More than 500 acres of land of Housing and Public Works Department (PWD) have been illegally occupied by some vested quarters.
Replying to a query, Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain yesterday told the parliament that 503.29 acres of land under Housing and Public Works Department were illegally occupied.
He said the ministry could not recover the grabbed land as cases are pending with courts but the legal process is going on to recover the land.
The minister also said the illegally grabbed land will be recovered gradually and will be brought under government’s control. The minister said currently there are 6,406 abandoned houses in the Dhaka.
He also said as per circular of the ministry, the abandoned houses are allocated for families of martyrs and wounded freedom fighters and there is no provision to allocate those houses to anyone else.
