Chittagong Bureau :
Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain said monsoon coming very shortly and by this time all illegally occupied land of khals (canals) must be recovered from the unauthorized possessions immediately. .
The sets this time for smooth work of re-excavation of khals and renovations of culverts, bridge and roads in the city .
He directed the concerned officials while addressing the first meeting of monitoring committee held at CDA conference hall recently. .
He said either 20 or 16 khals according survey sheets, need to be recovered from the illegal occupants without any excuse. He said engineering core of Bangladesh Army will undertake the works of waterlogging projects of the city immediately.
He further said Prime Minister specially approved the Chittagong water logging project at a cost of Tk.500 crores.
CDA chairman Abdus Salam sought cooperation from the govt agencies to implement the project successfully.
CDA chairman sought cooperation from city corporation, WASA, Banar, PDB, WDB in connection. In the meeting among others, chief of the engineer core of Army Brig.Gen. Rezaul Karim, Secretary of Ministry of Housing Md. Shahidullah, Mlanaging Director of CWASA Engr. Fazlullah , Board member of Chittagong Port M.Zafar Alam, Chief Engineer of CCC Lt.col. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Executive Engineer of PDB Engr. Prabir Kumar Sen, and other concerned officials were present in the meeting.