The government has to cancel land acquisition process for the proposed garment industrial park at Bausia in Munshiganj district as the Chinese investor failed to pay money for affected land owners by the stipulated time.
A fresh process has already got under way to acquire land and the investor will be asked to give money by June this year, officials said. The time to acquire 530.78 acres of land for the garment palli (village) project ended in the last week of December 2014.
“We have already started a new process of land acquisition at Bausia in Munshiganj,” said Munshiganj Deputy Commissioner Md Safiul Hasan Badul.
An inter-ministerial meeting at the commerce ministry office decided on Sunday to ask the Oriental International Holding (OIH) Limited to hand over fund within June 7 this year.
The meeting was presided over by additional commerce secretary Shawkat Ali Waris.
He said the government would complete construction of the proposed Garment Industrial Park in three years time and the fresh new process for land acquisition won’t be a problem.
The proposed garment palli is a OIH-BGMEA joint venture project.
After construction of the park, a total of 10,000 people will get jobs there, said Munshiganj DC adding that there will be no possibility of disasters like Rana Plaza collapse.
According to the proposal, the garment industrial village will have plots with infrastructural facilities, utility services, medical facilities, central effluent treatment plants, day-care centres, roads, drainage facilities, waste-dumping yards, fire-fighting equipment, banks, insurance offices and IT (information technology) parks.
This will be a unique model for the apparel sector meeting all compliance issues like workplace environment, health and fire safety, said the people concerned.
According to commerce ministry sources, the government felt the necessity of setting up a garment palli on 530 acres of land at Bausia at a cost of Tk770 crore.
The RMG factories, built particularly in an unplanned way in the capital, will be relocated at the proposed garment palli.
