A total of 155.09 acres of land, which are belonging to Bangladesh Forest Industries Development Corporation (BFIDC), have been recovered from illegal occupation.
A ministry press release on Wednesday said that as per the special
directives of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda
Rizwana Hasan the lands were recovered from the occupiers.
BFIDC Chairman Md Nasir Uddin Ahmed informed that these lands were recovered with the assistance of different law enforcement agencies and such land recovery drives will continue.
Efforts are currently underway to establish rubber plantations on the recovered land, he said.
Of those, in the Chattogram zone: 16 acres of land were recovered from the Ramu Rubber Estate, 61 acres from the Rauzan Rubber Estate, 1.5 acres from the Haldia Rubber Estate, 0.1 acres from the Dantmara Rubber Estate, and 11 acres from the Rauzan-Rangunia Rubber Estate.
In Sylhet zone: 23.74 acres of land were recovered from the Rupaichhara Rubber Estate, the release added.
Earlier, 10 acres land were recovered from Dabua Rubber Estate, while 13 acres from Kanchannagar Rubber Estate, and 18.75 acres from Rangamatia Rubber Estate.
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