The Rajuk deviated from its role of promoting development plans and monitoring their implementation, said a press release yesterday.
Instead of playing the role, the city development authority was engaged in implementing development works.
The environmental activists came up with the observation at a human chain organised by pro-liberation organisations including social, political, cultural and environmental groups in front of the National Press Club yesterday, said a press release of Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Save the Environment Movement).
The speakers said the Rajuk began an eviction drive to demolish the Zinda Park, a natural wonder, located at Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj, is underways as the organisation took the initiative to establish a housing project ‘Purbachal Town’ by destroying the park.
Many people have lost their homes and became poor. More than 10,000 trees of 250 species were planted there and many people were earning money through maintenance of the park.
