Dhaka South city mayor Taposh unveils new plan for capital

Описание: Dhaka South city mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh unveiled a plan to change the capital’s skyline on the banks of two major rivers — Buriganga and Shitalakkha — constructing high-rise buildings serving as new business hubs.
‘We’re in the process of reclaiming lands on the riverbanks which had been grabbed by either influential individuals or state organisations and we will use those lands for building the new business city,’ said the mayor.
In an exclusive interview with New Age at Nagarbhaban on Wednesday Taposh said that the South Dhaka is blessed with the two ancient rivers but he lamented the fact that influential individuals grabbed river-lands badly affecting the city's lifeline and, on top of that, when development plans are drawn up, these rivers never became a focal point.
The former lawmaker Taposh said that as part of the plan to make the rivers central to the city's lifeline, Dhaka South City Corporation initiated a project on the bank of the Buriganga to build a 75-storey Central Business District named after prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Taposh, the second elected mayor of the divided capital city, said that for the first time the DSCC has started to prepare a master plan in cooperation with architects, urban planners and others, so that people would not suffer due to unplanned development any more.
Comprising all master plans of the agencies — including Dhaka WASA and RAJUK — the DSCC was making an integrated master plan for Dhaka, he said.



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