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River land leased out for sand trading

N'ganj district admin now seeks scrapping of Buriganga lease given 17years ago

Tawfique Ali
The Narayanganj district administration had anomalously leased out a half-acre area of the Buriganga to an individual at Fatullah, leading to massive earth-filling.
Sand trading is now going on there in full swing.
The land, well into the river's foreshore, was handed over to one Alauddin for Tk 7.13 lakh in 1994.
The district administration had made a Charcha Dag, an ownership document, for the handover.
Foreshore is the soil lying between the low-water mark during dry season and the high-water mark during monsoon.
The lease was done neither as per the Cadastral Survey (CS) nor the Revised Survey (RS), two widely-accepted land ownership records.
Shamsur Rahman, deputy com-
missioner (DC) of Narayanganj, said: "The [then] district administration leased the land anomalously. We’ve written to the land ministry to cancel it.”
He added that land lease on the basis of Charcha Dag was in practice until late 1980s.
Alauddin was not available for comments due to illness while his representative Solaiman could not be contacted over the phone despite repeated attempts.
According to a report prepared by the DC office in February this year, Alauddin has encroached upon 45 feet into the river's waterline by earth-filling.
The earth-filling stretches far into the last remaining flow of the river along the Fatullah terminal pontoon of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) byDhaka-Narayanganj road.
Mahbubul Alam, director (port) of BIWTA, said the entire area belongs to the Buriganga.
In April 2008, Alauddin obtained a three-month injunction from the High Court against eviction.
Officials of BIWTA, which is implementing a five-km walkway from Shyampur to Fatullah along the river, said Alauddin's men together with police stopped the construction early this month.
Police, however, let the officials resume the construction on April 10, said Shajidur Rahman, executive engineer of BIWTA.
"We faced similar obstructions from a factory but it has agreed to give up the river land under its occupation," said Shajidur, also the project director.
The walkway ispartofaTk 35-crore project taken up in 2006 to free the Buriganga bank from encroachment, develop port facilities and build jetties.