The Dhaka South City Corporation officials Wednesday afternoon visited the site where Juba League men have been constructing a market on the footpath at Gulistan in the capital and only asked the builders to pause the construction. Some Juba League leaders, in connivance with businessmen at Bangabazar, are constructing the ‘market’ and selling ‘possessions’ for Tk 10 lakh each.
The syndicate, however, claimed that they had ‘approval’ from the Dhaka South City Corporation for the market and they would provide businessmen with required documents in support of their legal allocation.
Bricklayers on Monday were laying the foundation of the narrow building on the footpath bordering the wall of the T&T office, some 200 metres off the DSCC office.
Following media report, the DSCC magistrate along with police and other officials went to the ‘illegal’ construction site at about 1:00pm.
They talked to the Juba League leaders and other businessmen, who produced document in support of the allocation of the footpath.
The authorities later in consultation with their high-ups returned from the site, only asking them to stop the construction until the matter was resolved.
The Juba League men are constructing 28 shops, each measuring 32 square feet, in the market and scheduled to hand over the possessions before Ramadan.
‘We have asked them (the Juba League leaders) to come up with allotment papers as they had claimed,’ Dhaka South City Corporation’s chief estate officer Mohammad Jamal Hussain told New Age Wednesday evening.
-With New Age input
