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Ctg Landslide-prone Slums

40 shanties removed

Staff Correspondent, ctg
The Chittagong district administration yesterday began drives to permanently evict the illegal slum dwellings on the risky hill slopes in Lalkhan Bazar area in a bid to prevent casualties from landslides caused by heavy rainfall.
The evicted people of the slums would be shifted to six schools located in Lalkhan Bazar, Motijharna and Tiger Pass areas, said district administration. However, several evicted families said they had not been informed as to where they would be shifted.
A team of the district administration, led by Additional Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) SM Abdul Kader, conducted the drive at Tankir Pahar and Motijharna in Lalkhan Bazar area and demolished 40 shanties built on hill slopes.
Local sources said Jafar, a staff of Chittagong Wasa, his brother Bashar, and one Nasir developed the slums there and rented them out to low-income people.
The drive started at 10:00am with
the help of law enforcers. The dwellers were seen to leave the slums with their household furniture and necessaries.
Some local youths, however, started an altercation with the law enforcers and tried to obstruct the drive at around 12:30pm.
"They (district administration) have not issued any prior notice to evict our houses," said Md Osman, a mason who lived in a slum at Tankir Pahar. He also added that the authorities had locked their houses four days back and asked them to leave the slums and return after the incessant rains had stopped.
"But they are now smashing our homes. Where will we go with our children now?" said another slum dweller, Parvin Begum, a garment worker.
Contacted, SM Abdul Kader said they were permanently removing the houses from the hill slopes and the evicted people have no chance to return to these slums.
"The district administration is shifting the evicted people to six schools on a temporary basis, but many of them do not want to live there", he said, adding that the problem would not be mitigated unless the government sets up permanent rehabilitation for these people.
Landslides killed 127 people in the city in 2007, 17 people in 2011, and 28 people in 2012.
The Divisional Hill Management Committee has identified 30 hills in Chittagong as risky, where people are living. Among these, a total of 666 families are living on 11 risky hills in the city.
The families would be evicted permanently step by step, said Abdul Kader.