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OPINION

Housing and Settlement
To build a house and to own one Is the life-time dream of a man or a woman. Housing and settlement of the people is the primary responsibility of the government. In our country, however, we always celebrate world habitation day with great enthusiasm but in the practical field our performances have been very painful. There arc hundreds of thousands of people who are shelterless in our country.
From time to time, our'gov-ernment acquires huge plots of public land, establishes housing estates under the supervision of the District Deputy Commissioner or Executive Engineer (Building) or under the control of some development authority and al-lols/leascs out plots of land to the members of the public with a view to encouraging them to construct their houses in a planned way and thus help solve the acute housing problem In the country.
Unfortunately, after the al-lotmcnt/leasc out of the land the lessee faces tremendous problems one after another. On the one hand arrangement of several lakhs of Taka for the construction of the house, the inordinate delay on the part of relevant different government authorities to provide basic civic facilities and amenities at the housing site like construction of public road, electricity, gns. water, sewerage and telephone lines and passing of building plan etc and on the other hand the term and condition of the lease agreement thal the construction work of the house would have to be completed within a specified period of 2 3 years felling which the allotmenl/leaae agreement of the land would lx- cancelled, make the situation worse These give growth ^to large scale irregularities and
corruption and the sufferings and the agonies of the lessee know no bound
We strongly feel that with a view to streamlining, simplifying, encouraging and helping the people construct their houses in a government/public sector land — timely, smoothly and peacefully, our democratic government may kindly consider Ihe following suggestions :
1) The lessor (government or public sector organization) in collaboration and coordination with relevant government authorities may ensure facilities and civic amenities like construction of public road, supply of electricity, gas. water and provision of sewerage and telephone connection at the housing site within one year of the allotmcnt/lease out/ registration of the plot of land to the lessee
2) The term and condition of the lease agreement that the construction work of the house should be completed within 2-3 years may be extended to H (eight) years
3) A Housing Committee consisted of lessor s representatives and the equal number of lessees may be formed to look after and to solve the different problems and difficulties of the construction work of the houses In the housing estate.
4) The Housing Committee may help the lessees to obtain loan from any nationalised bank when the amount of loan should not exceed Taka 8 (eight) lakh per lessee.
5) A uniform rule and regulation may be framed for allot ment/leasc out/ hand over transfer/ registration and cancellation of the plot of land which would be applicable to all members of the public equally.
OH Kabir Dhaka 1203