At least 84 shanties and 17 makeshift shops were demolished on the first day of the eviction drive launched by the Chittagong City Corporation on Tuesday to clear the embankments of two canals to free the city the from water-stagnation.
In the drive 45 shanties and 11 shops on the banks of Mirjakhal and 39 shanties and six shops on Kabir Shawdagor Khal in Bakalia were demolished.
The city corporation has been carrying out the drive to check recurrence of water stagnation causing sufferings to city dwellers in the monsoon.
Chittagong City Corporation magistrate Kazi Mohammad Abdur Rahman conducted the evection drives, officials said.
Talking to the news agency, Saleh Jahour, superintended engineer of the city corporation, said similar drive would be carried out to clear the canal embankments in the port city.
He said roads and water passages would be built on both sides of the embankments.
Source : New Age
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