The Situation of Dhaka City Corporation on a Management Perspective

1. Management system overview
Of
Dhaka City Corporation
Presented by:- Yellow Group
Reefat Pasha Rouf
MahbubulAlam Shajal
FoysolMahbub
Raihana IshratJahan Rifa
Farjana Akhter Nisha
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2. 1. Abstract/ Introduction
A. Dhaka is the largest city and capital of Bangladesh; it is the 11th
largest city in
the world in terms of population rather than size. It covers a population of almost
20 million people.
B.Dhaka is almost1400 years old, but founded as a municipality by the British East
India Company on august 1, 1864.Now after independence from Britain and
Pakistan it became a City Corporation.
C.Dhaka City is controlled by a City Corporation; Recently the City Corporation is
divided into two separate zones: Dhaka North City Corporation, and Dhaka South
City Corporation.
D.Dhaka is a separate district and a division among the other 6 districts of
Bangladesh, Dhaka division is consisted of 1 district, 5 subdivisions, 86 unions,
1999 villages, 92 city wards, 855 city neighbourhoods and 27 wards and 133
neighbourhoods.
E.There are approximately 800000 rickshaws in metropolitan Dhaka City, making
it The Rickshaw Capital of the World.
F.Dhaka is the commercial heart of Bangladesh; every day hundreds and
thousands of people migrate into this city from various parts of Bangladesh as a
result the population is increasing 4.2 % every year.

3. 2. Review of Dhaka City
A. Dhaka City is located at the banks of the Buriganga River.
B. Dhaka has mayoralelections, and other division elect chairpersons, mayorsand
chairpersons are elected for five years, Dhaka City Corporation is controlled by
city development agency (CDA)-(RAJUK).
C. The Gross municipal product (GMP)of Dhaka is registered at $85 billion (2009).
With an annual growth rate of 6.2%, theGMP is projected to rise to $215billion by
2025.
D.The annual per capita income of Dhaka is estimated at $1,350(USD).
Growth has been especially strong in the finance, banking, manufacturing,
telecommunications and services sectors, while tourism, hotels and restaurants
continue as important elements in the economy of Dhaka.
E.The Gross Municipal Product of Dhaka (GMP) is $85 Billion Dollar, with an
annual growth rate of 6.2%, the GMP is projected to rise $215 Billion Dollar by
2025.
F. Even tough with this high amount of growth 34% of the household’s lives below
the poverty line, half of the workforce is households and unrecognised sector,
while about 100, 0,000 workers are in the garments sector, but still the
unemployment remains high at 19% in Dhaka City.

4. 3. Present Situation of Dhaka City
A. Unplanned urban development of Dhaka made direct impact on the city,
especially it brought seasonal inundations. Unplanned improvement harshly
damaged and affected the city.
B. Process of ceaseless human interferences in the forms of encroachment in the
low lands and unplanned construction of roads, buildings, flyover, and
overbridges is greatly affecting the hydrological situation of Dhaka city.
C.Current rate of urban growth of Dhaka City is 3.5% which is the highest in the
world. As a result of rapid urbanization is creating poverty and adding vast
number of poor population in the Dhaka city
D.The rapid growth of Dhaka City without planning and control has brought great
misery or the people of this city, and tremendous burden on the capacity of urban
government. As a result there is a large amount of indiscriminate amount of
municipalities which added miseries t the problem and have little fiscal or
administrative capacity.
E.30-50% Of the Urban Population lives in marginal informal settlements, such
as:-slums etc. The environmental situations throughout the urban areas are very
poor, to upkeep the basic infrastructureserviceof the city such as: - water supply,
Drainage system, sanitation, refuse collection and disposal, road building and
maintenance of open space and park or traffic management became almost an
impossible task.
F.Flooding is already a common environmental problem of Dhaka City, and it’s
quite severe and the consequences are disastrous. By virtue Dhaka is considered
one of the city most susceptible to climate related disasters, especially floods.
G. it is necessary to manage these problems efficiently and enhance Dhaka’s
position in the world.

