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In 1959, the DIT sanctioned the first master plan for Dhaka following the British colonial period. Initially covering an area of 220 square miles (570 km 2), the plan, formulated by British planners Minoprio, Spencely, and MacFarlane, was later expanded to 320 square miles (830 km 2). The primary aim of the 1959 Master Plan was to offer a ...
The project area consists of about 6,213 acres (25.14 km 2) land located in between the Shitalakshya and the Balu rivers at Rupganj thana of Narayanganj district and at Kaliganj thana of Gazipur district, in the northeastern side of Dhaka. The township is linked with a fourteen-lane expressway from the Airport Road-Progati Sarani intersection ...
Dhaka (Bengali: ঢাকা), formerly known as Dacca, [1] is the capital of Bangladesh. [2] It is the ninth-largest and the sixth-most densely populated city in the world, with a population of 8.9 million residents within the city limits, and a population of over 21 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Area. [3]
Because of this, the residential areas of Dhaka city are overpopulated and dirty. [ 2 ] Planned extension of the city limits is being undertaken under the Uttara Model Town Project with the objectives of accommodating the growing population and maintaining a level of service to the people.
In 2011, portions of the housing project was declared illegal as it they were considerable flood flow zones. In 2014, a cabinet committee changed the Dhaka detailed plan to make the project legal. [7] The project was built on area made by filling low-lying marshland and flood flow zones. [8] The project has sold over 10,000 residential plots as ...
The real estate industry in Bangladesh operates under various laws and regulations, including: Town Improvement Act, 1953: This act established Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) and gives it the authority to plan, develop, and expand Dhaka city, also granting the government powers to acquire land, construct buildings, and address issues of congestion and inadequate housing.
RAJUK built the link road with Tk 300 crore. In 2015 Detailed Area Plan passed by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council. In the new plan a road with 100-foot canal on the both side of road was added. For this road project a budget of Tk 5,287 crore was mentioned.
The project was founded in 1997, adjacent to Dhaka-Mawa Highway in Keraniganj. It has a total of 1,635 plots for housing and Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha plans to build 12 thousand apartments. [3] [4] The proposed Mass Rapid Transit will have a station for line 1 in the project. [5] The project has been included in a future ring road around ...