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College erected overnight on Rajuk land at Badda

By Morshed Ali Khan
Some people at Badda. led by a local Awami League leader, occupied nearly three bighas of Rajuk land on Friday and built a two-unit tln-shed college overnight, fencing it with barbed wire.
They alleged that nearly 60 acres of land in the area were brought under a Rajuk scheme to rehabilitate some local people who lost their lands in the process of Rajuk s acquisition of land in different times. But instead of allocating the plots to the victims. Rajuk handed over more than four hundred plots to its employees, they alleged.
Osman Gani Khan, secretary. Gulshan thana Awami League, told The Daily Star that Rajuk already had provision for an educational Institution on the spot We built it because the people here desperately needed a college If Rajuk wants, we will reconstruct it according to their plan," he said.
Nasimul Hasan, a young man from the locality said the victims held several meetings with officials of Rajuk and the Works Ministry earlier in which they were assured that the plots would be allocated to the victims on priority basis. "We have lost trust in Rajuk because it has made us landless and then failed to keep Its promise to rehabilitate us," Hasan said.
"In the original layout plan for this area, there Is a school, a playground and a mosque. So before Rajuk turns those into plots we nave taken our own initiative to move the school here from another place," said Abdul Hai Talukdar, a local leader of the "Rajuk's eviction resistance committee". Hai added that the people were ready to move the school in accordance with the layout plan.
When contacted, a top official of Rajuk, requesting anonymity said that between 1961 and 1968 Rajuk had acquired a total of 2,760 acres of land in Badda, Banani and Baridhara areas for development. "But Rajuk could not retain Its development plans because the locals could not be evicted and eventually the Ka-tripakhya is now left with 1,066 acres In these areas," said the official adding that Rajuk had plans to allocate 600 out of 1,000 plots from the Badda area for the rehabilitation scheme.
The official however admitted
that the whole stretch of the 60 acres at the site was under the rehabilitation scheme. "But these people should have negotiated with us before taking law in their own hands," he said.
Another Rajuk Land and Administration official said they had filed a general diary with the Gulshan thana and moves were now underway to evict the occupiers. "We have just completed the land filling work at the site. We will eventually give some plots to the victims," he said.
On Friday last, several hundred people, led by Osman Gani Khan. Awami League secretary of Gulshan thana, moved into the site and built the college in a day. The L-shaped college has been built in two units with new corrugated tins on the eastern side of the Progoti Sharoni. hardly 100 yards from Badda police outpost under Gulshan thana. They also put up a signboard. Mahanagar College, Established: 1992. Local people said the school was shifted from Uttar Badda. When Rajuk field staff objected to the move, they were driven off by the angry focal people.
Rajuk sources said as soon as the news reached Rajuk office on Sunday, two days after the occupation, the employees who had benefited from the allocation started shouting slogans in the office. The newly-elected Employees Association of Rajuk has demanded immediate removal of the college and handing over the plots to the employees.