Stern action to be taken against river encroachers

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City Desk :
State Minister for Shipping Khaled Mahmud Chowdhury said none will be spared if anybody re-occupies the lands recovered from the encroachers.
“The government will take tougher action against those, who will dare to grab river lands,” he said this on Monday while visiting the “Evicted Buriganga and Turag River Banks Protection Projects” and attending the inauguration programme of tree plantation at Birulia as the chief guest.
Khaled said the government has taken necessary initiative to recover the occupied lands of rivers to restore normal flow of water, which eventually helped to maintain the ecological balance in the environment He also lauded the role of the media to free the river banks from the encroachers. “We have been able to recover 90 percent river lands from the encroachers.
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