Seven more community centres will be constructed in the two city corporations of the capital soon.
“Construction work of these community centres is scheduled to be completed in 2016 and all of these 5-storey centres will have all modern facilities, including banquet hall, restaurant, gym, swimming pool, day-care centre and cybercafe,,” said Executive Engineer of the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Khandker Mahbub Alam.
Of the proposed seven centres, six will be constructed in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and one in DNCC. Dhaka Urban Infrastructure Equipment Private Limited Project will implement the project.
Executive Engineer of the DSCC Tanvir Ahmed said sites had already been selected in Jurain, Sutrapur and Kamrangirchar for construction of three community centres. Out of the existing 36 community centres in DSCC, 22 centres are now in bad shape and steps have already been taken to renovate these centres, he added.
The DSCC earned Tk16,800,000 by leasing out the community centres to the people in fiscal year 2014-15.
DNCC’s social welfare and cultural affairs official Abdul Bari said there are 13 community centres in the five zones of DNCC. Of these centres, DNCC is using its Banani centre as its office while RAB is using Mohammadpur, Maghbazar and Khilgaon centres as office. General people can use other centres for their different programmes.
Besides, the DNCC earned Tk 1,66,29,000 as rent from these community centres in fiscal year 2014-15.
