Chittagong Development Authority chairman Abdus Salam on Monday called on the property developers to go by the building construction rules properly in the Chittagong city.
Abdus Salam made the call at a meeting of the Chittagong city development committee at the CDA office.
He said that the real estate companies must follow the Bangladesh National Building Code and Chittagong Metropolitan City Building Construction Rules 1995 particularly because the city fell in a highly earthquake prone region.
'The CDA in its resolve to ensure the quality of building construction will identify the violators of the construction rules and take action against them,' he said.
The apartment buyers suffer the worst for the activities of the dishonest property developers, he observed, adding that the CDA would train its engineers who had joined the office just finishing their graduation.
The CDA will soon begin enlisting the real estate establishments and soil testing companies that are mushrooming in the city, he said.
At the meeting Mohammad Jahangir, chair of the Chittagong city development committee, presented the investigation report on 22 construction projects for which their companies were accused of violating the related rules.
Mohammad Jahangir also informed that there were around one lakh and eighty-two thousand buildings in the port city of which around 90 per cent were built defying the BNBC.
'According to the extent of violation of the rules, we have classified these buildings under major, medium and minor categories,' he said, adding that the offender companies would be fined.
He also said that the Chittagong city development committee would continue its investigation.
With the CDA chairman in the chair the meeting was also addressed, among others, by Ali Ashraf and Mohammad Harun, former presidents of Institute of Engineers, Chittagong, Kazi Aynul Haque, managing director of Equity Property Management, and Shahinul Islam Khan, CDA deputy chief city planner.
Source : New Age
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