Ctg Landslides
Rehabilitation of 8,000 families in 6 months
Unb, Chittagong
The District Disaster and Relief Rehabilitation Committee yesterday decided to allocate khas lands in Hathazari upazila for the rehabilitation of some 8,000 families living at foothills in the port city.The committee at a meeting at the local Circuit House decided to provide three decimals of khas land to each of the families who lost their homesteads in the June 11 landslides that killed around 128 people. It said the government will construct houses for the families on the allocated khas lands. Chaired by Chittagong Divisional Commissioner M Mukhlesur Rahman, the meeting was attended by Relief and Disaster Management Secretary Dhiraj Malakar, Deputy Commissioner M Ashraf Shamim and representatives from the institutions involved with the relief and rehabilitation work at the district and divisional levels. Emerging from the meeting, Dhiraj said the family members of those who lost their lives in the June 11 landslides will get the first preference in the land allocation while those who lost their homes by the landslides will get the second preference and those who are vulnerable to landslides will get the third preference. He said the rehabilitation work would be completed by six months.
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