Rajuk to return failed applicants' deposit after 46 days of prayer
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Fazlur Rahman
The applicants who failed to win residential plots in two housing projects of Rajuk will get back their deposits after 46 working days of applying for the money, officials said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, some unsuccessful applicants for plots in Purbachal New Town and Uttara Model Town (3rd Phase) projects alleged that the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is dilly-dallying in returning the money deposited with the application forms.
Rajuk officials said as the process is lengthy, the banks are taking time to return the money to the failed applicants.
"Initially, we thought that it would take around 15 days to complete the process," said a senior official of Rajuk.
"But it is taking more time than earlier thought. We now hope the unsuccessful applicants would be able to draw their deposited money after 46 working days, if they go through due process. The banks have been intimated accordingly," he told the FE, preferring anonymity.
As many as 157,000 people applied for around 6,300 plots under Purbachal project and around 870 plots under Uttara project in 12 categories after Rajuk invited applications November last year.
Rajuk took a deposit of Tk 75,000 for a 3-katha plot, Tk 100,000 for a 5-katha, Tk 150,000 for 7.5-katha and Tk 200,000 for 10-katha plot under the projects.
They also received $1,500 for a 3-katha plot, $2,000 for 5-katha, $2,500 for 7.5-katha and $3,500 for 10-katha plot from non-resident Bangladeshi applicants.
The official said the process to hand over the allotment papers to the plot winners would start after Eid-ul-Azha, which is due Saturday.
The Rajuk has so far allotted around 2,558 plots in three rounds of lottery in journalists, foreign exchange earners, freedom fighters, artist/sportspersons, industrialists and businessmen, private jobholders, lawyers and justices categories.
The rest of the plots in the two projects would go to applicants in the MPs, civil servants, autonomous organisation service-holders and defence forces personnel categories.
Officials said the state-owned city developer is ready to allocate plots among applicants in those categories. However, it is unlikely that the allocation would be completed before Eid, said another Rajuk official.
Ministers, state ministers and lawmakers will be given plots directly, while government servants, autonomous organisation jobholders and defence forces personnel will get plots on the basis of seniority and salary structure of the applicants.
Sixty plots have also been set aside for journalists and would be distributed on the seniority and salary scale basis, State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan said earlier this month.
The Purbachal project is situated in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district and Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur district and the Uttara project is situated on the western side of the Uttara Model Town (2nd Phase) Project.
The applicants who failed to win residential plots in two housing projects of Rajuk will get back their deposits after 46 working days of applying for the money, officials said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, some unsuccessful applicants for plots in Purbachal New Town and Uttara Model Town (3rd Phase) projects alleged that the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is dilly-dallying in returning the money deposited with the application forms.
Rajuk officials said as the process is lengthy, the banks are taking time to return the money to the failed applicants.
"Initially, we thought that it would take around 15 days to complete the process," said a senior official of Rajuk.
"But it is taking more time than earlier thought. We now hope the unsuccessful applicants would be able to draw their deposited money after 46 working days, if they go through due process. The banks have been intimated accordingly," he told the FE, preferring anonymity.
As many as 157,000 people applied for around 6,300 plots under Purbachal project and around 870 plots under Uttara project in 12 categories after Rajuk invited applications November last year.
Rajuk took a deposit of Tk 75,000 for a 3-katha plot, Tk 100,000 for a 5-katha, Tk 150,000 for 7.5-katha and Tk 200,000 for 10-katha plot under the projects.
They also received $1,500 for a 3-katha plot, $2,000 for 5-katha, $2,500 for 7.5-katha and $3,500 for 10-katha plot from non-resident Bangladeshi applicants.
The official said the process to hand over the allotment papers to the plot winners would start after Eid-ul-Azha, which is due Saturday.
The Rajuk has so far allotted around 2,558 plots in three rounds of lottery in journalists, foreign exchange earners, freedom fighters, artist/sportspersons, industrialists and businessmen, private jobholders, lawyers and justices categories.
The rest of the plots in the two projects would go to applicants in the MPs, civil servants, autonomous organisation service-holders and defence forces personnel categories.
Officials said the state-owned city developer is ready to allocate plots among applicants in those categories. However, it is unlikely that the allocation would be completed before Eid, said another Rajuk official.
Ministers, state ministers and lawmakers will be given plots directly, while government servants, autonomous organisation jobholders and defence forces personnel will get plots on the basis of seniority and salary structure of the applicants.
Sixty plots have also been set aside for journalists and would be distributed on the seniority and salary scale basis, State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan said earlier this month.
The Purbachal project is situated in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district and Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur district and the Uttara project is situated on the western side of the Uttara Model Town (2nd Phase) Project.