Chattogram Development Authority

The Chattogram Development Authority is focused on coordinating with service agencies to address waterlogging and unplanned urbanization while managing the completion of delayed mega-infrastructure projects.

Chairman: Engineer Md Nurul Karim, a former Additional Chief Engineer of the Bangladesh Power Development Board and native of Fatikchari upazila, was appointed 2 September 2024 (official notification signed by Deputy Secretary Kaniz Fatima, Ministry of Public Administration) for a three-year term, replacing AL-affiliated Mohammad Yunus who had been appointed 24 April 2024 and removed after approximately four months following the August 2024 political transition. Staff count not published in any accessible primary source; ZoomInfo lists 51-200 employees, not sufficient for a sanctioned-post figure; set to null. Annual budget not disaggregated in public ADP or ECNEC documents found; set to null. Established_year 1959 is confirmed by the Chittagong Development Authority Ordinance, 1959 (East Pakistan Ordinance No. 7 of 1959) at bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-291.html. The admin_level is set to 'divisional' as CDA's jurisdiction is the Chattogram Metropolitan Area (CMA), a sub-national urban region rather than a national body. The Chittagong Metropolitan Master Plan 2020-2041 (Tk 33.32 crore, consultants Data Experts, Tiller, EGS) was scheduled for completion by June 2024; finalization and gazette notification not confirmed in sources available as of May 2026. The DAP (Detailed Area Plan) covers 12 Detailed Planning Zones (6 inside, 6 outside Chattogram City Corporation). The waterlogging project's implementing agency is the Bangladesh Army 34th Engineer Construction Brigade; CDA is the project owner. The Elevated Expressway project owner is CDA; inaugurated by Sheikh Hasina on 14 November 2023 but was incomplete at inauguration.