CDA held meeting with owners of illegal structures
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) yesterday held the first of a series of meetings with the owners of illegal or unplanned structures, people who have been encroaching roads or footpaths deviating its plan since long. On the first day, people residing in the areas stretching from Bohaddarhat under Chandgaon Police Station to Tiger Pass in Doublemooring PS attended the meeting. CDA Authorisation Officer Ashraful Islam said the meeting was initiated to clear all or any fear and panicky among the people regarding the move and to give proper guideline to help them streamline the faults, the deviations or irregularities their plans, structures or plots have for long. He said the meeting was, mainly, attended by the city dwellers who have plots and structures but didn't obtain any approval against those, deviated CDA plan or design or encroached part or whole of roads and footpaths. "The move is part of our continued efforts to bring an order in the overall housing system of the port city that have long been in a mess and to create scope for better urbanisation for the citizens, keeping in mind the growing expansion and demand in future," said Shah Md Akhtaruddin, the CDA chairman. He said notices were served time and again to all the citizens concerned who participated in the meeting. CDA sources said the second and third such meetings will be held on June 24 and June 25 and people from Dewanhat to Port Connecting Road (PCR) in Nimtala and from PCR to Katgarh in Patenga will attend those.
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