520 win Jheelmil plots
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) allotted 520 Jheelmil plots in the capital's outskirts Keraniganj to candidates who won the lottery yesterday.
The plots will be handed over in three years.
Against the 405 three-katha and 115 five-katha plots, there were 19,358 qualified applicants, according to sources at Rajuk.
The candidates on whom fortune did not smile will get refund of their deposit money within a week, said Rajuk Chairman Md Nurul Huda.
Rajuk will allot the remaining 570 plots of the 1090-plot Jheelmil residential area through lottery and partially on the basis of negotiation later, he said.
The 520 plots were allotted in nine categories yesterday.
Among the plots, 100 have been allotted to remittance earners, 120 to businessmen and industrialists, 100 to private job holders, 20 to private teachers, 20 to other private job holders, 20 to personalities of art or literature and sports, 10 to families with the title of freedom fighter, 10 to the families of martyred freedom fighters, 10 to injured freedom fighters, 20 to freedom fighters' families, 50 to government officials and 40 to the employees of autonomous bodies.
These plots apart, Rajuk distributed 385 plots in Jheelmil a decade back, said the Rajuk chief.
The 381-acre Jheelmil residential area, located by Dhaka-Mawa highway in Keraniganj, is two kilometres off China-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge.
Applicants for the remaining plots include lawyers, agriculturists, engineers, physicians, judges, parliament members, journalists, and first class officers of government and autonomous bodies.
While judges and parliament members will get allotment directly, plots for journalist category will be finalised in consultation with the leaders of journalists' unions later, the Rajuk chief said.
Abdul Mannan Khan, state minister for housing and public works, was present along with the ministry's secretary Khondker Showkat Hossain at the lottery session held at Osmani Memorial Hall between 10:30am and 2:00pm. A team of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) provided technical assistance in holding the lottery.
The minister said there was no other better way out for allotment of 1,090 plots among a total of 35,000 qualified applicants.
Rajuk initiated the application procedure for the plot allotment last June and accepted submissions till October.
Among the Jheelmil project victims, each landowner with more than 10 kathas of land will get a plot while others will get flats.
Rajuk has so far allotted 26,000 plots in its Purbachal New Town and 6,000 in Uttara extension (third phase), said the housing and public works secretary.
As land is scarce, Rajuk is to build a total of 50,000 apartments in Uttara, Purbachal and Jheelmil to meet housing demand, he said. Rajuk has already embarked on building 20,000 flats in Uttara model town, he added.
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