Rajuk's parking lot reclamation on

Three teams of Rajuk cleared illegally occupied car parking spaces at over a dozen buildings in Gulshan, Dhanmondi and Uttara in the capital yesterday.  

They also fined building owners and got undertakings for removal of the illegal structures occupying parking spaces in the basements and on the ground floors.     

The Gulshan team penalised two building owners Tk 7 lakh for illegally occupying parking lots on Gulshan Avenue and removed illegally built access ramps blocking footpaths and encroaching upon the road width in front of the five other buildings on the avenue.  

The buildings penalised included Bay Galleria and Suvastu Imam Square, said Md Abdul Hamid Mian, executive magistrate. The first was fined Tk 5 lakh and the latter Tk 2 lakh. 

Md Nasir Uddin, executive magistrate, who led the mobile court for Dhanmondi drive, said they penalised Comfort Diagnostic Centre and Hospital Tk 4 lakh and another adjoining building Tk 3 lakh for occupying car parking spaces for commercial purposes. 

The mobile court gave the hospital authorities a two-week notice with an undertaking to dismantle all the warehouse, shops and offices built illegally on the basement and the semi-basement, he said.  

They later demolished shops of another building. The Uttara team demolished ten shops, an office room and an ATM booth of National Credit and Commerce Bank on the ground floor of a building opposite Mascot Plaza, said Khandokar Zakir Hossain, executive magistrate.  

Rajuk launched the drives simultaneously in Gulshan, Dhanmondi and Uttara on January 18 in a bid to recover the designated car parking spaces and remove illegal access ramps built occupying footpaths and road width.