The Squatter Resettlement Programme in the City of Dacca

A Critical Analysis

  • Syed Abu Hasnath
  • Ziauddin Ahmed
Keywords: Slum Clearing Schemes, Mirpur Slum, Demra Slum, Tongi Slum, Dacca, Dhaka

Abstract

In January 1975, the then Government of Bangladesh launched a slum clearing operation in the capital of Dacca whereby about 2,00,000 squatter dwellers of the city were forced either to return to their native village or to settle in one of the three camps: Mirpur, Demra and Tongi (Dattapara), the locus of which are within 5, 10 and 15 miles respectively from the heart of the city of Dacca. The conditions of the camps and the dwellers were appalling as summed up by a responsible newspaper – they had been slipped into hell with the Government’s good intension. The authors of this paper undertook a case study of the resettlement schemes in order to understand more clearly the various aspects of the problem and devise, if possible, a set of guiding principles which would ensure better schemes in future.

Author Biographies

Syed Abu Hasnath

Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dacca, Bangladesh.

Ziauddin Ahmed

Final Year Student of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dacca, Bangladesh.

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1977-06-01
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Vol 1 No 1 (1977): Protibesh—Journal of the Department of Architecture, BUET
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