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.
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