Bandarban Correspondent: A team of 35 people from the Survey Department will start survey work today Friday (25 November) to determine the highest mountain peak in the country. They will measure the hills of Ruma and Thanchi upazilas of Bandarban district for 40 days and determine the highest mountain peak.
Whether the country’s highest peak is Tajingdong or Saka Haphong, the survey will also end that embarrassment. The long-standing demand of domestic and foreign tourists on the mountain—not Tajingdong, but Saka Haphong or Madak Tong—is the country’s highest mountain peak. To resolve this controversy, the survey department has decided to determine the highest mountain peak in the country. Ershadul Haque Mondal, Deputy Assistant Superintendent of Survey Directorate will lead this team.
Deputy Commissioner Yachmin Parveen Tibriji said that most of the highest mountains in the country are located in Ruma and Thanchi upazilas of Bandarban. But according to official calculations, Tajingdong is the highest mountain in the country. Besides, sometimes Keokradong, Tajingdong and sometimes Saka Haphong or Madak Tong are claimed as the highest peaks privately. In this situation, it is necessary to officially measure the mountains and prepare a gazette to determine the peak or peak of the highest mountain in the country. For this reason, he sent a letter to the Surveyor General of the Survey Directorate on May 23. In view of that letter, steps have been taken to conduct the survey from the Directorate of Survey.
