Rajuk's plots
I am an expatriate who applied for the Rajuk lottery for plots. Little did I know what I was getting myself into. Of course, the deadline for submitting the applications was December 2008, and ended up to be postponed quite a bit, finally settling in end of April 2009. As an applicant, and as a person who has made quite a significant payment of US $3500, I do believe that it is my right to know when the lottery will be held. Is it going to be any time soon? Or have the bigwigs still not decided on which of them (and of course, their friends and families) will actually get the plots, and how to pretend that the lottery is actually going to be fair? I guess that is why they needed the deadline to be extended: somebody's shala (brother-in-law) hadn't turned in the application yet. The lottery just can't take place, now, can it?
Does Rajuk not understand that if it accepts payment from people, then the people will have rights with regards to their money? I find it hard to understand how there can be absolutely NO sense of accountability and integrity within this institution.
I would urge The Daily Star to please provide an update for the thousands of innocent people who are totally in the dark about the lottery and whose money is stuck with Rajuk for the time being. Recently, Rajuk put up some applicant and expired FDD lists on its website for the Purbachal lottery, and there's no explanation of what these lists mean. What is someone supposed to do if their FDD has expired? Also, in the applicant list, there's a section for "Credited Applicants" and another one for "Applicants yet to be credited". If a name is in the "Credited Applicants" list, does that mean that Rajuk has already cashed their money orders/bank drafts? It is very frustrating for us, who live outside of the country, to figure out what is happening and when to expect results.
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