Top floor of tilted building demolished

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday demolished the top floor of a four-storey tilted building at Begunbari in the capital as part of its ongoing drive.
Two eviction teams of Rajuk also demolished around 25 makeshift structures in city's Gulshan and Begunbari areas.
An eviction team of Rajuk knocked down the top floor of a four-storey tilted building erected illegally at Begunbari. The building is close to the five-storey building that collapsed on June 3 and claimed 25 lives.
The team also pulled down three two-storeyed tin-shed houses erected along the Begunbari canal (Hatirjheel Development Project) in the area, said Shafiqul Islam, authorised officer of Rajuk, who supervised the drive.
Another team comprised of Rajuk Superintendent Engineer Anwar Hossain, Executive Engineer Nurul Islam pulled down a number of tin-shed and bamboo-made structures to recover a Rajuk plot at Gulshan in the morning. Executive Magistrate Rokon-Ud-Dowla led the team.
The Rajuk authorities, however, spared a number of residential buildings that were being used for commercial purposes like hotel, buying house and school in violation of the approved plan 3 in the immediate vicinity of Gulshan road no-4.
Rajuk Chairman Md Nurul Huda told The Daily Star, “We will undertake an eviction drive for these buildings later.”
The team also knocked down around ten fruit shops set up illegally on the Banani playground at Kemal Ataturk Avenue.
Regarding shops in the playground, Executive Engineer Nurul Islam said they (Rajuk) entrusted Banani Society with maintenance of the playground but the Society allowed the setting up of shops in the area.
Superintending Engineer Anwar Hossain said, “We will now take the playground back and maintain it on our own.”
Zillur Rahman, owner of an evicted shop, said, “The people of the Society took Tk 30, 000 against each shop for three months.”