Sensible urban planning is critical to the healthy growth of cities. Unplanned growth leads a number of problems, create misery for urban dwellers and make remedying of those difficulties. Yet flawed urban planning is little better, or perhaps worse, than no urban planning at all. It is thus important, when taking on such an enormous task as the drafting of an Urban Area Plan for a Pourashava, to ensure that the plan considers well and likely conducives to good health and well-being of the urban dwellers.

During the year 1984 to 2003, Urban Development Directorate (UDD) prepare a series of Landuse/Master Plans for Upazila and Zila Shahars of Bangladesh as a part of decentralization effort of the government. Under that project, the Bakerganj Upazila Shahar was planned but the project area considers in the plan is far away from the planning area considers in the Pourashava Town Infrastructure Development Project.

The Pourashava seems too poor in urban services. With the development of physical condition of the Pourashava, substantial involvement needs for those services. Drinking water supply, sewerage and sanitation facilities and dumping of solid wastes emphasizes as primary consideration. Absence of solid waste dumping ground creates health hazards. Absence of covered drain and sewerage system creates sanitation problem. Those problems will remove through proper planning and design.