Occupiers promise to remove illegal structures : Karnaphuli river to back to its previous state

C T Online Desk: A team of the district administration visited the Karnaphuli river to clear the illegal structures. The occupiers have accepted the responsibility and promised to remove the illegal structures.

Chittagong District Administration Executive Magistrate and Assistant Commissioner (Land) Ghalib Chowdhury visited Karnaphuli Cold Storage Ghat on Wednesday. At this time, the ongoing river filling work of the ghat was stopped and it was ordered to be evacuated quickly.

Nazrul Islam, manager of Karnaphuli Shipbuilders, admitted to filling up part of the river and pledged to clear it out soon. Executive Magistrate Ghalib Chowdhury said that Chittagong District Commissioner Mohammad Mominur Rahman sir is directly supervising the matter of stopping the filling of the river and its evacuation. River encroachments and encroachments must be evicted. We visited these places. The occupants said that they will remove these structures very soon.