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32 Shankhari Bazar buildings vulnerable

PINAKI ROY
At least 32 more buildings out of 142 in Shankhari Bazar is highly vulnerable and may collapse anytime.
Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (Rajuk) has already asked the owners of these buildings to reconstruct them, Rajuk sources said yesterday.
"We have sent notice to the owners of 32 buildings in Shankhari Bazar recently, pointing out they are vulnerable and need reconstruction," said Abdul Latif Helali, authorised officer-1 of Rajuk.
Rajuk officials put the number of such vulnerable buildings in the capital at 130.
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But unofficial sources said the number is much higher because Rajuk enlists an old building as vulnerable only when someone complaints about it.
"The number of vulnerable houses in the city is not less than 1,000," Helali Admitted.
According to the Panchayet of Shankhari Bazar, most of the142 buildings in the residential-cum-commercial area, developed late in the 16th century, are more than100-year-old. Some 20,000 people live in the buildings, making the area the most densely populated in Dhaka.
Due to lack of space, the owners
built more structures on the rooftops of old buildings in an unplanned way and without permission from the authorities.
But the Rajuk and Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), which are supposed to look into the matter, have not taken any action.
Sources said 'almost all the buildings' in Shankhari Bazar and about 80 percent in nearby Tanti Baazar, developed during the British period, are vulnerable.
Meanwhile, Rajuk Chairman Iqbaluddin yesterday informed the parliamentary standing committee on the land ministry at its meeting recently they gave the DCC a list of vulnerable houses about a couple of months ago.
Locals in Shankhari Bazar alleged the DCC has not taken any action so far.
They also allged a zonal inspector of Rajuk recently visited the area only to take bribe from the owners of vulnerable buildings.
The inspector could not be contacted.