 The government of Bangladesh nationalized the orphanage on 2 January 2008.Before the nationalization some land of the orphanage was sold in 2003 and corruption in management remains a major problem.On 17 September 2015 Bangladesh High Court ordered Concord group to hand over an 18-storey building in Azimpur to Salimullah Orphanage, that the court ruled was illegally built on land owned by the orphanage.