Drive out from Kuril on the 300-foot road and the scale of Purbachal New Town announces itself before any house does. The road runs about 12.5 kilometres to Kanchan Bridge, wide, straight and far emptier than any main road inside Dhaka. On either side lie the sectors of RAJUK's planned township, between the Balu and Shitalakhya rivers, covering about 6,150 to 6,213 acres in 30 sectors. RAJUK counts 26,213 residential plots in the town, in sizes of 3, 5, 7.5 and 10 katha, held on 99-year leases, alongside a plan for about 62,000 apartments. The layout is the achievement so far. The town itself is still catching up with it.
That gap shows in the building figures. RAJUK figures reported in October 2025 counted 460 building plans approved, 90 buildings complete and 77 under construction. By July 2026, work was under way on just over 300 plots, according to Dhaka Post reporting cited in a recent Purbachal guide. Against more than 26,000 plots, that is a small share. A visitor driving the sector roads sees the pattern: stretches of paved road and numbered plots, a finished building here, a boundary wall there, and long quiet sections where nothing has been built yet. Purbachal, started in 1995, has had its deadline extended several times, with the last extended deadline ending in December 2024.
What works, and what does not yet
Most of the main roads are built and paved, and that is the town's strongest asset today. Access from Dhaka runs through Kuril and the flyover, and the 300-foot road itself carries buses, cars and rickshaws through the town. For a plot owner, road access is usually the first question, and in much of Purbachal it has an answer.
Utilities are partial, and buyers should hear that plainly. Power and water reach some areas, not all, with water reported to have reached Sectors 1 to 3 and part of Sector 4 first. There are no new piped gas connections, so households plan on LPG cylinders. Sewerage remains at the planning stage. No school, hospital or market was open in the town as of January 2026 reporting, and the recent guide's check in late October 2026 found the same position on those facilities. A family moving to Purbachal today lives with a commute for schooling, health care and daily shopping, even where the road outside the house is finished.
The metro is the longest-dated part of the picture. MRT Line 1's Purbachal route, with nine stations, carries a target date of 2033, and target dates for the line have slipped before. A buyer who prices a plot on the metro arriving on schedule is betting on a date that remains a target, not a finished service. The recent guide makes the same caution in its own terms: do not price a plot on the metro date.
Plots, flats and the buying checks
Plot sizes shape what can be built. A 3-katha plot and a 10-katha plot face different rules on floors and floor area, which depend on plot size and the width of the front road, so a buyer should confirm the figures for a specific plot with a RAJUK-enlisted architect before assuming a design. A gazette of 14 October 2026 gives 5-katha and larger plots extra floor area ratio, with a deadline attached, according to the recent guide: another reason to check the current rule for the plot in question, not a general summary.
On price, the only honest figures available to a reader are asking prices, not sale prices. A listing compilation dated August to October 2026 put the median asking price for 3-katha plots on its list at Tk 1.98 crore, with a range from Tk 1.45 crore to Tk 3.45 crore across 66 listed plots. Those are the asking prices of one agency's listings, not a record of completed sales, and prices vary sharply by sector, front road width and position relative to the 300-foot road. A plot fronting the main road asks far more than an inner plot, and south-facing plots ask a little more, according to the same compilation. Treat any single price quoted for "Purbachal" as a starting point for inquiry, not as a market rate.
Transfer rules changed in November 2025 for scheduled residential plots: no prior RAJUK permission is needed, with the buyer paying RAJUK 3 percent of the deed value at the sub-registry office, and with deed and mutation documents to be filed with the leasing authority within 90 days. Most plots still register at the Rupganj or Kaliganj sub-registry offices, since the decision to bring the whole area under Dhaka district had no gazette as of late October 2026. A buyer should find the exact sector, road and plot number in RAJUK's schedule gazettes, or ask RAJUK's Estate and Land office in writing where the plot cannot be found there.
Purbachal today suits a buyer who can read it for what it is: a large, well-roaded layout where living services are still thin, construction is scattered, and the town's institutions have yet to arrive. For a family that needs a school, a hospital and a market within walking distance this year, it is not that town yet. For a plot owner building slowly, or a household willing to commute while services fill in, the roads, the plot layout and the open space are already real. The corridor rewards a visit at different times of day, a check of water and power on the exact sector, and a price discussion grounded in asking listings for comparable plots. What it does not reward is assuming the finished town from the finished road.
