CHATTOGRAM, May 2: The government is going to construct nearly three thousand flats for the floating people in Chattogram.
The Ministry of Housing and Public Works will construct the flats on 13 acres of land in Bakolia Char area in the city.
Twelve 14-storey towers will be constructed and each flat will measure 800 square feet with solar-powered electricity generation and all other required utility services, said Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain.
After visiting the project site on Monday evening, the minister told the media at Bakolia that the flats will be built primarily for the poor people having no housing facilities.
The flats will be rented to them at Tk 1,000 per unit per month only.
He said that the flats will be constructed as part of a government-sponsored housing project titled Housing for All.
Under the same project, the government has already started construction of several thousand flats in Dhaka.
"Work is starting very soon in Chattogram as well and the site has been finalised on the bank of the Karnaphuli River at Bakolia in the city. A vast tract of land has surfaced along the river and primarily we have selected 13 acres of land there for the multi-storey buildings," he said.
As many as 2, 688 flats of 800 sft each in 12 towers will be available. Senior officials of the Housing department in Chattogram, Chairman of Chittagong Development Authority Abdus Salam and other concerned officials visited the site with the minister.
The flats will have rainwater harvesting facilities.
The estate will have school for their children, playground and prayer houses for both the Muslims and Hindus, so that the poor people can live with dignity there.
Thousands of floating people live in the port city in thatched houses measuring 150 to 200 square feet hired for Tk 3,000 per month or more.
In most cases they don't get electricity, gas and water connections and so are forced to have those utilities connected to houses illegally through unfair means.
According to the estimates of the real estate association office, a flat of 1300 square feet is generally rented at around Tk 15,000 to 16,000.
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