DHAKA, July 15, 2019 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today opened
seven housing development projects for the cabinet members, government
officials and employees as well as the people affected by the schemes.
“We inaugurated 1671 flats under seven schemes with having modern
facilities for cabinet members, secretaries, other government officials and
employees as well as the affected people,” she said while opening the
projects on Eskaton Garden Road here.
Four of the seven projects have been completed by Public Works Department
while three others by National Housing Authority and Rajdhani Unnayan
Kartripakkha (RAJUK) under the Housing and Public Works Ministry.
The prime minister said “I hope the government officers and employees will
give more attention to discharge their duties getting residence facilities in
the project area with beautiful environment.”
She said that she had already given the instruction to increase the
accommodation facilities for the government officials and employees to 40
percent in Dhaka which was only 8 percent in 2014.
“We are set to build 6350 flats under 16 projects of the Housing and
Public Works Ministry and there have been allocation for building 1674 more
flats under 13 other schemes,” she said.
Besides, the work of constructing 398 flats in 20 abandoned house in
Gulshan, Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur areas here and 1824 flats and 64
dormitories in 51 abandoned houses in Chattogram is going on while
initiatives have already been taken to build 317 flats by acquiring 15 more
abandoned houses, she informed.
“We have already built 1512 flats for the Supreme Court judges, officers
and employees of parliament secretariat as well as other government officers
and employees and distributed those to them,” she added.
Sheikh Hasina said that her government has already taken initiative to
construct 2816 dormitories in 64 districts to increase the housing facilities
for the government officials and employees.
Mentioning that her government has been working for accommodation for all,
saying “We have already developed a total of 33,526 plots and built 8,922
flats for selling those to lower and middle income people. Of those, 6636
flats under the third phase of Uttara apartment project have already been
opened.”
The prime minister said development of 18105 more flats and building of
8039 flats are also going on, adding “We have taken initiatives to develop
18148 plots and one lakh 41 thousand and 687 flats across the country.”
The housing problem of the citizens will be reduced significantly upon
completion of the flats development works, she continued.
“We don’t want any people to live in the slum. So we are now building
flats for slum dwellers in Dhaka. Work on constructing 533 flats is going on
in Mirpur and have a plan to build 16000 more flats for them,” she said.
“We have formulated laws for a well-planned urbanisation and enacted law
for making time-befitting Housing and Building Research Institute Ordinance,”
she said.
The prime minister later visited one of the three buildings constructed for
grade one government officers on Eskaton Garden Road in the city.
Housing and Public Works Minister S.M. Rezaul Karim and its secretary Md
Shahid Ullah Khandaker spoke on the occasion.
A video documentary on the seven projects was also screened at the
function.