Comprehensive Holdings Made Laudable Progress

When asked what was the success story of his company Mr. Engr. Shah Md Masud Ibrahim, Managing Director of Comprehensive Holdings, housing developer company said, the philosophy of our company is quality and commitment. Mr Masud further said that his company gives utmost priority to the interest of the clients under all circumstances.

Comprehensive Holdings was established in 2005 has made laudable progress during a very short period of six years. During this period the company has built more than 200 quality  flats and successfully delivered to the clients. The company has more than 10 coming up projects in city’s posh area.

Mr. Masud said that his company remains alert about customers interests so that there is no complaint from them. Mr. Masud was discussing informally with Gharbari chief editor regarding his idea and philosophy for the development of the housing sector. Masud is a civil engineer graduate from Buet and a fellow of Engineers Institute Bangladesh. After graduation Masud worked for some housing company for sometime and finally started his business under banner of Compressive Holdings.

Readers and viewers of this blog may contact us to know more about Comprehensive Holdings.

One Billion Live In Slum

More than 1 billion people across all continents live in slums. These communities, characterized by inadequate housing, lack of basic services, overcrowding, and high levels of violence and insecurity, are also places where residents live, work, and raise their children. Yet, many governments are failing in their duty to protect the rights of these people.

Global slum populations are growing at alarming rates. Disinvestment in rural areas, conflict, natural disasters, climate change, forced evictions and corporate land grabbing continue to force people to migrate to cities where affordable housing is scarce.

People living in slums experience a staggering number of human rights violations. They are routinely denied their right to adequate housing, safe water, sanitation and drainage, electricity, health and education, and face the constant threat of police and gang violence, and forced eviction.

Slum residents pay disproportionately high rents because rent control legislation is rarely imposed in areas considered by the authorities to be “unregularized”. Access to justice is denied because of discrimination and residents have no say in the upgrading of homes or services.

The absence of health facilities and schools within many slums severely restricts access to health care and education. Malnutrition and child mortality rates in slums often match rural areas.

Many urban residents in the developing world lack legal papers guaranteeing security of tenure, increasing their susceptibility to forced eviction and restricting access to services and formal employment. Often, people who live in slums without official documentation are also denied the right to vote.

Forced evictions are a violation of human rights and often result in people losing their possessions, social networks, and access to work and services. Mass forced evictions are increasingly carried out by governments so that slums can be cleared for urban development, city beautification or national projects, such as the Beijing Olympics.

Women are particularly vulnerable in slums, where lack of facilities place them at greater risk of sexual assault and harassment, and where the reporting of domestic violence is often not treated seriously by police. Property law also frequently discriminates against women.

The negative perceptions of people living in slums have contributed directly to a serious deterioration in public security in these communities. In Brazil and Jamaica, this failure by the state has allowed criminal gangs and drug factions to dominate virtually every aspect of life.

Governments have failed to address these issues at both national and international levels. Amnesty International is calling on governments to end forced evictions, ensure equal access to public services for people living in slums, and ensure their active participation in all plans directed at slum upgrading.

 

Momen Real Estates Believes In Quality & Commitment.

The principal phylosophy of our company is to maintain quality and standard to meet the demand of our clients. This was stated by architect Riad Momen, Managing Director of  Momen Real Estates Limited(MRE) while talking with Gharbari, the pioneer housing magazine of Bangladesh on November 1, 2009.

Mr. Riad is a graduate in architecture from BUET and worked for different  developer companies for about a half a decade to acquire experiance and knowledge of the sector. He started his own company in the year 2000. It may be mentioned here that Riad’s father Brig.Gen(Rtd) AHM Abdul Momen is the founder President of REHAB. Mr. Momen is now working as the chairman of  MRE. Riad said that his company has completed  and handed over more than 400 flats to its  clients. Another 150 flats will be ready by 2010 and would be handed over to clients right in time. Riad, an energetic young entreprenuer was very positive and optimistic about housing sector’s progress in near future.

Regarding the quality of membership of REHAB Mr. Riad observed that through the error and trials quality of the membership would be improved and in future process of new membership approval would be more systematic. He said, let there be fair competition among developers and clients would get better opportunities to buy flats or plots at a very competitive price. While answering  a question about his company Mr. Riad said that MRE never went for over trading and undertaking projects beyond capacities. He further stated that MRE never took more than 10 projects a year.  Riad said that strict adherence to commitment has given a positive and benefitial image for his company.

Flat buyers may visit website www.momen-realestates.com to know MRE more detail.

Rehab Takes Action Against Bad Members

Mizanur Rahman Dewan, Managing Director of Alien Properties said that if any bad developers  were there in Rehab they would be out of business through competition of the free market.  Bad developers in the list of Rehab members who brought negative image for Rehab would also face association’s screening committee for their unfair performance, Mr. Dewn said. Mr. Dewan is an MBA and have good experience in housing industries.Mr. Dewan has worked in different developers company for some years and finally has decided to launch his own company five years back on 16th December, 2004.

