Rajuk moves to evict Gulshan Lake grabbers
Special Correspondent
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday forced the owner of a lakeside plot in Gulshan to remove the structure he had built by illegally extending the original plot, following a story published in The Daily Star. Rajuk officials also posted five of its uniformed security guards in front of the Plot-9 in Road-31 where several labourers were seen dismantling the tin-shed structure built on an earthen platform raised from the lake. The security guards were deployed in the area also to watch out for land grabbers who had been trying to fill up the lake in the dark of the night with earth and garbage being carried in by boats. Siddiqur Rahman, a Rajuk security official, said that it is getting impossible to stop the land grabbers with only eleven men in his squad covering a vast area. "Every night these small boats come from the Karail slum across the lake to fill it up and it is becoming harder for us to detect them," he added.
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Rajuk workers remove structures built by encroachers on the eastern bank of Gulshan Lake in Dhaka yesterday, following a report of The Daily Star on filling up of the lake with rubbish. PHOTO: STAR |
