Rajuk public hearing on DAP from Oct 1
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is going to arrange a public hearing on detailed area plan (DAP) before finalising it from October 1, which will continue until November 30.
Anybody will be able to give his or her comments and suggestions during the hearing, said Rajuk Chairman Md Shafiqul Islam at the technical management committee meeting at Rajuk auditorium yesterday.
The DAP will be completed by December 31 and the people will be able to get the copy by March 2009, he added.
DAP Project Director Tapan Kumar Nath said suggestions and recommendations can reach through phone calls, emails or fax messages during a deadline of two months.
Four groups who were appointed to do the job presented their draft final reports to the technical committee meeting.
Rajuk gave the work order to prepare the DAP to four firms -- SHELTECH, DDC, EPC and Gani Bangla -- in August 2004 with two years' timeframe to complete the job.
Experts said drafted in 1995, the 20-year Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan (DMDP) was approved by the government in 1997 with retrospective effect, but it could not be materialised for want of the DAP.
Due to delay of preparing DAP, many locations of retention ponds and flood flow zones, which were marked in the DMDP, have already been encroached by the land developers, said urban experts.
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