Staff Reporter

Architects, urban planners and experts at a meeting in the city said population increase rate in Dhaka city is 4.34 per cent per year and five lakh people are being added to the population of the city annually.
To accommodate these new people the city needs one lakh dwelling units every year. Due to various constraints supply is far behind the demand, they said.
Dhaka city needs 25 lakh dwelling units, but there are 2.25 lakh residential buildings where 20 to 30 lakh people are accommodated. [Read more]