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Begunbari Canal

Rajuk demolishes 75 illegal structures

Staff Correspondent
The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday demolished about 75 illegal structures including site offices of the yet-to-bc-constructed Hilton Hotel in Begunbari canal on Tongi Diversion Road.
A Rajuk team led by Magistrate Emdadul Dastagir started tearing down the structures around 11:30am to implement the Hatirjheel-Begunbari Integrated Development Project. .
A least 50 workers and a bulldozer took part in the drive that
continued till 5:00pm.
About 10 structures at the construction site of Hilton Hotel, which lost its land allotment recently, were tom down, an official of Rajuk said.
We have pulled down illegal structures constructed on Bangladesh Railway land in Begunbari canal as the Railway handed over today about 9.8 acres of land to Rajuk out of its 20 acres of land in Begunbari-Hatirjhecl area," Dastagir said yesterday.
Ihe Rajuk team bulldozed about 65 other concrete and
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semi-concrete structures including 55 shops constructed on the Bagunbari canal.
He said all illegal structures on Hatirjheel and Begunbari canal will be demolished gradually.
The drive was conducted without giving any prior notice to the residents of the area.
"We did not get any prior notice about the drive... that is wiiy we had no time at all to move our goods," said Abul Hossain who has four shops there.
"It is our legal property and the drive left me emptied," he claimed.
Rajuk so far pulled down over 600 illegal structures in Hatirjheel-Begunbari area since March to implement the project.
On February 7, the government under the I k 1,473.59 crore project started building a road along the canal.
The Local Government Engineering Department (I.GED), Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Dhaka Wasa), Armed Forces Division alongside city development agencies are implementing the project.
The government and Japan Debt Cancellation Fund are jointly financing the project. The government has already allocated Tk 50 crore for the project in the current fiscal year, an official of Rajuk said.
Rajuk is to spend Tk 1,218.69 crore, LGED Tk 175 crore and Dhaka WasaTk 77.98 crore for their part in the project. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology will spend Tk 1.92 for conducting a survey there.