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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Mobarak Ali, RK Mission Road, Gopibagh, Dhaka

About 80 percent of around 15 million city dwellers are living in rented houses, according to the Daily Star S report. Most of them are helpless victims of this spike in house rent. It has been observed that house rents increased alarmingly during the last 21 years, while take the Dhaka City Corporation did not increase income tax. Moreover, the house owners increase the rent defying the House Rent Control Act, 1991. The Act says that house owners can not arbitrarily increase rents or evict their tenants without prior notice. They have to sign an agreement with the tenants before renting out their houses and provide tenants with rent receipts. Many tenants bear with the owners' illogical actions fearing that the house owners will tell them to vacate their house. And it is very hazardous to shift a house nowadays. Ultimately, the house owners have the upper hand. However, we are expressing solidarity with the National Citizens' Society (NCS) of Dhaka and other bodies of all other towns of Bangladesh, through which people can uphold their demand for enforcing the law to halt the uncontrolled increase in house rent. We hope the authorities concerned will do the needful in this regard soon.