Building in a well planned way

Agricultural land in our country is relatively scarce when compared to our gigantic population. Data provided by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics show that we are losing whatever little agricultural land we have at the rate of one percent per year.

People are increasingly building more and more houses and other structure using agricultural land.

If this continues, buildings and other structures will occupy agricultural land more and more and we may face problems in the future in feeding our massive population. Dhaka and other cities are becoming more and more ecologically imbalanced as their population sizes increase on a daily basis.  It is high time for the authorities to come up with better plans and make sure that ecological balance, population size, etc are taken into consideration when granting permission for building new structures.

Sumon Kumar Paul, By E-mail