Rajuk Approval Plan

Rajuk Approval Plan

If a developer company or an individual property owner wishes to construct building in Dhaka city, permission from the concerned government authority is required to begin construction. In Dhaka city, RAJUK has the development authority of the capital and approves building design and plan before the start of a project. Although the approval process is a bureaucratic and lengthy process. Following guideline will help to get RAJUK plan approval.

Town Planning Clearance

  • 3 copies of application forms signed by you.
  • 3 copies of 15cm x 20 cm survey map displaying site map plan, in mouza map of location signed by you.
  • Receipt of the mandatory Government fee deposit.

After this, a site inspection is carried out by RAJUK and a report with site related information is given to the Town Planning section. The site related information includes:

  • Area of the land
  • Land use within a 250meter radius of the property
  • Name and width of the closest main road
  • Name and width of nearest street joining the plot
  • Existence of any main road, station market, river terminal, airport, etc. within 250m of the plot.
  • Average road benchmark elevation
  • Land use around north, south, east, west sides of the land

After thorough study of the report by the Town Planner, permission is given to the developer company or applicant for a 24-month period during which plan has to be submitted to RAJUK.

Plan Approval

After receiving Town Planning Clearance and all the other Departmental Clearances, another application of RAJUK has to be submitted to concerned officer/ committee of RAJUK for approval along with the required fee. The application requires the following data:

  • Name of applicant
  • Present address
  • Type of use of the proposed building
  • Details of proposed land with the area
  • Details of the type of use with area
  • Measurements of plot in all four sides with the location of North, South, East, West in meters
  • The total floor area of the proposed project
  • Number of apartments per floor for residential properties
  • Number of floors above the plinth
  • Basement covered with the percentage of land area
  • The floor area of different types of use
  • Width of adjacent roads in the front, rear, left, and right side
  • Details of the existing structure if present
  • Set back length in meters on the front, rear, left, and right side.

The required documents are:

  • Deed of land
  • Allotment Deed, if allotted by Government
  • Receipt of payment of the fee
  • FAR calculation
  • Documents and drawings as per requirement
  • Land Town Planning clearance
  • Special project clearance, if required
  • Indemnity Bond, if required
  • Soil test report, if required
  • Required plan, elevation, section
  • No objection certificate from other departments, if required.

After relevant data along with documents have been submitted, concerned inspector carries out site inspection and provides detailed report to the concerned authority. The concerned officer then presents the documents to the “Building Construction” committee with recommendations required for plan approval.

After satisfactory fulfillment of all the requirements, the committee members of RAJUK approves the drawing with detail number and reference and delivers the approval to the Developer Company or applicant.