Chittagong District Administration, in a drive, has evicted 25 risky tin-shed houses from the slops of the hills in Chittagong city’s Lalkhan Bazar area to ward off possible landslide in the hills.
Assistant Commissioners and Executive Magistrates- Abu Hasan Siddique and Ruhul Amin of Chittagong District Administration led the drive at the “Tankir Pahar” area in Lalkhan Bazar at around 11am on Saturday.
Executive Magistrate Ruhul Amin said in four-hour drive, the district administration have demolished about 25 illegal and risky establishments at Tankir Pahar area which too vulnerable for the landslide in the hills during heavy monsoon.
Besides we have continued to make announcement amid loudspeakers asking to vacate the risky establishments in the hill’s slope as heavy rainfall continued, added Ruhul.
The district administration has arranged temporary residence and food for the families who used to live at the risky houses in the hills at Shahid Nagar Primary School in city’s Lalkhan Bazar, said the magistrate.
It is mentioned that mainly the lower-income people have used to live at the foothills or slopes of the hills in the city with the fear of possible landslides where a section of influential political leaders and locals have built the such kind of illegal structures pushing the life into the death-risk.
As the monsoon began in this year, the administration has started drives at the hilly areas in the city to evict the illegal structures in bid to save life and property.
According to the Chittagong DC office, about 666 families have been living at the slopes of 25 hills with much risk.
About 200 people were killed in last eight years by landslides during rainy season, sources said.