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AZIMPUR GRAVEYARD

Expansion starts soon

CITY CORRESPONDENT
The planned expansion of Azimpur graveyard is likely to start soon as the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has procured 2.13 acres of land adjacent to the burial place from the directorate of food in exchange of 1.2 acres of DCC land at Sayedabad.
The land adjacent to the Azimpur graveyard was handed over six months after the December 31, 2004 deadline. The Prime Minister's
Office (PMO) had taken the initiative to expand the graveyard, the most crowded burial place in the city, last year.
The DCC is hopeful of completing the development work within a short time although it took some 15 months to complete the land exchange process.
"The procured land needs earth filling which we shall start within a month. The extended portion should be useable by the end of this year," said Abu Taleb, chief estate officer of
DCC.
DCC sources informed that no permanent graves would be allotted in the extended portion.
"We understand the emotion relatives of a deceased go through but they must understand that due to the scarcity of space in the city, we can not allow permanent graves," said a DCC official.
Dhaka is now facing an acute shortage of burial grounds and the DCC has already stopped preservation of graves at Azimpur and Banani graveyards and is not entertaining
advanced bookings.
According to the DCC's estimate, about 100 - 120 burials take place in the city everyday and fifty percent of those are at Azimpur. The Azimpur graveyard previously had 17.5 acres of land full of permanent graves.
Following the land procurement, the second largest among the five DCC graveyards in the city now has an area of 19.63 acres.
"This will help us a lot in handling the existing crisis until we establish the planned four new graveyards," said the chief estate officer.
Among the five municipal graveyards, only the Jurain graveyard near Postogola still has space to accommodate more burials as it has been slightly expanded.
The Graveyard for Martyred Intellectuals at Mirpur with 65 acres of land is the largest among the DCC-managed burial places followed by Azimpur (19.63 acres), Jurain (10.1 acres), Banani (4.5 acres) and Uttara (0.5 acres).