Rajuk to get more offices, staff soon
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is soon to be reorganised with enhanced manpower and four more regional offices outside the metropolitan city.
"We are going to have the new approved organogram by next month with double the existing manpower," Rajuk Chairman Md Nurul Huda told The Daily Star.
Having worked on the proposed organogram for the past one year, a 2,000-manpower is currently awaiting endorsement of the secretary-level committee on administrative development.
Currently, Rajuk has 1,087 members in its manpower.
Increased manpower would greatly help control development activities in the 1,528 square kilometers of Rajuk area that is not adequately monitored at current, said Huda.
Recruitment of new manpower would start as soon as the organogram is approved.
In addition to Rajuk's four zonal offices, there will be four more regional offices in Gazipur, Savar, Keraniganj and Narayanganj to help deliver public service locally, he said.
The proposed organogram includes two urban planners with 13 deputy planner and 26 assistant planners and two urban architects with five deputies and 10 assistants.
Number of authorised officers, who approve building plans, will increase to 24 from the existing five.
Each of the zonal and regional offices will have three authorised officers while the number of magistrates will rise to ten from the existing three.
LOTTERY FOR JHILMIL PROJECT
Rajuk is set to hold lottery for allotment of around 1,200 plots of Jhilmil housing project in Keraniganj this month with the help of Buet.
They have so far finished scrutinising 31,000 applications out of a total 35,000.
"We will hold the lottery anytime this month with completion of the scrutiny of rest of the applications," said Huda.
Rajuk initiated the application procedure for allotment under different categories last June and accepted submissions till October.
Lawmakers, state ministers, ministers, judges, speakers, and deputy speakers will qualify directly, said Rajuk sources.
Handover of the plots is expected in three years' time.
ILLEGAL PRIVATE HOUSING PROJECTS
Meanwhile, Ministry of Housing and Public Works issued an order to National Housing Authority to control housing schemes and building constructions in areas falling outside the jurisdiction of the four development authorities including those in Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi, said Huda.
Scores of private companies are developing housing schemes destroying agricultural land, homesteads and wetlands in rural areas, aloof of the four development authorities, with consent from the local union parishads and municipalities.
Such local government bodies lack required technical manpower to endorse such schemes, he added.
During the past two years, Rajuk conducted eviction drive at 800 buildings with deviations out of the 5,000 identified, realised Tk 20 crore in fine and pulled down a number of illegal housing project signboards.
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