Wrongly placed pillars on the banks of the River Turag for its demarcation will be removed, says the junior minister for land.
'The shipping ministry installed the pillars in accordance with the CS [Cadastral Survey] and SA [State Acquisition] maps. So there is a chance that their position won't match the flow of the rivers,' Mostafizur Rahman told the reporters on Friday after visiting the pillars in Gazipur.
'So we've decided to remove the misplaced pillars…They'll be installed as per the directives issued by the High Court,' he said.
On April 12, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority under the shipping ministry had started installation of pillars on the banks of the Turag, Buriganga, Sitalakkhya and Balu rivers to protect them.
The demarcation of the Turag was postponed on April 26 amid repeated objections by environmentalists, who claimed that installing pillars without considering the river's embankments and main course is a violation of the High Court directives.
The same day the national taskforce on the matter formed an 11-member committee, led by Mostafizur, to be clear about the High Court directives.
Source: New Age
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