Chittagong Bureau :
The hillslide and landslide are the regular phenomenon in the port city in every rainy season of the country.
With a view to resist the unwanted incidents of killings in hillpockets of the city, district administration evicted risky resided 150 families from Amin Colony under Baizid thana in city on Monday.
During eviction drive assistant commissioner of Land Abu Hasan siddique, Chandgaon AC Land Afzal Hossain and the Executive Magistrate Tamim Al Yameen were present.
Executive Magistrate sources said due heavy incessant rain for the last few days two incidents of killing occurred in the city on Satuday night last. Whereas the district authority requested al hillpocket dwellers to remove from the hill side.
Mentionable that two separated incidents hillslide occurred on that night at Amin colony area and Lalkhan Bazar area. Sources said in Amin Colony hillslide Arafat Hossain(12) Umme Salma(5) and Marikum(2) of same family were died.
Both the victims are the brothers and sisters, sourcws said. Beside3s Marium Begum(30) and his daughter Saraiya(2) and another Akhi(5) of same area were died with hillslide. Distridct administration sources said during last 8 years about 200 people were killed in different hill pockets areas of Chittagong.
But the concerned administration did not take any final solution to prevent such occurrences every year. Informed circles observed all the hill pocket dwellers should be rehabilitated properly with govt initiatives and the hillside areas should utilized as afforestation projects .
bdnews24.com adds: More than 100 people were killed in a massive landslide in Chittagong in 2007.
Since then, the local administration regularly evicts families living in the risky zones but they return once the drive slackens.
In the recent round, the district administration began the eviction drive on the second week of June but suspended it during the Ramadan.
Senior Assistant Commissioner Hossain said people living in the danger zone had various professions.
“They are not financially solvent but are not refugees either,” he said.
Hossain said some of the families had TVs and refrigerators.
“They can rent houses somewhere else but risk their lives for cheap accommodation,” he added.
The families, evicted during Monday’s daylong drive, have been temporarily relocated to the Amin Jute Mills School and Madrasa premises.
The district administration is providing them food.
The hillslide and landslide are the regular phenomenon in the port city in every rainy season of the country.
With a view to resist the unwanted incidents of killings in hillpockets of the city, district administration evicted risky resided 150 families from Amin Colony under Baizid thana in city on Monday.
During eviction drive assistant commissioner of Land Abu Hasan siddique, Chandgaon AC Land Afzal Hossain and the Executive Magistrate Tamim Al Yameen were present.
Executive Magistrate sources said due heavy incessant rain for the last few days two incidents of killing occurred in the city on Satuday night last. Whereas the district authority requested al hillpocket dwellers to remove from the hill side.
Mentionable that two separated incidents hillslide occurred on that night at Amin colony area and Lalkhan Bazar area. Sources said in Amin Colony hillslide Arafat Hossain(12) Umme Salma(5) and Marikum(2) of same family were died.
Both the victims are the brothers and sisters, sourcws said. Beside3s Marium Begum(30) and his daughter Saraiya(2) and another Akhi(5) of same area were died with hillslide. Distridct administration sources said during last 8 years about 200 people were killed in different hill pockets areas of Chittagong.
But the concerned administration did not take any final solution to prevent such occurrences every year. Informed circles observed all the hill pocket dwellers should be rehabilitated properly with govt initiatives and the hillside areas should utilized as afforestation projects .
bdnews24.com adds: More than 100 people were killed in a massive landslide in Chittagong in 2007.
Since then, the local administration regularly evicts families living in the risky zones but they return once the drive slackens.
In the recent round, the district administration began the eviction drive on the second week of June but suspended it during the Ramadan.
Senior Assistant Commissioner Hossain said people living in the danger zone had various professions.
“They are not financially solvent but are not refugees either,” he said.
Hossain said some of the families had TVs and refrigerators.
“They can rent houses somewhere else but risk their lives for cheap accommodation,” he added.
The families, evicted during Monday’s daylong drive, have been temporarily relocated to the Amin Jute Mills School and Madrasa premises.
The district administration is providing them food.
