The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The landowners, who have lost their land for the Uttara Extension (Third Phase) Project, at a press conference in the city alleged that the Government had reneged from providing them alternative land or cash compensation.

Acting Chairman of Harirampur Union, Mojibur Rahman, one of the victims, told journalists at the Dhaka Reporters Unity yesterday that in the year 2000 RAJUK authority requisition 2,100 acres of land from the local landowners for the extension of the city with the promise that Government will return half of the requisition land after completion of the project.

At the press briefing, Ward Commissioner Mostafa Zaman, Aman Ullah Bhuiyan, Jainal Abedin Milon, Ismail, Lutfar Rahman. Suroz, Alak, Zamal Uddin Bhuiyan and 50 other people, who have lost their entire landed property, were present.

Mojibur alleged that the Government had completed most of the project and handed over more than 500 plots to other people, but not to the victims. According to the law the affected people gets priority in the allotment of land, he said.

They demanded immediate return of their land according to the Requisition Act.