Background:
The Rajshahi Development Authority (RDA) under the Ministry of Housing and Public Works of Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has contracted a joint venture consisting of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (as the lead firm), Data Experts (Pvt.) Limited and Troyee Associates for revision of current Functional Master Plan and Detailed Area Plan of RMDP for an area of 364.19 sq.km (including twelve unions, two Pourashavas and one City Corporation)for the plan years, i.e. is 2024 and also to update the present information as well as to make the plan Disaster Risk Sensitive through integration of disaster risk information. The contract with RDA is between 06 June 2018 - 31
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has taken up a Tk 850-crore project for constructing flyovers at five more locations in the city, but has skipped the city's most traffic-congested area, Shaheb Bazar. The area needs a longer flyover than the ones planned, and as a result will involve huge costs, said the corporation's superintending engineer Noor Islam. RCC is planning a
JS body recommends building satellite city adjacent to Dhaka BSS, Dhaka BSS, Dhaka
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry today recommended planning a satellite city adjacent to the capital.
The recommendation was placed at the 15th meeting of the committee held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in Dhaka with its chairman Engineer Mosharraf Hossen.
The committee also recommended re-formulating the master plan undertaken by the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA).
The committee discussed overall progress and future planning of the ongoing projects run by the Public Works Department, National Housing Authority, Chittagong Development Authority, Cox s Bazar Development Authority, Rajshahi Development Authority, Khulna Development Authority, Urban Development Directorate, Department of Architecture and Housing and Building Research Institute.