Khas land to be brought under housing schemes

Plan to build 4 satellite towns outside Dhaka
State Minister for Housing and Public Works advocate Abdul Mannan Khan invited all local and foreign firms to invest in the country”s housing sector hugely under Public-Private Partnership (PPP), the newly-conceived development paradigm, to rid the capital city of unplanned urbanization that creates what is sardonically called ”concrete jungles”, reports UNB.
He also unveiled a government plan for bringing all khas lands in Dhaka under housing schemes to meet people”s basic demand for a home, as reports say many residents don”t have a roof over their head.
“We”ll build a well-planed housing industry in the country bringing all khash land on government holdings under proper utilization for the sake of planned urbanization, apart from addressing people”s housing demands,” the minister said at the launching ceremony of Super Shield Bangladesh Limited at the Sheraton Hotel.
Super Shield Bangladesh Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Super Shield International Limited based in the UK. The company is a manufacturer, supplier and installer of PVCu double/triple-glassed doors, windows, conservatories, shop fronts and home-improvement products.
Mannan urged all local and foreign investors to invest in the property-development ventures under government ownership as per the PPP concept to meet the growing demands for housing.
He said the government would build four satellite cities outside Dhaka city where one lakh flats would be built on government Khas land to reduce extra pressures on the overpopulated capital.
The Super Shield Bangladesh Ltd company is going to create environment-friendly PVCu windows and doors, which are sound-and heat-protected, for the first time in the country.
The company, funded by Non-Resident Bangladeshis (NRB), would make the products using German and British technologies.
British High Commissioner Stephen Evans and Super Shield chairman Koyes Ahmed, managing director Moinul Islam and production director Barry D Schmid, among others, addressed the function.
Stephen Evans noted that the NRBs have been playing important role in the economy of Bangladesh and Super Shield is an example.
“Bangladesh would be benefited in the long term from such environment-friendly technology,” the British diplomat told the inaugural function.

Courtesy of The News Today