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Housing
needs of lower, middle and upper income group of the population
remained unattended and a considerable demand for housing
started accumulating in the private sector. To meet this growing
demand, EHL started building up a land bank by private purchase
of free hold land in seasonal flood free areas on the peripheries
of Dhaka City. The first land development project of EHL,
the Pallavi Housing of the sixties came to be a very successful
scheme. It was a project of some 1000 villa type independent
houses with necessary planned services and requirements where
customers could own the house by paying monthly installments
on easy terms. Afterwards, housing like Mohammadpur and Mirpur
Housing Estates were also developed on similar pattern.
After
the independence of Bangladesh, with rapidly increasing demand
for land for housing, EHL started the development of residential
estates in various locations of Dhaka. In this sector also
EHL was the pioneering leader completing and selling over
600 acres of land in the last 20 years to its customers in
24 projects.
EHL
has also made a contributing role in the building and selling
of apartments. These apartments both of walk-up type and high-rise
residential blocks have been serving a substantial number
of city dwellers. In the last 15 years it has completed 1600
units of apartments and have also built some very modern shopping
plazas and complexes.
GEOTECHNICAL
ACTIVITIES IN LAND DEVELOPMENT
Eastern Housing Limited has embarked upon large scale land
development in some areas with an initial 1000 acres of land
involving placement and stabilization of borrowed soil. Filling
was done hydraulically bringing soil by dredging from a distance
of 3 to 5 km. Wherever necessary, this fill and the soft virgin
ground below were
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