The Public Works Department (PWD) has prepared a master plot to approach the capital's Tejgaon Industrial Area into an industrial-cum-poster and residential place.
The Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC), Tejgaon CSD (Central Storage Depot) and illegal parking places for trucks will be removed from the 500.2 acre Tejgaon industrial place, developed in the 1950s.
In the master plot, PWD recommended event centres, corporate offices, convention centres, international hotels, and serviced apartments vis--vis privately owned industrial plots for classified ad use.
The entire place, as per set sights on, will be turned into an iconic zone.
On 8 September last year, the cabinet qualified the proposal to slope Tejgaon industrial zone considering its broad roads into an industrial, poster and residential hub.
A high-level committee led by the housing and public works minister would review the master scheme to the lead seeking compliments of the prime minister, said officials.
Housing and public works minister Mosharraf Hossain engaged a committee of experts led by the PWD chief engineer to prepare a draft of the master scheme.
PWD chief engineer Kabir Ahmed told Prothom Alo, We are giving resolution touches to the draft.
Talking nearly the master scheme, he said, The draft includes updating of GIS map provided by RAJUK (Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha), verifying project potentials, preparing a database of private and public establishments in the place and consequently upon.
We are frustrating to position the place into an iconic zone that is larger than the capitals Motijheel place. Our main aspire is to use every one inch of the zone to position it into a matter hub that will have residential facilities, too, he optional accessory.
According to PWD sources, there are some 430 plots and sub-plots in the existing Tejgaon Industrial Area.
PWD recommended changing the food departments CSD, the BFDC and the truck stand to a convenient location and using a share of the freed place for multi purposes and selling the remaining plots as a outcome that the funds could be used for the rehabilitation of the admin establishments.
PWD engineer SAM Fazlul Kabir, along with convener of a sub-committee for the draft, said, Land office, Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, BG Press and new supervision establishments cannot be shifted.
But, the buildings will be beautified and high-rises will replace the existing residential buildings, he add-on.
As the plots of the place are larger than subsidiary parts of Dhaka the master endeavor recommended allowing buoyant industries in the Tejgaon hub, SAM Fazlul Kabir plus said.
Every try must have its own water, solar panel, rainwater storage, and sanitation flora and fauna, he auxiliary.
Welcoming the master set sights on, chairman of the Centre for Urban Studies Prof Nazrul Islam told Prothom Alo, Most of the large industries of Tejgaon are yet one-storey buildings and it cannot be trendy.
The master endeavor should incorporate things therefore that people can be benefitted both socially and commercially, he appendage.
Some plots can be allotted to private universities struggling to avow their own campuses in Dhaka. A learned circles campus requires minimum one acre of area and the planned Tejgaon can accommodate some of them, Prof Nazrul furthermore additional.
Golam Mostafa, managing director of Kallol Group of Company Limited, said, The transformation of Tejgaon Industrial Area is indispensable. Dhaka does not have any specialised advertisement area except Motijheel. Tejgaon can meet the vigorous demand for advertisement space in the capital.
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