Against the backdrop of the situation, CCC on Sunday has written a letter to the ministry for local government for asking CDA through the ministry of housing and public works to take decision jointly with it in this regard reviewing the legal aspects, sources said.

Both the CDA and the CCC will hold a meeting to come to a decision regarding the matter this week, they said.

"We will be able to settle the matter at the meeting," said a CCC official.

"None of the CCC commercial buildings have CDA approval. Since CDA claims its rules are compulsory for everybody for construction of such buildings, we are now ready to update the legal aspects of CCC buildings," he added.

Several CCC commercial and market buildings have encroached drains and footpaths ignoring the CDA provisions for urbanisation.

It prompted CDA to serve eviction notice against the CCC buildings under the first phase of its drive against illegal structures. It also issued eviction notices to different hospitals, commercial buildings, clinics, shopping centres, malls, CNG refuelling stations, markets, restaurants, hotels, community centres, show rooms and high rise buildings, sources said.

Under phase -1 around 185 illegal structures were detected in 22 kilometre areas from Kathgar under Patenga Police Station to Bahaddarhat Intersection under Chandgaon Police Station. Agrabad Commercial Area, Sheikh Mujib Road, Asian Highway, Agrabad Access Road and Dhaka Trunk Road have fallen in the 22km stretch.

A CDA official on condition of anonymity said construction of any commercial building requires its prior approval as per building code while CCC waves aside the rules saying that it needs no such an approval for its installations.

Replying to the CDA eviction notice, CCC said it constructed the commercial and market buildings following CCC Act 1982 that does'n say anything about such approval.

CCC urged CDA to reconsider the notices to establishments that are income generating and development projects.

Demolition of these buildings will cause huge loss of CCC as well as the government, affecting several thousand owners and employees, said the CCC in its letter.

The markets CCC urged not to demolish included Bahodderhat Shopping, Chittagong Shopping Complex, Abdul Ali Shopping Arcade at Saraipara, CCC market at Muradpur, Singapore - Bangkok market at Agrabad, Port City Complex at Lalkhan mouza, Chawk Super Market, GEC Intersection Building and the building adjoining Garibullah Mazar.

Several officials at CCC said as a service-oriented organisation CCC also requires CDA approval and should follow building code rules during construction.

They said both CCC and CDA are responsible for overall development of the port city.

Earlier, CDA served eviction notices against CCC structures, including Premier University Unit No 1 and 2 buildings, building in front of Garibullah Shah Mazar, market building at GEC intersection, which were constructed without CDA approval.

Though most of the notices went unheeded, CCC now plans to shift the educational institutes and markets at Prabartak Intersection elsewhere, said the CCC sources.