Opposition to 6 Housing Projects
Greens seek meeting with JS body
Ten organisations yesterday applied to the chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Housing and Public Works seeking permission to meet the committee to place their opinion about recent approval of six housing projects.
The Ministry of Housing and Public Works has recently approved the private housing projects violating laws, said a press release of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela).
The parliamentary committee on the ministry, however, recently formed a five member sub-committee to examine the approval of the projects, it said.
There are allegations of filling wetlands against almost all the recently approved six projects, and even Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) filed cases in different times against the projects, the press release said.
Declaring the projects illegal, the High Court also asked the Rajuk to take legal actions against the projects. But it did not take any action yet, it said.
The ten organisations are the Bela, Ain O Salish Kendra, Association for Land Reform and Development, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon, Centre for Urban Studies, Poribesh Bachao Andolan, Institute of Architects Bangladesh, Nijera Kori and Transparency International Bangladesh.
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