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The Daily Star reported the start the day after it happened, naming the registration site cp.rajukdhaka.gov.bd and describing land use clearance and construction permit as 'two fundamental approvals required for constructing a building in the capital'.", "caveat": "RAJUK's jurisdiction is the Dhaka metropolitan development plan area, which reaches beyond the two Dhaka city corporations into Gazipur, Narayanganj and Keraniganj, so 'greater Dhaka' is the accurate description and not the city itself.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-38a55eb48efec9bb", "field": "snippet", "text": "replaced that portal with the Electronic Construction Permitting System, launched on 19 September 2021 under the World Bank-financed Urban Resilience Project and built with the US consultancy RTI International", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-07f49b26a36037c7", "src-79fcf0f89d0d271d" ], "supportNote": "The Financial Express report of 20 September 2021 describes the launch on the previous day, Sunday 19 September: 'State Minister for Housing and Public Works (MoHPW) Sharif Ahmed inaugurated the ECP system at a ceremony organised by RAJUK's Urban Resilience Project (URP) at a city hotel', and 'The World Bank has been providing financial support to the URP and a US-based consulting firm, RTI International, has been providing other necessary support.' Prothom Alo confirms the same lineage: 'under the World Bank-financed Urban Resilience Project, RAJUK launched the ECPS ... The system was developed by a US-based company called RTI', and separately reports that new applications now go through the ECPS rather than the older portal.", "caveat": "RAJUK sources quoted by Prothom Alo date the ECPS to 2023 rather than 2021 and put its cost at Tk 480 million. The September 2021 event is a documented launch ceremony; whether the system entered routine service then or two years later is not resolved by either source, and this entry does not resolve it either.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-7ea0854f00fb2b1e", "field": "snippet", "text": "ECPS is an account-based workflow rather than a public register: a visitor without a login is offered a zone lookup, helpline numbers and notices, nothing more", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-ed5f1c261a8699f7" ], "supportNote": "Read directly from the portal on 27 August 2026. The served HTML gives the anonymous role ('rolename = Anonymous') and renders the Global Report, Daily Report Mail and Suspended Professionals navigation items inside containers carrying an inline style=\"display: none;\". What remains visible is the 'Find Zone/Subzone' link, the per-zone helpline numbers and the notice pop-ups; every other function sits behind App_Login. There is no map, no searchable permit register and no published dataset for a visitor without an account.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-53d52f6dbc9ddf5e", "field": "snippet", "text": "In August 2026 it was again not accepting new applications, while it was rebuilt around the Dhaka Metropolitan Building Rules 2025", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-ed5f1c261a8699f7" ], "supportNote": "The portal's Bengali urgent notice, read on 27 August 2026, states that because system upgrade work is under way in accordance with the Dhaka Metropolitan Building Rules 2025, the submission of plan approval, special project clearance, construction approval and appeal applications is temporarily closed, and that processing of applications submitted under the previous rules continues as usual.", "caveat": "'Again' refers to the earlier three-month suspension of May to August 2025, which had a different cause. The portal gives no date for the current closure and no date for reopening.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-e5cdd5991c6b7c19", "field": "impact", "text": "RAJUK's Development Control Division counted 56,729 applications and 42,007 approved buildings between July 2018 and May 2025", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-79fcf0f89d0d271d" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'RAJUK's Development Control Division reported that a total of 56,729 applications were submitted between July 2018 and May 2025, and 42,007 buildings were approved.' The same paragraph records that officials of the relevant RAJUK department could not give a total for design approvals issued since RAJUK's establishment.", "caveat": "These are RAJUK's own counts reported through the press, not an audited series, and the article notes that RAJUK could not produce a total for its whole history.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-c2269a0ef3f4633b", "field": "impact", "text": "a span covering both the earlier portal and ECPS", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-79fcf0f89d0d271d" ], "supportNote": "The window July 2018 to May 2025 begins before the May 2019 launch of the earlier online portal and ends after the ECPS was in use, so the count cannot be attributed to ECPS alone. Prothom Alo sets out the same sequence in the article: limited online land-use clearance from 2016, all zones by 2018, both services online from May 2019, and the ECPS under the Urban Resilience Project thereafter.