The 101 dilapidated buildings in Comilla city of which owners received order from the authorities to pull down them within 15 days still exist in their same position.
Even 28 days after issuance of the demolition notice, the owners have not yet taken any steps regarding the risky buildings.
Nor has been seen any measure from the Comilla City Corporation side to demolish the dilapidated structures, reported UNB.
The city corporation authorities sent letters separately to the building owners on April 29 with order of its mayor Monirul Haque Sakku giving them a 15 days’ deadline to raze the old risky structures.
The letters directed the owners to pull down the buildings at their own initiative and expenditure; otherwise the job will be down by the CCC with its own efforts.
The buildings include government offices, residential houses of government officials, commercial complexes and political party offices.
On May 31, 2009, the Comilla municipality authorities prepared a list of 66 old and vulnerable buildings and its chief executive officer Arif issued a notice to the building owners on June4 asking them to demolish those.
Only six buildings of the 66 were demolished and reconstructed responding to the notice of the municipality authorities. After up-gradation of Comilla municipalty to city corporation, the authorities made another list of old and risky buildings where names of 41 more were added as ‘dangerous’.
The corporation first made a list of 14 buildings of the 41 on April 25 this year and again another list of the rest 27 on 28 April.
The authorities issued separate letters to the owners of all the 101 risky buildings on April 29 to take steps for dismantling those within 15 days.
The notice mentioned that the buildings will be demolished by mobile courts led by magistrates if those were not pulled down within the deadline.
But no steps have been taken regarding the buildings by the city corporation although the deadline ended a couple of weeks ago.
There are also seven more risky buildings in the city, which were constructed violating the building code.