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During mass development in an urban area, the monetary cost is always disclosed. But what about the environmental cost, which is more valuable than money? Sylhet, a relatively small city of 26.50 square kilometres, gives a glimpse into the reality. Once referred to as a green city, Sylhet is riding on a development spree in the last decade. Thanks to the city corporation's
JS body recommends building satellite city adjacent to Dhaka BSS, Dhaka BSS, Dhaka
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry today recommended planning a satellite city adjacent to the capital.
The recommendation was placed at the 15th meeting of the committee held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in Dhaka with its chairman Engineer Mosharraf Hossen.
The committee also recommended re-formulating the master plan undertaken by the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA).
The committee discussed overall progress and future planning of the ongoing projects run by the Public Works Department, National Housing Authority, Chittagong Development Authority, Cox s Bazar Development Authority, Rajshahi Development Authority, Khulna Development Authority, Urban Development Directorate, Department of Architecture and Housing and Building Research Institute.
Developing small and medium-sized towns is the answer
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I visited more than a dozen small and medium sized towns in Bangladesh during the last two months to get a good understanding about our urbanisation trends. Incomparable with Dhaka and Chattogram cities, these towns have total populations varying between an estimated 30,000 and 500,000. The medium-sized urban centres, which include the district towns and some upazila centres, have reasonably good infrastructure and services, although the situation is not equally good in all the small urban centres. In the municipal and city corporations, which are urban local governments, through financing by both the government and bilateral and multilateral funding agencies like World Bank and Asian Development Bank, the conditions of roads, drains, footpaths and street lights, and the quality of piped water supplies, have improved significantly in the past two decades. The private sector also invested in state-of-the-art comme