Sector 10

Sector 10 (Bengali: ১০ নং সেক্টর) is an area and residential sector in Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.^[1] It is the largest administrative sector in the neighbourhood with more than 3000 plots.^[2]

Sector 10 ১০ নং সেক্টর
Sector
Road 1, Sector 10
Nickname:  No. 10
Coordinates: 23.8858181°N 90.3895417°E / 23.8858181; 90.3895417
Country	Bangladesh
City	Dhaka
Neighbourhood	Uttara
Established	1990
Founded by	Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha
Government
• Type	City Corporation
• Body	Dhaka North

It was developed as a planned community and its plots were leased for residents in 1990.^[3] All the plots in this sector planned by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha were transferred to the leaseholders in 1997.^[4] As of 2016, it was facing the issue of shortage of water supply to its residences.^[5] Most of its streets are in a state of disrepair and have become almost unusable.^[3] There is a central mosque in the sector which was the reason of a controversy in 2019 after the mosque authority restricted the mosque for children.^[6] As of 2022, even though it is a residential community, its plots are used for commercial purposes which is illegal.^[4] In 2023, local residents formed a human chain in protest against the attempt to rebuild a newly demolished dumping station in the area.^[7]