Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 1068 Sun. June 03, 2007  
   
Star City


Chronological Accounts Of Two Gulshan Parks
Gulshan South Park
* Public Works Ministry hands over the park to DCC in 1982 for maintenance.

* DCC's 416 sweeper families took illegal possession of it.

* Freed from a 25-year long illegal occupancy in first week of October 2005.

* Chief executive officer of DCC on 2nd November 2005 tells the Daily Star that they would build a three-feet see-through wall but builds a six-feet solid wall.

* The Prime Minister's Office asks DCC in a letter no-1.0.16.0.0.2.2005/188/2 on 26 October 2005 to set up the green park immediately.

* Environmentalists demonstrate on October 28, 2005 for the park.

* Public works minister on 20 November 2005 expresses ministry's clear stand to retain the park in a letter no DO-2005/407.

* Rajuk on 2nd November 2005 asserts in a letter no-1128 /5 that it would not accept anything other than a park.

* In December 2005, mayor expresses his plan for commercial use of the parkland.

* Gulshan Society and two residents file writ petition no-9268 of 2005.

* A High Court bench issues rule and status quo on 15th December 2005 upon the DCC authorities.

* The PMO on March 15, 2006 instructs the DCC authorities not to go for any commercial use of the site.

* Currently the park is left as an abandoned land regularly occupied wit car parking during working days.

Wonderland (Gulshan Central Park)
* The DCC dubiously leases out a portion in 1990 to Messer's Bhaiya Media at a token price for Wonderland Children Park.

* The PMO on July 11, 2003 instructs the DCC to return both central park and south park to Rajuk within a month.

* A Gulshan resident MA Reza files a writ petition in 1995.

* A division bench of the High Court on May 24, 2007 orders the authorities of Wonderland to remove all the establishments within six months.