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DHAKA RICH REGIONS

• Gulshan thana is upper class suburb

• Includes main modern entertainment .eg. Shopping malls, restaurants, theatres, markets and bars.

• Located on Buriganga river and has nice housing.

Banks of the Buriganga river, showing across the river Gulshan Thana

Centre of Gulshan Thana, wealthy apartments.

Dhaka poor regions

• Dhaka slums is home to 4 million

• Korail Bosti largest slum in Dhaka is home to 120,000

• 1/3 of Dhaka live in unstable houses

Korail bosti rail way

Tahara, Dhaka slum. Houses are made from bamboo stilts

Fire in a Dhaka slum left 450 homeless

After bulldozers destroyed houses in Korail Bosti

Korail Bosti

Gulshan Thana

WASTE OF DHAKA

Dhaka Waste

• Each day the city generates 3500 tonnes

• 15% of the cities waste goes to make organic fertiliser.

• Creating organic waste gives jobs to 120000 people.

http://www.wsp.org/node/146

http://www.perspectivebd.com/slums-in-dhaka-city-life-of-misery

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