Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain said the 350-465 square feet flats would have two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a toilet.
“They can become owners by paying the instalments in the banks.”
“The slums, whose residents would get this scope, will be razed down and new slums would not be allowed there. Dhaka would become slum-free gradually.”
“Slum dwellers live a very substandard life. The country cannot move forward leaving them behind,” he said referring to Bangladesh’s goal to become a mid-income economy by 2021.
A public works ministry statement said nine six-storey buildings costing Tk 663 million, with a total of 432 flats, each 350 square feet, would be built on two sides of the Baunia embankment in Section 11 of Mirpur.
A further 27 buildings would be built in another part of Section 11 which would accommodate 648 flats, each 465 square feet.
Mirpur’s Section 9 would see another project estimated at Tk 667 million to provide accommodation for low and mid-income people.
The 10 buildings, each 14 storeys, would have 1,040 flats.