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Rajuk won’t acquire land in DND area

By Reaz Ahmed
As thousands have sent letters to Rajuk protesting its development plan for the DND area, it now says that it will not acquire any land in the sprawling city suburb.
'We will not acquire any land in the DND project area and will not also put on sale plots on a commercial basis." Rajuk Chairman Azizul Haque told The Daily Star yesterday.
Meanwhile. A tense situation is prevailing in the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) area over the issue of Detailed Area Plan (DAP) for the area.
About one million people living Inside the DND em banknirnt are now concerned
over reports that RAJUK would acquire lands there and eventually sell plots to well-off people.
But Haque said Rajuk would never do that. "We've already received 25.000 letters In this regard from the citizens and more are.pouring in."
The DND area covering almost 19 lakh acres of land was developed as an irrigation and flood control project area back in the '60s. Over the last decades, the area has lost its vast croplands to meet the evergrowing housing needs of low-income people.
People of firing In the area have been agitating against the DAP and issued an ultimatum
to Rajuk on February 25 to cancel it within 15 days'
Replying to a question. Haque said "We'll do nothing against the will of the people living there".
Asked why Rajuk is not removing public confusion by making an announcement that it will not acquire and sell any land (here, he said they arc thinking in that line.
"If (he situation demands, we ll definitely go for public announcements. But. everyone should understand It well that if roads and other civic ameni lies are not developed there now, a decade later, people living in DND area would be alienated from the main part of the capital."
On the oiherhand. leaders of the agitating people of the area distributed leallels over the last two days saying that Rajuk would acquire lands for selling plots on a commercial basis.
Abdul Alim, a resident of the area, says "We will not accept Rajuk plan if it aims at driving away the present small landholders and developing the sites for sale of plots to the affluent people. But if some of us have to sacrifice lands and buildings there for the purpose of widening of roads, we ll not mind’
The Rajuk Chairman regretted that people in Bangladesh never foresee the problems ahead and don’t like to sacrifice lands lo make their future happier.
’1 saw in Yokohama (in Japan) last year that residents volunteered their lands for development of their city." he recalled in this connection.