Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) on Tuesday informed the High Court that some 26,777 out of total 30,000 documents which were disappeared from its  server have been recovered. Imam Hasan, a lawyer who stood for Rajuk, presented the information to the High Court bench led by Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder . Hasan also said that the documents were hacked from the server by cybercriminals, but those have been retrieved. The deleted files have been recovered by the consulting firm Technohaven Company Limited, according to Rajuk. Following the update, the High Court directed the three-member inquiry committee of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to submit a report within 60 days of receiving the order and fixed  July 9 for next order. Lawyer Md. Khurshid Alam Khan stood for the ACC  while Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik represented the state. Read more: Breaching Rajuk plan: Most markets under Dhaka city corporations at fire risk The incident was first reported by Prothom Alo on December 29, 2022, with a headline stating '30,000 customers’ documents are missing from Rajuk.' On January 2, senior lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan brought the report to the attention of the court. Following this, the High Court sought  an explanation from the Rajuk Chairman and asked the ACC to investigate the matter. On Tuesday, Rajuk filed an affidavit confirming the recovery of the missing documents, while the ACC said that they are currently investigating the incident. The committee has already requested information from Rajuk. According to Rajuk's affidavit, on December 6, 2022, the documents stored in BDCSL's data center were deleted, and the Construction Permit (CP) system was stopped after a malicious attack. The system was later reactivated on December 21. On December 22, Rajuk filed a GD at Motijheel police station, while on January 26, they made an agreement with Buet for investigation over the incident. Buet's investigation team submitted an interim report on the matter on April 29, and their final report is expected soon.

Imagine an Old Dhaka with wider roads, less congestion, better water and electricity supply. That’s what the  Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) wants to achieve in its ambitious plan to refurbish the centuries-old Mughal-era parts of the capital city, better known as Old Dhaka. The city development authority has selected seven spots for renovation of Old Dhaka where feasibility studies are going to start soon. The spots are Islampur, Chawkbazar, Bongshal, Moulvibazar, Hazaribag, Swarighat and Kamrangirchar, where the dwellers face problems like narrow lanes, rundown buildings, high population density, risky electricity connection, lack of pure drinking water, decreasing open spaces and faulty drainage system, said Ashraful Islam, Chief City Planner of Rajuk and Project Director of Rajuk’s Detailed Area Plan (DAP). Read: Chemical warehouses: Old Dhakaites still living with ticking time bombs

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to take high care of environment and ecology while taking up any development project. "Everybody has to pay attention to environment in any project,” she said. “The project has to be executed keeping water reservoirs, adequate green area and rainwater harvesting system.” The prime minister made the directives while witnessing the designs of four projects, which were presented by the Housing and Public Works Ministry and the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) at her official residence Ganobhaban, said a press release from the Press Wing of the Prime Minister’s Office. The four projects are Keraniganj Waterfront Smart City, Conservation of Flood Zone at Turag River and Compact Township Development, Construction of Sheikh Hasina International Convention Centre at Zajira end of Padma Bridge in Shibchar (Madaripur) and Construction of Multistoried Residential Building for Government Officials and Employees at Sher-e Bangla Nagar in Dhaka. Also Read: PM Hasina: I had to redesign the Padma Bridge to make it longer

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday sought information of the assets of Sharifa Begum, wife of Additional DIG Mokhlesur Rahman, from the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK).

 

The long-standing inhabitants and affected people of the Purbachal New Town project area will get plots within next December.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday dropped the names of seven people including former Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) chairman Humayun Khadem from the charge sheet of a case filed over the FR Tower fire.

‘Golden Monir’, an ordinary salesman who turned super rich ‘through corruption’, is going to lose the ownership of 200 plots if the alarming allegations of irregularities surfaced against him are proved right, said the Rajuk Chairman.

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) officials, allowing the construction of illegal buildings, will be under the radar of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) now.