Mr. Dewan is a young energetic positive person with a strong vision to contribute for country’s housing sector. He was very happy with the progress of his company. But he said that undesirable delay in approving plan by Rajuk has created a dampen environment in the housing market. Housing sector had a serious setback during socalled caretaker Government.  The sector could not regain yet its earlier voyant situation, Mr. Dewan observed.

Regarding membership of Rehab Mr. Dewan informed that strong scruitiny would be done  when new applications would be there before the committee.  Mr. Dewan firther reported that Rehab had delisted some companies from the membership when complaints against them were proved.

97 Year Old Homeless Gets Home

The 97 year old homeless woman from LA is no longer sleeping on the streets. Her story, published Friday in the LA Times, garnered national disbelief and prompted service providers to act quickly to move her into housing.

Bessie Mae Berger was 97 years old and living in a beat up 1973 Chevy Suburban with her two sons. The LA Times exposed their plight on Friday, detailing how the trio sleeps, moves from parking lot to parking lot, and occasionally panhandles for food. Their plight caught national attention, prompting LA and California authorities to take immediate action.

Today, the three are safely housed – together, as they wished – in the California Retirement Villa. It’s a temporary situation, currently slated to last three months. But the organization says they are committed to helping this family obtain long-term benefits.

Let’s breathe a collective sigh of relief now that one especially fragile woman and her two elderly sons are off the streets. What whatever you do, don’t get complacent. There are thousands of other elderly homeless individuals hidden in cars, alleys, tent cities, and shelters across the U.S.

Where is the outrage that will move them into housing?

 

World Habitat Day

State Minister incharge of Ministry of Housing and Works Mr. Abdul Mannan Khan said that four setellite town would be built around capital city Dhaka with one lakh flats for each town. The state minister was speaking as chief guest at a seminar organised by PWD at their auditorium on the occasion of World Habitat Day.  The habitat day is observed globally every year on first Moday of October. This day is observed by member countries of UN to protect the housing rights of the people globally.

Ministry of Land Goes Online

Land Minister Rezaul Karim Heera has formally inaugurated the online management of  land surver and records on October 4 ,2009 at Tejgaon land surver and records. The minister said on the occasion that online management of land surver,records and registration would make the system flawless and corruption free. All tenders of the ministry would be available on website of the Ministry of Land, the minister hoped. Bidders would not require to collect and submit tender forms physically and hence snatchers would not be able to create any problem for the bidders.

Land Price

The Government is planning to raise land prices in urban area including metro cities soon. A six member committee has been formed with an additional secretary of Law Ministry as chairman. The committee will submit report before October 31. Land prices of other areas of the country has been raised earlier including registration fees. The goverment will also raise flat transfer fees.

There is a demand from the public that government should stop land business by different government agencies.

1077 Purbachal Plots Alloted

A total 1,077 residential plots have been allotted among the applicants for  Rajuk’s Purbachal housing project. The lottery for the applicants from four categories — judges, freedom fighters, artist-cultural personality-sportsperson and non-resident Bangladeshis — was held at Osmani Memorial Hall on Thursday. Judges under two categories have been allotted 14 plots—a seven-and-a-half-katha plot and 13 ten-katha ones. Of the 296 plots for the freedom fighters, 10-katha plots were 16, seven-and-a-half-katha plots were 36, 134 were five-katha plots and 110 were three-katha ones. Under the artist-cultural personality-sportsperson category, 176 plots were allotted, of which nine were 10-katha plots, 21 were seven-and-a-half -katha plots, 80 were five-katha and 66 three-katha. For the NRBs, 591 plots were allotted, of which 32 were 10-katha plots, 72 seven-and-a-half-katha, 267 were five-katha and 220 three-katha. Golam Kibria, acting chairman of the cpaital’s development authority Rajuk, state minister for housing Abdul Mannan Khan and housing secretary Mahbubur Rahman were present at the draw of lottery. Mannan Khan, who formally inaugurated the draw, said 22, 673 applications were received under the four categories, of which 1512 incomplete submissions were cancelled during scrutiny. Only 6,000 of the 17,500 residential plots under the Purbachal project are available after the past governments had allotted over 11,000 plots. Officials at Rajuk said as many as 1.65 lakh people applied for the plots of the two projects after Rajuk invited applicants to the lottery last year. Deposit money will be returned to unsuccessful aspirants, officials said.

Ship Breaking Industry Growing Fast In Bangladesh

Import of scrap ships doubled during last fiscal year amounting to 2.2 million tonnes as against 0.97 million tonnes during 2007- 08. The number of ships imported during last fiscal year was 197 as against 120 ships in 2007-8. A spokesman of the Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association( BSBA)said recently that currently 69 ship breaking companies are operating in Bangladesh. Since demand of raw materials has  increased during these years more companies are coming up as breaker. New 19 companies have become member of the association  during the period.

It may be mentioned here that India breaks 1.5 million tonnes a year followed by China with 1.3 million tonnes and Turkey with 0.60 tonnes. Bangladesh has become a leading ship breaker in the global market.