Targets Rajuk for housing of middle income group
The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is going to build more than 50,000 apartments in three different housing projects for middle and lower-middle income groups in the capital in next three to five years.
As many as 22,500 apartments will be ready for handover in Uttara model town (third phase) within three years, Rajuk Chairman Md Nurul Huda told reporters at his office yesterday.
The project is now at the Planning Commission for approval.
Two similar housing schemes of building 20,000 apartments in Purbachal project and 10,000 in Jheelmil project are being examined at the housing and public works ministry, he added.
In line with the Strategic Transport Plan (STP), Rajuk will also build a five-kilometre flyover stretching from Scout Bhaban to Babu Bazar and Victoria Park via Golap Shah Mazar to ease traffic congestion and reap the benefits of the proposed Padma Bridge, he said.
Rajuk has also undertaken two road projects including one stretching from the Sonargaon Hotel to Mohakhali and an eight-kilometre link road from Madani Avenue (Baridhara) to the Balu river on the eastern fringe of Dhaka city.
The projects are awaiting approval of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec).
The Kuril interchange flyover, now under construction, is expected to be completed in next two years, said Huda.
Meanwhile, Rajuk authorities have placed a proposal to the ministry to double its existing manpower and create four more zone offices in addition to existing four to reduce sufferings of the service seekers.
The proposal to reorganise Rajuk with a 2,742-strong workforce increasing the number from existing 1,087 is presently lying with the public works ministry and a summary of it will soon be placed before the prime minister.
The increased manpower will include planners, architects and graduate and diploma engineers.
Four new zone offices will be set up in Savar, Gazipur, Narayanganj and Keraniganj with a magistrate, authorised officer and law officer in each of them.
Rajuk will fund the housing scheme while the ministry will fund the road and flyover projects with government money.
