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City canals may get life back by March

TAWFIQUE ALI
The parliamentary standing committee on land ministr, has set a deadline for the recover)' of old canals in Dhaka from grabbers.
“Our target is to recover those canals by March 2010," committee Chairman AKM MozammelHaq toldThe Daily Star.
"We will frame either fresh laws or bring amendments to the existing ones, as they might prolong the process.” said Haq.
The parliamentary committee also decided to ask the deputy commissioners (DC) concerned to demarcate different rivers of the country by August.
Positions of the old canals will be identified on the basis ofCadastral Survey (CS), State Acquisition (SA) and
Revislonal Survey (RS) records, he added.
The parliamentary body at a meeting on May 17 instructed the director general (DG) of Directorate of Land Reform and Survey (DLRS) to identify and demarcate 13 canals criss-crossing Dhaka city by the end of July.
The DG on June 16 formed a joint committee comprised of representatives from Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa), Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) and Water Development Board.
Dhaka settlement officer and additional deputy commissioner (revenue) of Dhaka are also members of the committee.
Chandranath Basak, director (land records) of Directorate of Land Reform
and Survey (DLRS) headed the committee. The committee was given a threemonth time to identify and demarcate all the canals.
The committee held its first meeting on July 6. The deadline ends on September 16. The committee is working on a pantograph mapping to show the canals' original and present position, Basaksaid.
A high-powered committee, formed in 2004, prepared a list of illegal structures built on the city canals.
The Joint committee asked the additional deputy commissioner (revenue) of Dhaka to update the list with the help of assistant commissioners (land), Basak said.
According to the CS records, Dhaka
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had a total of 43 natural canals and 26 of them were handed over to Wasa for operation and maintenance to serve its sewerage purposes, said DLRS officials.
Only 13 of those canals can be traced now while the rest have been grabbed, said Wasa Managing Director Shahjahan Ali Mollah, adding that Wasa will re-excavate 13 canals with World Bank fund.
Noted urban expert Prof Nazrul Islam, presently chairman of University Grants Commission, said it is not possible, in reality, to retrieve all the old canals, as roads and buildings were built on many of them.
Some government organisations including DCC built roads, box-culverts other structures on a good number of those canals.
Joint Commission Chairman Mozammel Haq said, “There are no rules for selling canals, rivers and water bodies and if done so they are fake deals."
Any Khas land ownership records .made in connivance with the corrupt officials will be cancelled, he added.
"Once the canals are identified and demarcated, we will go for recovery drives," said Haq.