Chattogram Bureau :
Judge Saiful Alam Chowdhury, Special Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA), with the help of the Bangladesh Army, launched eviction drive against the illegal occupants at Chaktai canal to implementing the ‘Mega Project’ to reduce the water logging in Chattogram.
CDA’s Executive Engineer and Project Director Ahmed Mainuddin told that around 8 structures were demolished in Chakatai canal on the first day.
About two and a half kilometers have been evicted from the illegal occupied.
CDA sources said that the length of the Chakatai canal is 5.881 km. According to BS Khatiyan, 8.137acres of land occupied by Illegal installations on the canal.
The CDA signed an agreement with the Bangladesh Army on April 7 to implement the mega project adopted by Chittagong City to reduce the water logging. Then the army’s engineering corps began raising the retaining wall, road construction and breaking down low bridges on both sides of the canal. Along the canal, dirt cleaning activities were also started.
According to the DPP, the cost of this mega project was estimated cost at Tk.5 thousand 616 Core 50 Lacks . The three-year project set a target of constructing a 100 km new drain, Construction of 176 Kilo Meter retaining wall, 85 Kilo Meter Road, including removing the canal soil in the initial phase of the project.
Apart from this, the Mega project will also have to construct a new 300 km new drain under the project, construction of 36 canals in the city by 2021, 42 Silt traps and other structure will be constructed.