5. 4. Problem Statement of Dhaka City
A. Dhaka is one of the most polluted cities on earth; it is a sub-standard city in
terms of cleanliness, because of lack of financial support for managing waste, less
work force, old waste management system, technical difficulties, political
corruption, and irresponsibility with unawareness of generalpublic. As a result, an
unhygienic and filthy living condition has been developing rapidly in all the urban
areas including residential areas.
B. Buriganga River had been poisoned for more than 20 years, the river is so
contaminated that only touching the water will cause skin irritation in someone’s
body.
C.Dhaka City Water supply is so contaminated that no matter how many water
supply plants, treatment plants, well fields are created and dug, it will take at
least 40 or 50 years to clean the filth all around the city.
D. Majority of the inhabitants of Dhaka City are affected once a week or month
with waterborne or airborne disease.
E. The number of automobiles in Dhaka city increase 20% annually. Majority of
the vehicles are 2nd
hand from developed parts of the world which are faulty
vehicles, and emit carbon-di-oxide gas heavily, majority of the buses made in this
country are of poor quality and always prone to accident. Public owned bus
service is of poor quality and standard.
F. with only a little amount of rainfall Dhaka is inundated with internal floodings,
because Dhaka City cannot cope with its huge amount of population who cannot
be served with the limited amount of facilities provided by the Dhaka WASA, City
Corporation, and City Development Authority (CDA) (RAJUK).

6. 5. Methodology / Style of Resolving problem of Dhaka City
A. To reduce water crises, we should stop misusing water supply, we should close
off water off water pipes after using it, we should reduce our use of water taps
and fountains, and we should not connect ourselves to fake or forged water
supply lines.
B.To reduce gas problem we should stop over spending of gas, we should switch
off gas stove after using it, we must close off gas oven after using it.
C. To reduce air pollution we need to allow clean emission based vehicles; we
need to create green standards to reduce air pollution, we need to create special
chemical filter in the factory, we must start green solution to reduce air pollution
in Dhaka City.
D. To reduce electricity supply we must start to increase more electricity supply in
the city, we must establish more electricity companies, we must establish water
power plant and nuclear power plant, we should start to embrace solar power
plants, and finally we need to reduce our wastage of electricity supply.
E.To reduce traffic jam and road congestion we need to create spacious roads,
more flyovers and bridges, we need to follow traffic rules, we must create a
constructive city plan, we need to establish a well funded city plan we must ban
rickshaw and we should ban outdated vehicles that are prone to accident.
F. To reduce problems related to the garbage collection, we should create more
public toilets and public bathrooms, we should have an efficient waste
management policy, we should have an efficient waste management policy, and
we should have a policy to differentiate garbage’s based upon its quality and
standards.
G. To reduce accommodation problem we need to address it with introducing to
low cost apartments, government housing programs, affordable housing policy
etc.

7. 6. Findings
A. Because of population explosion Dhaka has no private or public place or zones,
just like any other great modern city of the world. Even if there are any lack of
maintenance and corruption makes that place dirty and filthy.
B. The two major rivers of Dhaka city are so much polluted namely Buriganga and
Shittalakhya that no matter how many water purification plants or water
filteration plants are implanted only a correctly planning and programming policy
can save Dhaka from internal and external food and inundation.
C. So much so because of lacking related to proper controlling of air pollution
there is a greater risk of airborne diseases waterborne disease for the inhabitants
o Dhaka city, because the air is pouted with lead, carbon di oxide and various
other chemicals, and the water is fu of dirts and garments chemicals.
D. There is also an unplanned city development happened with Dhaka city for
more than 30 years, as a result low wet lands have been turned into residential
areas, which are easily engulfed with floods and other disasters and other times
roads and highways are full of traffic jams and congestion because of ill planning
and corrupt development.
E.To counter this a new mega city with proper planning should need to be erected
and created by the city government.
F.Master planning is necessary to reduce air and water pollution in Dhaka city,
and new power plants should be allowed to produce electricity for the people of
Dhaka.
G.To reduce population explosion a nationwide campaign is important to force
people in order to accept family planning policy, mostly this policy should and
must be implemented to low income families, and as well as new factories mils
jobs must be created in the country side to reduce immigration in Dhaka city.

8. 7. Future of Dhaka City
A. To have a Great Future for Dhaka City, we have to establish a Delta Oriented
riverine Dhaka City Plan.
B. We need to introduce new embankments, dams, canals, to save Dhaka.
C. It is important and necessary to save and rescue the destroyed lakes and rivers
surrounding the Dhaka City.
D.A clear cut policy should must be carried out to clean up and clear out all the
filth around Buriganga River to rescue the river from further pollution, because
it’s the heart of Dhaka City.
E.More parks, amusement parks, museums need to be created to reduce the
problem related to public and private spaces for people, and safe walking zones
must be provided for the citizens of Dhaka, and strong anti crime policy should be
introduced to reduce the amount of offenders in Dhaka City.
F.To ease traffic jam and road congestion it is quite crucial for the CDA (City
Development Authority)(RAJUK) to establish Underground Tube Rail Station,
Elevated Express Way, and Metro Rail for the greater benefit of citizen of Dhaka
and the plan must be approved by the Central Government.
The End