Mehedi Hasan
Gated community can play a prudent role in preventing coronavirus. A gated community is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences. All amenities are available inside a gated community. In the case of lockdown, community residents do not have to go out of the gate to avail essential supplies or services.
Even if the country is locked down for six months or years, the gated community will not feel like a prisoner. Gated communities are a highly popular choice for residential purpose around the world. The concept is gaining popularity in the neighboring India and Pakistan, where they have already developed a dependable residential system. India's Aamby Valley City and Lasava City are prominent examples of highly sophisticated gated communities.
Bahria Town in Pakistan is the largest gated community in Asia. Since the onslaught of coronavirus, Bahria Town's management is continuously organizing awareness programs for the safety of its residents and employees to protect them from coronavirus. Also they have integrated adequate security at their gate so that coronavirus does not enter the gate. Bahria Town Lahore continues to fumigate it’s all places including mosques regularly to ensure the safety of its residents to halt any chance of spreading. Similarly, Aamby Valley City and Lasava City have been able to protect the safety and health of their residents.
The gated community provides its residents with numerous opportunities including school, community club, corner shop, playground, jogging track, library, gymnasium, indoor games zone, bar BBQ zone, community space, health club, bank booth etc. So if no one comes out of this community, there will be no inconvenience and no bother. Rupayan has come up with the idea of gated community in Bangladesh following the gated community model of the developed world.
The country's first mega-gated community Rupayan City Uttara intersects 300 feet wide Sonargaon Highway Road, adjacent to Airport. The world-class premium mega-gated community Rupayan city Uttara , is taking shape with thousands of staff’s hard work. In this project of four phases, each phase has a separate gate. That is why it is easy to take preventive measures to ensure safety and health for its citizens . Rupayan City Uttara is constructing their building on only 37 percent of the 140 Bigha land.
The remaining 63 percent of the land is on roads, playgrounds, jogging trucks, green gardens, gazebos and more. Residents of this gated community will never experience a captive life, whether locked down or in an emergency. Each phase has a separate playground. So in any case, the children can play here without any difficulty. Health-conscious, sick or senior citizen who is constantly on the move, in any case will remain active in this gated community. Rupayan City Uttara has seven kilometer jogging track, the largest in the country.
The gated community is also becoming popular in Bangladesh, like the developed world, considering the mental peace of the senior citizens, the physical development, safety and health security of future generations. So in the current situation in the real estate sector, most people are thinking of building gated community in the future. There is no doubt that gated community is better than the open community when it comes to safety and health protection.
Mehedi Hasan is a PR personality
