Governance Characteristics of Dhaka City for Ensuring Implementation of Land Use Planning

Abstract

Governance has become a fashionable term in recent decades, and the concepts of governance and urban governance are defined in a variety of ways. Governance of basic urban services has become a much-debated issue in the last one decade because of their inadequate status for the Dhaka city. Governance of urban basic utilities in Dhaka city is a collective business—around fifty organizations are involved in the provisioning of numerous services/utilities. Based on aforementioned analysis, it might be mentioned that Bangladesh has been facing a number of challenges in the path of democratic or good governance. These issues comprise a lack of accountability and transparency, a lack of government effectiveness and regularity quality, a lack of rule of law, inefficient leadership, ineffective political institutions, rampant corruption, and widespread poverty. The present practice of fragmented governance has ameliorated the surfacing of some critical service problems, namely non-coordination in service management, wastage of resources, inefficient delivery, and public inconveniences. Land use planning as a decision-making tool creates an enabling environment for sustainable development of land resources which meets people’s needs and demands that can be ensured by effective governance system.