The four-day long housing fair that started in Chittagong Club Table Tennis Complex yesterday witnessed huge crowd as the participating companies are offering lucrative facilities, including discounts and gifts.
Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (Rehab) has organised the fair.
From the very beginning of the fair, all the stalls were seen overcrowded as the people are looking for the best offers being provided by the participating real estates and developers. To attract the visitors of all ages, they organised different programmes this year, said Engineer Iftekhar Hossain, committee convener of the 8th Rehab Fair.
He said: “As the enthusiastic crowd were seen even in the adverse weather, we expect more visitors in the following days.”
Emon Das, a junior executive (sales and marketing) of SAF Holdings, noted that his company is showcasing some of their projects having special offers marking the occasion.
Assistant manager (sales and marketing) Md Akram Uddin of Epic Properties said his company has come up with some cheaper offers to attract the middle class families.
Omar Faruk, a visitor who is a businessman, observed that the arrangement of the fair was different from previous years while he was looking for a flat in the city’s Dampara area in a cheaper rate.
A total 67 stalls are set up in the fair while 47 are from REHAB member business organisations, 16 are from building materials organisations and four are from financial organisations.
Besides, the fair will also feature a seminar with the participation of engineers and architects on June 19, “Kids Day” on June 20 and closing ceremony on June 22 through ongoing fair and other amusement programmes to attract the visitors.
Six business organisations are the co-sponsors of the fair while seven others organisations sponsor different events of the fair.
The entry fee is Tk50 and Tk100 for multiple entries for a day and this money will be spent in public welfare activities, said the organisers.
Earlier, state minister for land Saifuzzaman Javed, as chief guest, formally inaugurated the fair by cutting ribbons at around 12:30p.m.
The slogan of this year’s fair is “Gunagata Mane Astha, Nischit Nirapatta” (confidence in quality, safety ensured).
The inaugural ceremony was attended, among others, by Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) chairman Abdus Salam, Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam, REHAB general secretary Md Wahiduzzaman, its Zonal Standing Committee chairman Engineer SM Abu Sufian and 8th REHAB fair committee convener Engineer Iftekhar Hossain.
The programme was presided over by Alamgir Samsul Alamin, president of Real State and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB).
Addressing the inaugural ceremony, the state minister observed that the housing business sector was experiencing a mushroom growth day by day although the crisis of this sector were lessening gradually.
“As our government has planned to develop Chittagong as a standard port city, it is carrying out different development projects in the city, which will be completed in the tenure of the incumbent government,” the minister added. The housing companies have to maintain their credibility to the common people by with better service on time, said CDA chairman.
CMP commissioner said that the housing companies should save the farmlands to ensure the food security as the trend of the housing projects are busy in grabbing the lands indiscriminately across the country.
REHAB president said that the administration and CDA can remove the housing problems of the middle class and lower middle class people by allotting lands for them with the assistance from REHAB.
