Govt to bring all khas lands under housing schemes

State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan called upon all local and foreign firms to invest in the country's housing sector under public-private partnership (PPP), the newly conceived development paradigm, to rid the capital city of unplanned urbanisation.
He also unveiled a government plan for bringing all khas lands in Dhaka under housing schemes to meet people's basic demand for a house.
“We'll build a well-planed housing industry in the country bringing all khash land on government holdings under proper utilisation for the sake of planned urbanisation,” the state minister said at the launching ceremony of Super Shield Bangladesh Limited at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel yesterday.
Super Shield Bangladesh Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Super Shield International Limited based in the UK. The company is a manufacturer, supplier and installer of PVCu (Polyvinyl Chloride Un-plasticised) double/triple-glassed doors, windows, conservatories, shop fronts and home-improvement products.
Mannan urged all local and foreign investors to invest in the property-development ventures under government ownership as per the PPP concept to meet the growing demands for housing.
He said the government would build four satellite cities outside Dhaka city where one lakh flats would be built on government Khas land to reduce extra pressures on the overpopulated capital.
Super Shield Bangladesh is going to create environment-friendly PVCu windows and doors, which are sound- and heat-protected, for the first time in the country.
The company, funded by non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs), would make the products using German and British technologies.
British High Commissioner Stephen Evans, Super Shield Chairman Koyes Ahmed, Managing Director Moinul Islam and Production Director Barry D Schmid, among others, addressed the function.
Evans said the NRBs are playing an important role in the economy of Bangladesh and Super Shield is an example.
“Bangladesh will be benefited in the long term from such an environment-friendly technology,” the British envoy said.