Govt to build multistoried buildings in city

Talha Bin Habib | May 04, 2014 00:00:00

The government will construct multistoried buildings on its unused land in Dhaka to accommodate its employees, officials say.

The buildings will be built on abandoned government land in the Banani, Gulshan and Dhanmondi areas in the capital aiming to reduce pressure on housing for government service holders.

At present, accommodation for the government employees is not sufficient. Only 7 per cent of the employees enjoy such a facility. The department of public works will implement the projects on the public-private partnership (PPP) basis, a high official of the ministry of housing and public works (MoHPW) has told the FE.

Meanwhile, the government took up two projects in 2009 and 2010 to resolve the accommodation crisis facing its employees in the capital.

The projects were taken up to construct buildings at Azimpur and Motijheel government colonies for public servants, considering utmost utilisation of government properties and solution to the crisis of public servants' accommodation.

There are only 24,000 government residences in the country against around 1.3 million public servants, according to the ministry concerned.

There are around 15,000 government houses in Dhaka and Chittagong cities, of which 13,000 are in Dhaka against 200,000 public servants.

According to the ministry, there are 5,595 houses for class I cadres, non-cadres and class II officials in Dhaka. Of them, around 86 bungalows and 206 superior class houses are allocated for ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers and important persons working with the statutory bodies of the country.

Besides, at least 30,000 class-I and class-II officials are entitled to get around 5,000 D, E and F-type buildings while about 7,500 A, B and C-type houses are reserved for class-III and class-IV employees.

"We are considering the matter seriously. We hope to start construction of the buildings soon on the public-private partnership (PPP) basis," a concerned official of the department of public works told the FE.