Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has recently handed over the park to Dhaka Bank for 'beautification and development'. Thereafter, corrugated iron barriers were erected around the park, and according to some vendors around the park, about thirty old trees were felled there under the cover of night.

Chief executive officer of DCC Saifuddin Ahmed and the then chief conservancy officer Sohel Faruquee approved the original design on September 13, 2006. The approved design had no provision for trees.

Dhaka Bank Limited and Biman (Bangladesh Airlines) have begun constructing a concrete structure for an electric generator and a sun shed for drivers at one corner of the park as part of the 'development'. The two organisations plan to put up advertisement signs at the site, and are expected to maintain it.

However, it has since emerged that DCC had no legal authority to hand over the park, since it had not taken possession of the land from the Public Works Department (PWD).

After DCC took possession of the site, the PWD in February asked DCC to explain the latter's ownership position on the land and demanded to know how they started the beautification programme.

The Save Environment Movement has protested that chopping down the trees and building any kind of structure there will damage the environment of the park and its surrounding area.

In the interests of all concerned, it has requested that the government make the details of the park development project available to the public.