DHAKA, Sept 5, 2018 (BSS) – Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer
Mosharraf Hossain today said the government is preparing a master plan for
ensuring accommodation for 20,000 government officials in the city’s Azimpur
and Matijheel areas.
“Apart from addressing accommodation problems, we are taking initiatives to
make other civic amenities available for public officials in these areas,” he
told a function arranged for newly recruited officials (public works) in the
ministry’s conference room here, an official release said.
Public Works Department chief engineer Md Rafiqul Islam and National
Housing Authority chairman Reshedul Islam, among others, spoke at the
function with Housing and Public Works secretary Md Shahid Ullah Khandakar in
the chair.
At present, Mosharraf said, about eight percent of the government
officials are getting accommodation facility, but the government has a plan
to bring 40 percent of them under this facility.
“The Public Works Department has now become a modern agency after it
took various initiatives for enhancing skill of its officials. The department
has a capacity to build high-rise residential buildings for government
officials,” he said.
According to official data, about 1,000 families are now living in
Azimpur government quarters while 2,800 families in Motijheel government
quarters.