Housing and public works adviser Adilur Rahman Khan on Saturday said that safe and affordable housing facilities must be ensured for low-income people in the city.
鈥業n the past regime, people had been following Dhaka-centric policies. Dhaka and its surrounding areas are not well-connected, as a result people come to Dhaka for work and are unable to move back after work,鈥� he said while speaking at a design-research presentation and discussion titled Affordable and Inclusive Housing in Dhaka.聽
Architecture department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology held the discussion.
Adilur Rahman said that the presentation made by the architecture department would play an important role in ensuring safe and affordable housing facilities for low-income people in Dhaka city.
Mentioning that the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripaksha and housing authority are not allocating plots now, he said, 鈥楢fter the mass uprising of the students, the government cancelled quotas for plots and flats.鈥�
He said that the RAJUK was taking an initiative to provide apartments through lottery to ensure housing facilities for low-income people.
The adviser said that laws were being drafted to protect agricultural land in the country.
Chaired by BUET vice-chancellor Professor Abu Borhan Mohammad Badruzzaman, BUET pro-VC Professor Abdul Hasib Chowdhury also spoke at the design-research presentation and discussion.
Representatives from the 2019 batch of the department presented research designs and recommended for housing on two sites in Tongi and Shyampur areas.
The discussants emphasised coordination between urban planning, architecture and policy formulation for inclusive housing facilities.