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Allotment of plots in Mohammadpur

14 August 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By M Amin Debi Das Ghat Lane, Dhaka-1211
14 August 2005, 18:00 PM
It has been more than eight years and a half since we responded to a call by the Directorate of Housing and Settlement for application for plot allotment in Mohammadpur F block from middle class and lower middle class people. I personally deposited an amount of Tk 30,000/ (Tk Thirty thousand only) on 13 Jan 2005 with the hope that I might be fortunate enough in the lottery for the plot in the aforesaid area. But unfortunately the authorities concerned have nearly forgotten their commitment and obligation.

We have seen the haste and enthusiasm with which successive governments took measures to entertain the affluent people and high-ups with allotments in posh areas like Gulshan, Baridhara and Uttara. It seems nobody speaks for us, not even the newspapers. Had we kept the money we deposited for the plots in fixed deposits, it would have already been doubled by!

The Directorate of Housing must have kept the deposits by thousands of applicants in banks. The question is: where will the interests out of this

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huge amount of money go? Are we not entitled to compensation at the same rate we would have got from fixed deposits? When The Directorate of Housing & Settlement called for application with certain amount of deposits, it also at the same time indirectly or directly became legally obliged to go for the allotment procedures. The Directorate of Housing & Settlement did not even bother to come up with any explanation about its inability to honor its legal obligations. I demand that they apologise to the applicants in public and come up with a clear explanation about the intolerable delay they are making and announce a time-table for lottery, allotment, and hand-over of the plots.