600 landless protest eviction from khas lands in Kushtia

They were evicted after they lived there for over nine years, they claimed.

The district administration evicted 108 landless families from about 6.74 acres of khas land (RS No 440) from Kaya Bridgepara near the Gorai Bridge.

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They were evicted by the Kumarkhali upazila administration following an order by the Deputy Commissioner in a letter (No 100/111/2003), issued on June 25.

When contacted, the ADC (rev) told this correspondent that the government had decided to construct a housing project for the landless on the land.

But Rabindra Sangsad, a local NGO, which had helped the landless take shelter on the land nine years ago, claimed that the houses to be constructed would be allotted to ruling party men in the area.

The landess people appealed to the local administration time and again for their permanent settlement on the land, but to no effect.