Govt set to cancel land allotment to Hotel Hilton
Tuesday, 25 December 2007
FE Report
The government has decided to cancel the allocation of 4.16 acres of land on Begunbari canal allotted to the Millennium Holdings Limited for constructing Hilton Hotel Complex.
Objections by the Board of Investment (BoI) and Bangladesh Railway have prompted the government to reverse its previous decision regarding allotment of land for the project, a senior official of the communication ministry told the FE.
An inter-ministerial meeting, chaired by Law Adviser Barrister Mainul Hosein, recently took the decision to cancel the allotment order issued by the previous government.
The government is now examining relevant rules and regulations so that the cancellation order is supported from legal point of view.
Sources said despite opposition from the BoI, the communication ministry of the previous government allotted the land on the Bagunbari canal at Hatirjheel preserved as water retention basin.
It allocated 4.16 acres of land to Hilton Hotel, planned for management by Millennium Holdings Ltd, in the canal along the Tongi Diversion Road, one acre of land on the canal towards the east of Sonargaon Hotel to the FBCCI at a token price of Tk 1 lakh and 0.66 decimals of land to the BTMA.
The former BoI executive chairman protested the allotment and sent a complaint to the former principal secretary in October last year seeking the latter's intervention in cancelling the allocation for the Hilton Hotel complex.
The allotments were made violating the city's master plan and the Railway Land Management Rules of 2006, a senior railway official said.
The lease was in violation of the Wetland Protection Act 2000, the official added.
The government has decided to cancel the allocation of 4.16 acres of land on Begunbari canal allotted to the Millennium Holdings Limited for constructing Hilton Hotel Complex.
Objections by the Board of Investment (BoI) and Bangladesh Railway have prompted the government to reverse its previous decision regarding allotment of land for the project, a senior official of the communication ministry told the FE.
An inter-ministerial meeting, chaired by Law Adviser Barrister Mainul Hosein, recently took the decision to cancel the allotment order issued by the previous government.
The government is now examining relevant rules and regulations so that the cancellation order is supported from legal point of view.
Sources said despite opposition from the BoI, the communication ministry of the previous government allotted the land on the Bagunbari canal at Hatirjheel preserved as water retention basin.
It allocated 4.16 acres of land to Hilton Hotel, planned for management by Millennium Holdings Ltd, in the canal along the Tongi Diversion Road, one acre of land on the canal towards the east of Sonargaon Hotel to the FBCCI at a token price of Tk 1 lakh and 0.66 decimals of land to the BTMA.
The former BoI executive chairman protested the allotment and sent a complaint to the former principal secretary in October last year seeking the latter's intervention in cancelling the allocation for the Hilton Hotel complex.
The allotments were made violating the city's master plan and the Railway Land Management Rules of 2006, a senior railway official said.
The lease was in violation of the Wetland Protection Act 2000, the official added.