Dhaka may reach 10M by 2000
NZPA-Reuter Dhaka An influx of rural people seeking jobs or uprooted by natural calamities could turn the Bangladesh capital into the world’s fourth most populous city by the turn of the century. Dhaka’s population would reach 10 million by 2000 from the current four million, they told a seminar organised by the United Nations Children’s Fund.
Dhaka would house only slightly fewer people than Shanghai, Tokyo and Calcutta by then.
Professor Nazrul Islam, director of Dhaka Univer-
sity’s Centre for Urban Studies, said a third of Dhaka’s residents now lived in 1500 slums.
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