Staff Reporter :
The government on Tuesday allocated Taka 2,312 crore for building makeshift camps in Bhasanchar of Hatiya for Rohingya refugees, who fled persecution in Myanmar and taken shelter in Cox’s Bazar.
The approval was given at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), held at the Planning Commission, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
The project, Ashrayan-3, will be implemented by the Bangladesh Navy, Planning Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal said this while talking to reporters after the ECNEC meeting.
The Planning Minister said that the presence of Rohingyas is also creating social problem in the tourism town of Cox’s Bazar.
After their departure, the project will be used to accommodate the distressed people of the country, he said.
According to latest estimates, more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh after Myanmar Army’s crackdown in the Rakhine State.
In the latest update to this humanitarian crisis that global drew global condemnation, Bangladesh and Myanmar have struck a deal for the repatriation process of the refugees.
However, experts doubt the success of the deal, especially because its contents, remains undisclosed.
