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Unplanned renovation to cause waste of several crores of taka

Say leaders of Chaktai Canal Action Committee

Staff Correspondent, Ctg
Chaktai Canal Excavation Action Committee at a press conference yesterday demanded renovation and reconstruction of the canal in a planned and coordinated fashion.
The leaders of the committee at the press conference at Chittagong Press Club alleged that unplanned excavation and renovanon of the canal would waste several crores
The rain-induced devastating landslide and inundation that claimed a total of 132 lives on lune 11 and October 16 last year was nothing but the result of unplanned renovation of Chaktai Khal and lack of maintenance of other canals, they observed.
They also alleged Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) took initiative for laying a 15-ft wide road
along Chaktai canal when the government following the June 11 disaster stopped construction of CCC housing projects levelling hills anti identified structures including those of CCC constructed illegally on drains.
They added that during the years 2002-2006. CCC made con crete-bed and erected a boundary on the land along the canal at the cost oUk 24 crore.
But. in the name of evicting the encroachers to restore land for a road beside the canal, CCC forcibly demolished many legal structures erected outside the boundary wall, whereas CCC kept its own illegal structures untouched, alleged the committee leaders.
Besides. CCC decided to construct the road some four feet above the ground level that would
block passage of rainwater and cause inundation and waterlogging during the downpour, they added.
The committee leaders also protested the CCC initiative for setting up sluice gates at the mouths of Chaktai canal and Mohesh canal.
Sluice gates on two canals keeping the rest canals of the city open would not help check the inundation, they said.
The leaders demanded representation of all the authorities concerned and that of the people living along the canals while making decision on canal dredging and renovation or taking measures to rid the city of inundation and waterlogging.
They demanded compensation for the structures demolished
illegally so far and stop unplanned construction of the road along the canal.
They also demanded investigation into the corruption practiced during the construction of concrete-sole and boundary wall of Chaktai canal.
Chaktai Canal Excavation Action Committee General Secretary Shahriar Khaled read out the written statement at the press conference while organisation Chairman and Gono Forum leader Advocate M Kafil Uddin, Jatiya Party leader Jahangir Alam, former ward commissioner Abu Zafar, Abul Mansur and Kutub Uddin replied to different queries.
A large number of people living along the Chaktai canal were also present at the press conference.