Railway land
As a son of a railway employee, I have been witnessing the encroachment of railway land since my childhood. A vast area of railway all over Chittagong is now under the clutches of the greedy occupants. The range of occupants varies from poor slum dwellers and refugees to powerful bigwigs and government bodies. In my childhood it was a common sight for us to see houses and other establishments being bulldozed and overthrown in an attempt to recover railway land and re-encroachment of the land soon afterwards. Again, there were, and still are, certain establishments which belonged to the so-called big guns which had always been exempted. The railway is now almost crippled due the massive corruption on the part of its employees to high officials.
Along with my all other childhood friends, who are the offspring of railway employees, I strongly believe that just by freeing railway from extortion, it could be made the most profitable and beneficial sector of the country. I, therefore, urge the government to urgently take effective and impartial steps to free the railway from all sorts of corruption, including grabbing of its land.
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