Worker Safety Law in Housing Indudtry

Housing is one of five basic needs of the human race. To make human life safe, secured and better, there is none but to have a home- sweet home. From the time immemorial when Adam and Hawa (AS) started conjugal life, they felt to make homes. The sense of building home had waved in the minds of the succeeding prophets and fellows so discussed shaped and reshaped years after years of struggle.

In Bangladesh , the practicing of make home is very old.

But in the modern metropolitan sphere when concrete- house started to raise heads up, a set of rules for making the standard so urgently felt by the decision-maker that they made Town Improvement Act, 1953 and Building Construction Act, 1952 (East Bengal Act II of 1953. Later Bangladesh Government by the power given in the Building Construction Act, 1952 (East Bengal Act II of 1953) made Dhaka City Building Construction Rules, 2005 that has been duly amended by Dhaka City Building Construction Rules, 2008. Along with Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan (1995-2015) was also made accordingly.

In 2008, an ordinance so made for the development and management of the real estate has not yet been passed by the Government that came to power in 2009 and whether it may be an act is really uncertain, in the one hand, the Environmental Organizations, on the other hand, are demanding to pass the ordinance as an act. Reality is that a lobby of the Government is contesting to REHAB election-2010 is assuring that Real Estate Development and Management Ordinance, 2008 may not be passed as an act since it has curved the interests of the Real Estate Developers. Making mandatory to make registration of the company, barring any advertisement for sale prior getting approval number from the concerned authority (for instance, RAJUK) the ordinance has seriously dissatisfied to a group deal in Real Estate Developing.

In this regard two questions have brought in our mind:

•  What is the problem to get approval number from the authority?...