Sector 10 (Bengali: ১০ নং সেক্টর) is an area and residential sector in Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the largest administrative sector in the neighbourhood with more than 3000 plots. It was developed as a planned community and its plots were leased for residents in 1990. All the plots in this sector planned by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha were transferred to the leaseholders in 1997.
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As of 2016, it was facing the issue of shortage of water supply to its residences. Most of its streets are in a state of disrepair and have become almost unusable. 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. As of 2022, even though it is a residential community, its plots are used for commercial purposes which is illegal. In 2023, local residents formed a human chain in protest against the attempt to rebuild a newly demolished dumping station in the area.