The cabinet committee on detailed area plan (DAP) review has formed two committees to physically visit and dispose the petitions which were submitted to the Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkhya (RAJUK) to revise the plan for in and around the capital announced in 2010. The committees include cabinet sub-committee on detailed area plan (DAP) review to recommend on disposing the applications, analysing the reports of technical committee and technical committee to physically visit those places under DAP which will be required for revision as per their owners’ petitions.
The two committees will complete their work within July and submit their reports to the cabinet committee on DAP review. The committee will take the final decision about the pending applications.
The decision was made on Sunday at a meeting of the cabinet committee on detailed area plan (DAP), which was the second meeting of the committee after its formation in 2010. Head of the committee Local Government Minister Syed Ashraful Islam chaired the meeting.
Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira will lead the cabinet sub-committee, while Environment and Forest Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan will be the members.
Other members of the sub-committee are- public works secretary, local government secretary, environment secretary and land secretary, chairman of the RAJUK, directors general (DG) of department of environment and Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB).
Meanwhile, RAJUK’s member of planning unit will be the head of the technical committee.
After the meeting, Housing and Public Works secretary Khondakar Showkat Hossain told The Independent, the meeting has decided to visit those places physically to ensure the lands’ basic nature and examine all the papers of the land owners. The technical committee will submit their report visiting those places physically and examine its papers.
Showkat Hossain said, “It’s not that we are reviewing the full DAP. We will amend the DAP considering the pending petitions. We will just examine and analyse the petitions which were submitted by the land owners. The land owners may submit their petitions until these applications are being disposed.”
-With The Independent input
