A parliamentary standing committee on Tuesday constituted a five-member probe body to recover lands belonging
to Dhaka Nawab and Bhawal Estates from the grabbers.
Headed by the panel chairman AKM Mojammel Huq, the body has been entrusted to submit a report after on spot visits to the lands belonging to the two estates.
The standing committee on land ministry at its 25th meeting also asked the government to recover from the grabbers land and other properties of the two estates, which should have been with the court of wards.
The ministry officials presented a report on the current status of the properties and lands belonging to the two estates.
According to the report 260 acres of land in Dhaka city and 1600 acres of land at Savar belonging to the Dhaka Nawab Estate are under illegal occupation of grabbers.
It said the court of wards control on only 272 acres out of 30,420 acres of land belonging to the Bhawal Estate.
It said that industries and households had been built on the occupied lands.
Besides, it said, roads and public welfare
institutions had been built on a large portion of the lands.
The committee asked the ministry to prepare a database of government lands under occupation of grabbers and to what extent they were recovered from illegal occupants.
It also asked the ministry to take action to recover the lands after the database was prepared.
It discussed the progress of handing over to the state treasury the ornaments and relics belonging to the Nawab Estate deposited with banks.
The minister for land Rezaul Karim Hira, state minister M Mostafizur Rahman and the committee members Rowshan Ershad, AKM Hafizur Rahman, M Shahabuddin, M Abdul Hye, Matiur Rahman
and Ranajit Kumar Das attended the meeting chaired by AKM Mojammel Huq.
Source : New Age
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