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Permanent truck stands in the offing

CITY CORRESPONDENT
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) is finalising the process of establishing three new permanent truck stands on the city's outskirts, while truck owners' demands to set up one in the Tejgaon industrial area go unheeded.
The government hopes the project will shift the Tejgaon truck stand from Satrasta, where it has stood illegally for over 60 years.
Although the owners and the workers of truck industry do not oppose the plan, they demanded the government keep a promise made long ago one which the government says it never made.
The union of truck owners said the communications minister in 2002 had assured them of building a permanent truck terminal behind Masjid Market Complex, near the existing stand at Satrasta.
“The grabbers are waiting for the opportunity to take control of the abandoned land near the railway line, which was supposed to be the permanent truck stand. That is why the government has now ignored its promise,” said M Rustom Ali Khan, general secretary, Bangladesh Truck Owners' Association.
The communications minister, however, says the government does not have any plans to establish any truck stands at the middle of the city. He also denied that they had promised to allot any land at Tejgaon.
“We have been planning to shift this truck stand from here for years to make this area free. If we allot them just beside the existing place, what is the point of shifting,” said Nazmul Huda, communications minister.
But Khan insists they had been given papers from the communications ministry with assurance to allot the land for the truck stand.
“We have asked the ministry to lease the land to us and we will pay for it. They don't need to give it free,” said Khan.
He also added that they would launch a big protest if their demands are not fulfilled.
The authority has already finalised two sites - one in Mohammadpur Beri Bandh and the other at Hasnabad at Keraniganj. The third truck stand will be set up on the bank of river Turag at Purbachal, where the authority is planning to shift the illegal truck stand of Tejgaon.
“We have already finalised two spots and asked the government to allot an estimated Tk 35 crore for land acquisition. We have two options at Purbachal and we will select one within a few days,” said a DCC official.
“The government is planning to establish the three stands under one project and we are working with that target,” he added.
The government itself would not construct or run the truck stands. The land of these three stands will be leased out to a private company.