now on take action in accordance with the master plan,' Huda said.
Soon after the DAP had been gazetted, Rajuk announced to prepare an action plan to implement the detailed area plan. But the city development authorities till now has not prepared the action plan as Rajuk is waiting for the recommendations of an inter-ministerial committee set up for DAP implementation.
Housing and public works ministry officials said that the inter-ministerial committee composed of ministers and secretaries of the seven ministries concerned, could make no progress in this regard. Asked about the action plan, the Rajuk chief said, 'We have failed to work out the action plan as we have not received the recommendations of the inter-ministerial committee.'
'The inter-ministerial committee is now reviewing applications and it will later make its recommendations,' the Rajuk chair said.
Sources said the committee had received 50–60 applications from some big and influential real estate companies and land developers where they sought that their projects could not be hampered in the process of the implementation of the detailed area plan.
Asked whether land developers or real estate companies who have already developed land in the flood flow, sub-flood flow and agricultural zone for different purposes will go scot-free as Rajuk is concerned about only the future projects, the Rajuk chair said, 'I have nothing to do in this regard but to wait for the recommendations of the inter-ministerial committee.'
'We will work out the action plan in keeping with the detailed area plan as soon as we receive the clearance from the inter-ministerial committee,' he said.
Out of DAP's total area of jurisdiction of 590 square miles, 33.35 per cent of the areas have been kept for urban and rural residential and mixed purposes which are expected to house 18.53 million people by 2015.Besides, 32.18 per cent of the areas have been preserved as flood flow zones, water retention and water bodies.
Major private real estate housing projects that stand to be cancelled with the implementation of the detailed area plan include Madhumati Model Town and Eastern Mayakanan at Bilamalia, Advanced Angel City at Dakkhin Ramchandrapur, Ashulia Model Town at Uttara Duttapara and Bashundhara River View Project at Keraniganj.
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