Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (abbreviated as RAJUK; literally the Capital Development Authority of the

Government of Bangladesh The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh ( bn, গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার — ) is the central executive government of Bangladesh. The government was constituted by the Con ...

) is a Bangladeshi public agency responsible for coordinating

urban Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people ...

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. RAJUK is composed of various public

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s, city planners, urban administrators, engineers, and architects. It is the National Authoritative Board on building planning, estates and resources, plot allotment, and construction approvals from both public and private entities. It utilizes the Dhaka Improvement Trust (Allotment of Land) Rule of 1969 and The Town Improvement Act of 1953, both scribed since before the

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RAJUK projects

Uttara Apartment Project Uttara, which means "north" in Sanskrit and many other South Asian languages, may refer to: Places *Uttara Export Processing Zone, Bangladesh *Uttara, a suburb north of Dhaka, Bangladesh *Uttara East Thana *Uttara West Thana *Uttaradit, a city in ...

Purbachal New Town Purbachal New Town Project or formerly Purbachal Residential Model Town is the biggest planned township in Bangladesh. The project area consists of about 6,227 acres (25 square kilometer) land located in between the Shitalakhya and the Balu Riv ...

* Jhilmil Residential Project *

Urban Resilience Project Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people ...

Activities

It carries out drives against building code violations in Dhaka City. This is challenging as policing of illegal development is limited. The agency is supposed to generate revenue from city land, which many feel conflicts with its strategic and planning functions.Cashmore, M., Richardson, T. and Axelsson, A. (2014), Seeing power in international development cooperation: environmental policy integration and the World Bank. ''Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers''. 39, 1 155-168

References

Government agencies of Bangladesh 1956 establishments in East Pakistan 1987 establishments in Bangladesh Organisations based in Dhaka Government of Dhaka {{Bangladesh-gov-stub