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

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) is a Bangladeshi public agency responsible for coordinating urban development in

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. RAJUK is composed of various public officials, 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 * Purbachal New Town * Jhilmil Residential Project * Urban Resilience Project

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