Chittagong Bureau :
Chittagong District Administration will launch eviction drives from yesterday against the unauthorized dwellings illegally set up on the hillocks and risky places in the city. The district administration in a meeting with the Chittagong Hill Management Committee came up with the decision in order to avert possible loss of lives and properties from landslides in the monsoon.
Chittagong Hill Management Committee told the meeting that it has already identified 30 hills on which the people of low income group are living in risky state.
District Administration sources said the eviction drives will start from Tuesday through disconnecting illegal connections of water, gas and electricity in those dwellings.
The meeting also decided to enlist the names of residents living on different hills in the city and different upazilas gradually in order to bring them under rehabilitation programmes.
Divisional Commissioner Ruhul Amin presided over the meeting while Nirbahi Officers of different Upazilas were present in it.
The district administration at the advent of the monsoon every year, takes different rehabilitation programmes to relocate the risky hill-dwellers but in spite of knowing the impending dangers, the people of low income group mostly the rickshaw pullers and day labourers erect their temporary structures and start living in those hills.
At least 180 persons were killed in different landslides in the city during last eight years, including 127 dead on June 11 of 2007.
CCC land recovered from illegal occupiers: The magistrates of CCC have conducted mobile courts at Bagmoniram area in the port city and evicted the illegal occupiers shops from the land owned by CCC on Monday.
CCC magistrate Sanjida Sharmin led the mobile court at Bagmoniram area in the port city and evicted the shops yesterday.
It may be mentioned that Mayor of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) A J M Nasir Uddin is rigid on clearing the sides of road in the port city and make the roads wider by giving these actual size.
Following the decision, he decided to evict all illegal establishments from both sides of roads in the port city.
So, the CCC has started the eviction drive again to evict the illegal establishments from both sides of roads in the city from last year.
Chittagong District Administration will launch eviction drives from yesterday against the unauthorized dwellings illegally set up on the hillocks and risky places in the city. The district administration in a meeting with the Chittagong Hill Management Committee came up with the decision in order to avert possible loss of lives and properties from landslides in the monsoon.
Chittagong Hill Management Committee told the meeting that it has already identified 30 hills on which the people of low income group are living in risky state.
District Administration sources said the eviction drives will start from Tuesday through disconnecting illegal connections of water, gas and electricity in those dwellings.
The meeting also decided to enlist the names of residents living on different hills in the city and different upazilas gradually in order to bring them under rehabilitation programmes.
Divisional Commissioner Ruhul Amin presided over the meeting while Nirbahi Officers of different Upazilas were present in it.
The district administration at the advent of the monsoon every year, takes different rehabilitation programmes to relocate the risky hill-dwellers but in spite of knowing the impending dangers, the people of low income group mostly the rickshaw pullers and day labourers erect their temporary structures and start living in those hills.
At least 180 persons were killed in different landslides in the city during last eight years, including 127 dead on June 11 of 2007.
CCC land recovered from illegal occupiers: The magistrates of CCC have conducted mobile courts at Bagmoniram area in the port city and evicted the illegal occupiers shops from the land owned by CCC on Monday.
CCC magistrate Sanjida Sharmin led the mobile court at Bagmoniram area in the port city and evicted the shops yesterday.
It may be mentioned that Mayor of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) A J M Nasir Uddin is rigid on clearing the sides of road in the port city and make the roads wider by giving these actual size.
Following the decision, he decided to evict all illegal establishments from both sides of roads in the port city.
So, the CCC has started the eviction drive again to evict the illegal establishments from both sides of roads in the city from last year.
