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People under house arrest under lock and key to prevent coronavirus infection. All offices-courts, businesses, schools-colleges are closed. People lose their income and eat khabi. In this situation, there is a rental exemption claim for those who live in rented houses in the capital Dhaka. Although several organizations, including the Tenants Council, have made this demand, neither the government nor the city corporation has said anything about it so far. The government has not made any decision to waive various taxes and service charges from owners.
Mayor of the North Dhaka City Corporation (DNCC), multiple tenants, landlords and tenant council, including experts in the field to speak on the matter, but no solution was found. In most cases, there is an acceptable argument from both the tenant and the landlord. Most tenants have no income at the time of the Corona epidemic. Many are seeking help. In this situation, it is absolutely impossible for them to pay the rent. On the other hand, there are many homeowners whose only source of income is rent. Many homeowners carry the burden of debt when building a home.
There are also exceptional cases. Many landlords in different parts of the capital have applied inhuman pressure on tenants to rent and still do. Meanwhile, there have been several inhumane incidents related to renting. The tenant has been evicted for being unable to pay the rent and there have been incidents of beatings. The police have had to intervene in several cases. Again, several owners are behaving humanely. Some have resigned. Many have said that it will work even if it is administered later.
A man named SM Emon lives in a rented house at 1/1, 30 / A Road, Rupnagar area, Mirpur. Khokon, the owner of the house, lives in another part of the elite area. The caretaker collects the rent from the house. Tenant Emon told Kaler Kanth: “At other times, the rent was delayed but said nothing; however, this time the caretaker of the house has notified that the rent must be paid within 1 date. Otherwise, you have than leaving the house. The caretaker came the next day and said that if he couldn’t collect the rent, his salary would be suspended. ‘
Mamunur Rashid lives in a flat in House No. 6/2, JN Saha Road, Old Dhaka. Last month’s rent could not be paid. The owner is pressing to rent. The tenant’s wife, Mukta, told Kaler Kanth: “We have asked the landlord to pay the rent because he did not receive his salary last month.” Then you have to pay the rent. Otherwise, leave the house.
Slum dwellers have more trouble paying rent. Even in this disaster, influential regulators are putting pressure on slum tenants. People who eat day after day have lost their jobs and are starving. Relief does not match correctly. They lost their way due to the pressure on him.
There is a poor neighborhood on Highway No. 6 in the Mohammadpur Housing Limited area. Some thugs in the area collect rent from the slums. Several slum dwellers said they had been told they would be evicted if they did not pay the rent. The middle-aged rickshaw shooter asked the slum dweller about it, saying, “I can’t pay the rent; if the name appears in the newspaper again, tomorrow it will break my arms and legs and drive me away. No one will come. to stop it.
Bahran Sultan Bahar, Chairman of the Tenants Council, said: “According to the information we have, 10 percent of the 2.5 million people living in Dhaka own a home. The remaining 90 percent are tenants. 70% of them They are middle class tenants. As such, the total number of tenants in Dhaka city is 2 crore 25 lakhs. Of these, the number of middle and low class tenants is crore 75 lakh. And in the current situation , this kind of tenants are in more crisis. We, on behalf of the Tenants Council, have requested a humanitarian exemption on the rental issue in Corona. The owners of the house in Ashulia have already collected half of the rental.
Yusuf Hossain Tuhin, a homeowner on Kalshi Road in the Mirpur-12 section, said: “Most homeowners in Dhaka manage their families for rent.” You must also pay the loan obtained during the construction of the house. Even after that, we are willing to accept an exemption or half of the rent for humanitarian reasons. In that case, it would be easier for homeowners to be human if the government sympathized with bank loan fees, utility bills, and city corporation fees.
Saiful Islam, a homeowner in the Mirpur Senpara area, said: ‘I have built a house with all the savings from my working life. The family lives renting a house. How can I go without rent?
DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam told Kaler Kanth: “No decision has yet been made about the rent exemption. The matter is very complex and profound. Tenants are struggling. Again, many landlords have to live with rent money, therefore all aspects must be considered and decided.
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