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Go after rail land grabbers Interim boss spurs ministry

Staff Correspondent
Communications and Railways Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday directed top ministry officials to take stern action against the railway land grabbers and also those who pilfer its properties like fuel and iron.
Thousands of acres of railway lands have been occupied by some influential people across the country, he said, adding that the land must be taken back at any cost.
The minister yesterday directed the Railway Secretary Fazle Elahi and Railway Director General Abu Taher to form committees to find out the culprits and take punitive action against them.
“As long as I'm here, [in the railway ministry] I won't tolerate any misdeed and malpractice. I'll talk to the
prime minister about these malpractices and seek her guidelines to recover the grabbed land and stop ill practices in the railway," he told them at his secretariat office.
Obaidul was made communications minister in December last year after Syed Abul Hossain's removal from the ministry in the wake of graft allegation against the latter. Last week, Obaidul was temporarily given additional charges of the railway ministry after
Suranjit Sengupta stepped down as rail minister amid the railwaygate scandal.
"I have specific information of fuel and iron being sold from Pahartali. Find out those who are selling the diesel of Tk 61 at Tk 25 a litre from Pahartali workshop in Chittagong and take punitive action against them,” he told the secretary and the DG.
Later, the minister toldThe Daily Star at his office, “I'll go for action against the grabbers no matter who they are."
In the last few years, a number of moves to recover
railway land failed in the face of intervention by some influential quarters. In some cases, the railway had been able to evict the grabbers but the land was grabbed soon again.
In another development, the railway ministry has decided not to cancel the recruitment of 1,400 people, who got jobs in the railway over the last few months.
“If we cancel the recruitment, they will go to the court against the step,” said a senior official of the railwayministry.
The fresh recruitment of
5,000 people will also gc ahead, he added.
Last year, the rail authorities planned to recruit 7,20( class-Ill and class-I\ employees. Of them, some 1,400 have already beer recruited.
The recruitment procest was suspended following the recovery of Tk 70 lakf from the microbus of formei rail minister Suranjii Sengupta's aide Omai Faruq.
The money is said to bt part of the bribe taken frorr railway job seekers.