Own Correspondent: The Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has conducted an eviction drive in the Latifpur area of Sitakunda upazila. Shops along the Dhaka-Chittagong highway have been evacuated since the morning of February 13 (Tuesday).
Special Metropolitan Magistrate of CDA (Joint District and Sessions Judge) Begum Tahmina Afroz Chowdhury in the operation led by CDA Executive Engineer (Project Officer) Mohammad Osman. The officers and employees of the concerned departments of CDA were present in the day-long operation.
Begum Tahmina Afroz Chowdhury started the evacuation operation with three platoons of police. CDA demolished hundreds of illegally occupied shops along the Dhaka-Chittagong highway. 72 khata of CDA land have been recovered in this operation. The land has been rescued and cordoned off. Security deployed by CDA has been deployed at the occupied site.
Mohammad Osman, executive engineer of CDA’s project branch, said, “Before this, initiatives were taken three times to rescue this land. The political climate is no longer ripe for elections. Now, after the election, the police have been found, so I have embarked on this campaign. As a result of this operation, the land that had been vacant for a long time was recovered. CDA has benefited a lot from this.
During the operation, the small traders of Latifpur said that if we had been given notice earlier, we would have removed the goods much earlier. We suffered a lot due to the sudden eviction. Ramadan is coming, and now we can’t think of how to go with our family.
