Bashundhara Residential Area

Bashundhara Residential Area
Private Suburb
Country	Bangladesh
Time zone	BST (UTC+6)

Bashundhara Residential Area (Bengali: বাড্ডা) is a Private residential area of Badda Thana in Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.^[1][2] It is owned and operated by Bashundhara Group. The Project was started in the 1980s.^[3] In 2011 portions of the housing project was declared illegal as they were considerable flood flow zones of Dhaka. In 2014 a cabinet committee changed the Dhaka detailed plan to make the project legal.^[4] The project was built on area made by filling low-lying marshland and flood flow zones.^[5] The project has sold over 10,000 residential plots as of 2005.^[6]

Commercial

• Grameenphone- the headquarters of the company are located in the area.^[7]
• Apollo Hospital Dhaka.^[8]
• Bashundhara Group headquarters are located here.^[9]
• Bangladesh Pratidin- the highest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh.^[10]

Education

• Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)^[11]
• North South University.^[12]
• International School Dhaka.^[13]
• Ebenezer International School a Christian Korean School.^[14]

See also

• Upazilas of Bangladesh
• Districts of Bangladesh
• Divisions of Bangladesh

References

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14. "ebenezer internation school dhaka bangladesh". ebenezeris.com. Retrieved 14 October 2016.