Rajuk and developers
If we look at the buildings of Dhaka city, it becomes evident that these were not constructed according to the building code. I have hardly seen 8 feet (4 feet from either side) distance between two houses which is a rule set by RAJUK. Hundreds of thousands of buildings have been constructed illegally but RAJUK did not take any action against the people who made them and claim that they do not have sufficient manpower. To me this is a lame excuse because it takes 2 to 5 years to construct a multi-storied building. If RAJUK has 20 engineers they should have sufficient time to inspect them (at least the distance between two buildings). Experts repeatedly warned that if there is insufficient space between the buildings, fire may spread from one house to another. See what happened at "Nimtoli" of Dhaka city. A building collapsed at "Begunbari" as it was not constructed following the code.
On the other hand, developers are also trying their best not to keep any tree in any house and practically there is no window in the houses of Dhaka city. If the distance between houses is so narrow the purpose of keeping windows is not served.
If a medium level earthquake occurs in Dhaka city I guess many buildings would collapse leading to deaths of hundreds of thousands of people because RAJUK allowed buildings which did not and are not following the code necessary to resist earthquake. I do not believe the authorities concerned (especially the high officials of RAJUK ) will think about the matter seriously and that is why I would urge the government to close this organisation. I am a taxpayer and RAJUK people get salaries from my tax and nobody is there to take action against them i.e. evidently they are above law.
Hence, I do not want to pay tax for some extremely irresponsible people.
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