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Grabbers gobble up two-thirds vested property

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Grabbers gobbled up more than two thirds of vested property, as the government lost control over the lands as the custodian and its longtime dithering blocked antiencroachment efforts.
According to a report the land ministry submitted to a parliamentary standing committee yesterday, 4,45,726 acres of vested property out of 6,43,140 acres ended up in encroachment across the country.
The Awami League government
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in the final days of its tenure passed the Vested Property Return Act 2001 to hand vested property back to real owners, but the ruling BNP-led coalition has apparently moved away from anti-encroachment steps in line with the law.
The coalition government amending the law made deputy commissioners custodians of the property until it is returned to real owners, in a legal change that many said delayed the handover of lands.
The land ministry informed its parliamentary standing committee that it directed the district administrations and divisional commissioners to initiate steps to retrieve public lands from grabbers. It also suggested they take action in line with the recommendations of the high-powered secretary committee.
All districts in Chittagong and Rajshahi divisions moved to work, but the districts in Dhaka, Khulna,
Sylhet and Barisal did not report to the ministry.
The laws will be amended to retrieve grabbed lands, waterbodies and canals, sources quoted participants of the standing committee meeting as saying.
WATER LOGGING
The parliamentary body also discussed waterlogging in Dhaka city and formed a sub-committee to recover canals, public lands, vested property and waterbodies from encroachers.
The water flow is normal in 14 canals of 35, while others have lost their natural flow, the ministry said in its report. "It is urgent to retrieve the canals from encroachers to save the city from disaster," the report says.
"We have to save the city from waterlogging," Mahbubur Rahman, the committee chairman, told reporters after the meeting.