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Gas, power cut to illegal dwellers at hillsides
Chittagong Bureau :
The Chittagong district administration is on high alert for probable landslide as raining is continuing for the consecutive third day due to the current depression at the Bay of Bengal.
The landslide might occur at the hills of Chittagong any time during the raining.
Of late, the district administration is taking action against the illegal dwellers on the hill slopes in the port city. A mobile court has been conducted at Bayazid Bostami and Moti Jhorna areas and cut the power, gas and water connections to several hundred families.
Sources said the executive magistrate and assistant commissioner (AC) of Chittagong District Administration of Chittagong Asia Khatoon conducted the mobile court at Moti Jhorna area and AC and executive magistrate Sheikh Jobaier Ahamed conducted the other mobile court at Bayazid Bostami area from 11am to 4pm yesterday.
Asia Khatoon has said the administration has cut the utility connections since those were illegal.
It is illegal to construct a building or house on the government land of the hills but vested quarters have constructed buildings and houses there flouting the law and hundreds of families are living illegally there.
The district administration will disconnect all the utility services to the illegal dwellers and later will evict them finally,” she added. Landslide takes place in Chittagong almost every year. Illegal hill cutting is held as the main reason for this recurrent landslide. Defying the law and challenging the government, some miscreants have cut most of the hills of Chittagong in the last several years. The areas suffering most from unabated hill cutting are Khulshi, Panchlaish, Sholoshahar, Bayazid Bostami, Foy’s Lake, Lalkhan Bazar, Oxygen Intersection and Polytechnic area, sources said.
It may be mentioned that the Hills Management and Rehabilitation Committee of Chittagong has identified a total of 30 risky hills where more than 50 thousand people are living at hillsides in Chittagong in high risk of lives due to landslide.
The authorities concerned had decided to evict the illegal establishments and shift all illegal dwellers of hillsides from May 10 last. The 16th meeting of the Hills Management and Rehabilitation Committee of Chittagong held at the office of the Divisional Commissioner of Chittagong on May 8 last has taken decision to start the eviction from May 10.
Chittagong Divisional Commissioner Ruhul Amin presided over the meeting. Among others, Director of Department of Environment (DoE), Chittagong Masud Karim and representatives of Chittagong City Corporation, Chittagong Development Authority (CDA), Chittagong WASA, Fire Service and Civil Defense and Army attended the meeting.
The meeting also decided that primarily people living in 30 hills, most vulnerable for living during the rainy season, of the port city would be shifted from those hills to safer places before the rainy season commences and gradually they will be rehabilitated at the Khas lands of Chittagong district administration adjacent to the city areas. More than 50 thousand people are living along the 30 risky hills in high risk.
The said hills are: CRB Hill, Tigerpass Hill, Lalkhan Bazar Hill, Mojaffarnagar Hill, Kattoli to Sitakunda hills, Salimpur Bastuhara Hill, Probortok Hill, Gol Pahar Hill, Ispahani Hill, Foresty Research Institute Hill, Joy Pahar Hill, Chatteshewri Hills, Motijhorna Hill, Batali Hill, Railway Emplyees Girls High School adjoining Hill, Foy’s Lake Hill, Jalabad Hill, Garibullah Shaha Majar Hill, Baitul Aman Housing Society Hill, Cheragi Pahar Hill, Chittagong City Corporation Hill, DoE office Hill, A K Khan Hill, Chittagong University Hills, Kobillyo Dham Biswa Colony Hill, Miar Pahar, Chanmari Road Hills.
The Chittagong district administration is on high alert for probable landslide as raining is continuing for the consecutive third day due to the current depression at the Bay of Bengal.
The landslide might occur at the hills of Chittagong any time during the raining.
Of late, the district administration is taking action against the illegal dwellers on the hill slopes in the port city. A mobile court has been conducted at Bayazid Bostami and Moti Jhorna areas and cut the power, gas and water connections to several hundred families.
Sources said the executive magistrate and assistant commissioner (AC) of Chittagong District Administration of Chittagong Asia Khatoon conducted the mobile court at Moti Jhorna area and AC and executive magistrate Sheikh Jobaier Ahamed conducted the other mobile court at Bayazid Bostami area from 11am to 4pm yesterday.
Asia Khatoon has said the administration has cut the utility connections since those were illegal.
It is illegal to construct a building or house on the government land of the hills but vested quarters have constructed buildings and houses there flouting the law and hundreds of families are living illegally there.
The district administration will disconnect all the utility services to the illegal dwellers and later will evict them finally,” she added. Landslide takes place in Chittagong almost every year. Illegal hill cutting is held as the main reason for this recurrent landslide. Defying the law and challenging the government, some miscreants have cut most of the hills of Chittagong in the last several years. The areas suffering most from unabated hill cutting are Khulshi, Panchlaish, Sholoshahar, Bayazid Bostami, Foy’s Lake, Lalkhan Bazar, Oxygen Intersection and Polytechnic area, sources said.
It may be mentioned that the Hills Management and Rehabilitation Committee of Chittagong has identified a total of 30 risky hills where more than 50 thousand people are living at hillsides in Chittagong in high risk of lives due to landslide.
The authorities concerned had decided to evict the illegal establishments and shift all illegal dwellers of hillsides from May 10 last. The 16th meeting of the Hills Management and Rehabilitation Committee of Chittagong held at the office of the Divisional Commissioner of Chittagong on May 8 last has taken decision to start the eviction from May 10.
Chittagong Divisional Commissioner Ruhul Amin presided over the meeting. Among others, Director of Department of Environment (DoE), Chittagong Masud Karim and representatives of Chittagong City Corporation, Chittagong Development Authority (CDA), Chittagong WASA, Fire Service and Civil Defense and Army attended the meeting.
The meeting also decided that primarily people living in 30 hills, most vulnerable for living during the rainy season, of the port city would be shifted from those hills to safer places before the rainy season commences and gradually they will be rehabilitated at the Khas lands of Chittagong district administration adjacent to the city areas. More than 50 thousand people are living along the 30 risky hills in high risk.
The said hills are: CRB Hill, Tigerpass Hill, Lalkhan Bazar Hill, Mojaffarnagar Hill, Kattoli to Sitakunda hills, Salimpur Bastuhara Hill, Probortok Hill, Gol Pahar Hill, Ispahani Hill, Foresty Research Institute Hill, Joy Pahar Hill, Chatteshewri Hills, Motijhorna Hill, Batali Hill, Railway Emplyees Girls High School adjoining Hill, Foy’s Lake Hill, Jalabad Hill, Garibullah Shaha Majar Hill, Baitul Aman Housing Society Hill, Cheragi Pahar Hill, Chittagong City Corporation Hill, DoE office Hill, A K Khan Hill, Chittagong University Hills, Kobillyo Dham Biswa Colony Hill, Miar Pahar, Chanmari Road Hills.
