Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Aug-03,
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday distributed newly-constructed flats among 300 low-income families as they were living in slums, enabling them to avail of civic amenities.
She handed over the
allocation papers of the new flats in 14-storey three buildings on rental
basis.
The flat distribution
programme was held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. The prime
minister joined it from her official residence Ganobahban.
The flats have all the
facilities of a modern urban residence like lift, generator, solar power, wide
walkways, power substations, open spaces and beautification through
illumination.
The daily rent for
every 672-sqf flat, having a drawing room, one kitchen and separate bathrooms,
has been fixed at Tk 150, while the monthly rent at Tk 4,500.
The Ministry of Housing and Public Works implemented the project at Mirpur 11 in the capital from its own financing. This is the first phase of relocating slum residents to better housing.
Two more such buildings are under construction which will be completed by December and the flats will be allocated on priority basis among the families of the project area, which was a slum before implementation of the project.
The prime minister laid
the foundation stone of the project -- originally taken in 2017-- on October 16
this year.
There will be some
10,000 flats in the project which will cost Tk 148 crore. In its second phase,
the flats will be given among 1,001 more families.
Apart from housing
projects for slum residents, the prime minister inaugurated 2,474 flats in
Azimpur, Motijheel, Mirpur, Malibagh and Tejgaon areas constructed for
government employees posted in Dhaka.
In Azimpur, the number
of flats is 1,292 in 17 20-storey buildings, 288 flats in Mirpur-6, and 456 in
four 20-storey buildings in Malibah. In Motijheel, the number of flats is 380
in five 20 buildings.
Officers and employees
of the Prime Minister Office will get accommodation in two eight-storey
buildings with 58 flats in Tejgaon area.
She also inaugurated a
10-storey integrated office building in Madaripur district.
State Minister for
Housing & Public Works Sharif Ahmed and Secretary Md Shahid Ullah Khandaker
were present on the dais from the BICC side.
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