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-94b81f5371b7fda0", "field": "impact", "text": "officials putting the flow at around a thousand applications a month and a typical approval at 45 days", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-79fcf0f89d0d271d" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'Officials also noted that each month, around 1,000 applications are filed for design approvals and land-use clearances.' And separately: 'According to RAJUK sources, once an online application is submitted with all required documents, construction approval is typically obtained within 45 days. It may take another 30 days if errors are detected.'", "caveat": "Both figures are RAJUK's own statements to the newspaper, not a measured distribution, and the 45 days is the stated norm rather than an observed median.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-f041a8db71da99db", "field": "impact", "text": "The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, reviewing the project that paid for the system, found that RAJUK started issuing e-permits for construction as targeted", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-328edd27370d29e6" ], "supportNote": "The Independent Evaluation Group's review covers the Bangladesh Urban Resilience Project (P149493), the project under which RAJUK built the ECPS; its Component C financed 'the infrastructure for an integrated mechanism for land use and zoning clearance and construction permitting system'. On delivery it states verbatim: 'The Capital Development Authority (RAJUK) started issuing e-permits for construction as targeted.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-290126935245c2cc", "field": "impact", "text": "rated that objective substantial only because of the limited evidence on final outcomes, noting the indicators were output-oriented", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-328edd27370d29e6" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'Efficacy of this PDO is rated as substantial due to the limited evidence on final outcomes.' The paragraph immediately above states of the same objective: 'These indicators were output-oriented.'", "caveat": "The rating covers the whole objective of strengthening systems to reduce the vulnerability of future building construction in Dhaka and Sylhet, of which the permitting system is one of four delivered outputs, not the permitting system on its own.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-3b8fc48201c7451c", "field": "impact", "text": "several sub-projects lacked allocated operation and maintenance funding when the project closed", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-328edd27370d29e6" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim, under Risk to Development Outcome: 'The ICR notes that at the time of project closing, several of the sub-projects financed under the project lacked allocated operation and maintenance funding.'", "caveat": "The Independent Evaluation Group writes this of the project's sub-projects in general; it does not name the permitting system as one of them.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-8f9bd41036573b6d", "field": "lesson", "text": "On 19 May 2025 a design approval for a 15-storey building at Baunia badh in Mirpur, a wetland and height-restricted plot that had already been refused, was issued in seventeen minutes using a RAJUK official's ID and password", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-79fcf0f89d0d271d" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'a group managed to obtain design approval for a 15-storey building within just 17 minutes on 19 May. The building was located in the Baunia badh area of Mirpur, a wetland and height-restricted zone, and had previously been denied approval.' On the mechanism: 'Sources indicated that the server was not hacked; instead, fraud was carried out using the ID and password of a RAJUK official to obtain approval.' The report notes that RAJUK later claimed its server had been hacked, but that the applicant had paid Tk 154,000 in fees by credit card, which would not have been possible in a hack, and that three people were arrested after police raids in Motijheel.", "caveat": "RAJUK's own account was that the server had been hacked. The attribution to a misused official login is what unnamed sources told Prothom Alo, and the newspaper's own reasoning from the card payment; it has not been established by a published investigation or a court.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-f6358b1f94d13ccc", "field": "lesson", "text": "online services then stayed down for three months", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-79fcf0f89d0d271d" ], "supportNote": "The report's opening sentence dates the outage: 'The suspension of RAJUK's activities related to approving building construction designs and issuing land-use clearances for three months has placed real estate businesses in Dhaka at financial risk.' It sets out the start, 'On 19 May, after a security vulnerability was detected in the system, all online activities were suspended', and the partial restart, 'RAJUK announced that it would partially resume online operations from 21 August', with nearly 4,500 design approval applications and more than 500 land-use clearance applications pending in the meantime.