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100-year master plan a must for city's dev: Khoka

Staff Correspondent
Dhaka City Corporation Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka .it a view exchange meeting yesterday stressed the need for taking a 100 year master plan instead ot a 20-year plan considering the future needs of the city’.
Addressing the meeting at Nagar Bhaban on draft final report of Detailed Area Plan (DAP) of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) as die chief guest. Khoka said, "As die people of the country is Dhaka-centered, we cannot stop them coming here and this is why the government has to prepare a 100-year master plan to meet the growing demands of the city."
“If necessary foreign experts should be involved to prepare the
long-term plan and government should finance Rajuk from its national budget to prepare it," he said.
The meeting was organised by Rajuk seeking opinion of experts and public representatives about the draft plan, which was submitted recently.
The DAP, a major component of Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan, is scheduled to be completed by December 31 anil public hearing will be done from October to November
Khoka said he wants to sec DAP as the beginning of development plans, adding Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan was prepared in 1995 and most of the time of its 20-year implementation period has already gone.
He also suggested shifting the container terminal of Bangladesh Railway at Kamalapur outside Dhaka to reduce the city's traffic congestion and setting up a new railway station at the western side of the city.
He pointed out that in the draft plan they did not give any clear suggestion to solve the existing transport problem of the city.
"We should not think about old city but we have to do proper planning about the new areas so that we can do it like a developed country,” hesaid.
Architect Iqbal Habib said the public hearing should be done in the city areas so that people can express their opinions.
He also demanded publishing the draft plan on the website or in
the media immediately so that people can come up with good suggestions.
Ward commissioner Haji Altaf Hossain demanded setting up another waste treatment plant to reduce the pollution of the rivei Burlganga.
Representatives of four firms who are preparing the DAPEngincering and Planning Consultants Ltd (EPC), GBL, DDC and Sheltech presented their draft plan in the meeting.
Acting chairman of Rajuk IEM Golam Kibria, Tapan Kumar Nath, project director of DAP, Chief Executive Officer of DCC Md Alauddin, commissioners of different wards and urban experts addressed the meeting.