Balanced urbanisation underscored
Friday, 5 December 2008
DU Correspondent
Discussants at a policy dialogue Thursday put stress on spreading facilities of education, industrialisation and employment in cities outside Dhaka to carry out balanced urbanisation and development throughout the country.
The Department of Population Sciences of Dhaka University (DU) organised the dialogue on 'urbanisation and development in Bangladesh' at a city hotel in cooperation with the UNFPA.
DU Vice-Chancellor SMA Faiz attended the function as the chief guest while UNFPA Bangladesh representative Arthur Erken as the special guest.
Geography and Environment Department teacher Nurul Islam Nazem presented the keynote paper. University Grants Commission Chairman Nazrul Islam and Nurul Islam Nazem jointly prepared the keynote paper.
DU Social Sciences Faculty Dean Harun-ur-Rashid, Sociology Department Chairman S Aminul Islam, Development Studies Department teacher Mahbub Ullah, Economics Department teacher MM Akash, BUET teacher Sharif Uddin Ahmed and officials of RAJUK, Dhaka City Corporation and LGED took part in the dialogue with Population Sciences Department Chairman Tehmina Ghafur in the chair and Project Director AKM Nurun Nabi moderating.
Nurul Islam Nazem in his keynote paper said there was no principle of urbanisation in Bangladesh. Even there is no implementation of the proposals in this connection, he said.
Referring to statistics, Nazem said 25 per cent people of the country now live in urban areas. The rate of urbanisation is 3.5 per cent every year whereas the rate is five per cent in Dhaka, he said adding that the Dhaka city would be the third largest city of the world by 2020.
They laid emphasis on setting up economic, social and cultural connection between urban and rural areas to attain overall development and prosperity for the country.
Discussants at a policy dialogue Thursday put stress on spreading facilities of education, industrialisation and employment in cities outside Dhaka to carry out balanced urbanisation and development throughout the country.
The Department of Population Sciences of Dhaka University (DU) organised the dialogue on 'urbanisation and development in Bangladesh' at a city hotel in cooperation with the UNFPA.
DU Vice-Chancellor SMA Faiz attended the function as the chief guest while UNFPA Bangladesh representative Arthur Erken as the special guest.
Geography and Environment Department teacher Nurul Islam Nazem presented the keynote paper. University Grants Commission Chairman Nazrul Islam and Nurul Islam Nazem jointly prepared the keynote paper.
DU Social Sciences Faculty Dean Harun-ur-Rashid, Sociology Department Chairman S Aminul Islam, Development Studies Department teacher Mahbub Ullah, Economics Department teacher MM Akash, BUET teacher Sharif Uddin Ahmed and officials of RAJUK, Dhaka City Corporation and LGED took part in the dialogue with Population Sciences Department Chairman Tehmina Ghafur in the chair and Project Director AKM Nurun Nabi moderating.
Nurul Islam Nazem in his keynote paper said there was no principle of urbanisation in Bangladesh. Even there is no implementation of the proposals in this connection, he said.
Referring to statistics, Nazem said 25 per cent people of the country now live in urban areas. The rate of urbanisation is 3.5 per cent every year whereas the rate is five per cent in Dhaka, he said adding that the Dhaka city would be the third largest city of the world by 2020.
They laid emphasis on setting up economic, social and cultural connection between urban and rural areas to attain overall development and prosperity for the country.