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2662bc1f7d586ac5", "field": "lesson", "text": "The contract with the firm that maintained the software had expired in June 2024 and no successor had been appointed", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-79fcf0f89d0d271d" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'The contract with the company Dohatec, which had been responsible for managing RAJUK's software, expired in June 2024. Their job was to maintain and keep the software operational. After the contract ended, no new company was assigned responsibility. RAJUK also lacks its own IT team capable of maintaining the server and software.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6562c7509ccaf9bd", "field": "lesson", "text": "a 2020 Bangladesh Institute of Planners study counted 21.46 lakh establishments in RAJUK's area of which 20.60 lakh had no approved design at all", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-eebc2688618a3563" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim: 'According to a 2020 study by the Bangladesh Institute of Planners, the Rajuk area has a total of 21.46 lakh establishments, of which 20.60 lakh do not have approved designs while only 85,500 have followed a proper layout.' The report also cites a Transparency International Bangladesh study on bribes of Tk 5,000 to Tk 100,000 paid to RAJUK officials to proceed with construction.", "caveat": "The counts are the institute's, reported through the press; the underlying study was not read directly. A lakh is one hundred thousand, so the figures are about 2.15 million and 2.06 million. The newspaper's headline figure of 96 per cent is its own arithmetic on these two numbers and is not used here.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6cc116404871c232", "field": "lesson", "text": "the rulebook the system enforces is itself contested, since the Detailed Area Plan gazetted on 24 August 2022 was reopened under developer pressure", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-158c3d5661ca44d7", "src-ca6d1c96d32dc5ec" ], "supportNote": "The Detailed Area Plan is the land-use and floor-area rulebook that a construction permit is checked against. Verbatim from The Daily Star: 'The push to amend DAP began soon after a gazette on it was published on August 24, 2022, with developers and landowners opposing FAR restrictions', and 'At the end of last year, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) began drafting an amendment following intensified lobbying and pressure from real estate developers.' The Business Standard confirms the amendment process was still running as an advisory committee exercise in October 2025.", "caveat": "That developer lobbying drove the amendment is the reporting of The Daily Star, which also quotes the environment adviser saying the review followed difficulty among stakeholders in accepting the 2022 plan and the developers' association welcoming the change.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6bf1a8333624839a", "field": "lesson", "text": "an advisory committee approved raising floor area ratios across most of the capital on 19 October 2025", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-ca6d1c96d32dc5ec", "src-158c3d5661ca44d7" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim from The Business Standard, published the same day: 'The advisory committee reviewing Dhaka's Detailed Area Plan (DAP) 2022-2035 has given policy approval, along with several amendment proposals, raising the maximum building height in almost all areas of the capital', and 'Under the amendments, FAR and population density will increase in almost all areas under Rajuk's jurisdiction.' The Daily Star quantifies the draft: 'Most of the capital's 68 zones have seen a rise in FAR ranging from 20 to 80 percent.'", "caveat": "This was policy approval by the committee; The Business Standard reports the ministry saying the updated plan 'will soon be published as a gazette', and no gazette had been confirmed as published at the time of checking.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-79fcf0f89d0d271d", "title": "Prothom Alo, on the three-month suspension of RAJUK's online permitting (media)", "url": "https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/government/mfwy1kbo3c", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "en.prothomalo.com", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-2f4effd2c11d04c5", "clm-38a55eb48efec9bb", "clm-e5cdd5991c6b7c19", "clm-c2269a0ef3f4633b", "clm-94b81f5371b7fda0", "clm-8f9bd41036573b6d", "clm-f6358b1f94d13ccc", "clm-2662bc1f7d586ac5" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2025-08-29", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-26", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Reported account of the suspension of design approval and land-use clearance between 19 May and late August 2025. Carries the pending caseload, the 19 May fraudulent approval at Baunia badh, the expired Dohatec maintenance contract, the 6 December 2023 loss of about 30,000 documents, the Development Control Division counts of 56,729 applications and 42,007 approved buildings for July 2018 to May 2025, and the sequence by which RAJUK went online (2016 limited land-use clearance, 2018 all zones, May 2019 both services). 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It records that RAJUK started issuing e-permits as targeted, that four systems were delivered against a target of three, and that the objective's efficacy is rated substantial only because of limited evidence on final outcomes with output-oriented indicators. 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