'Eco Smart City with modern housing facilities to be built in DSCC'

An "Eco Smart City" will be built at Nasirabad, one of the neglected areas of the capital city, as part of a move to bring the 18 new wards under modern housing facilities, said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today.

"We have decided to build "Eco Smart City" in Nasirabad area, situated under the newly inducted ward-75 with all the modern facilities," he told BSS at his Nagar Bhaban office today.

Mentioning that enough open space is required for building modern housings, the mayor said, "So, keeping that in mind, we are going to set up the modern housing facilities in the new wards where we have got sufficient open space," he said.

To facilitate the communication of the populace, the mayor said the existing 663.91km roads will be renovated or reconstructed apart from building new roads.

"Under the Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA), each of the wards will have a playground, a public toilet, a five-storey social gathering centre with a public health unit, a ward councillor office, a gymnasium and a library," he continued.

"Measures have already been taken to ensure a modern waste management system along with the initiatives of resolving the water-logging problems and mosquito menace," he added.

The mayor said he has a plan to build a kitchen market in each of the new wards so that people can purchase their essentials.

Four-lane roads would be constructed surrounding the existing canals, much to give an aesthetic scenario in those localities, he also said.

"We will also make some canals suitable for passenger vessel movement," he added.