10 structures on Kalyanpur canal knocked down
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) with the help of district administration removed around ten semi-concrete structures yesterday as part of an ongoing eviction drive to free a stretch of city's Kalyanpur main canal.
They however spared three mosques, portions of which were built on the canal.
Ruhul Amin, executive engineer of Wasa, said they decided to spare those considering religious sentiment.
Alid Mainul Amin, executive magistrate of Dhaka district administration, said he asked the management committees to remove the illegal portions.
Manual demolition began from the canal near Kalyanpur Bridge behind Acme Laboratories with Mirpur Police Station and members of riot police maintaining law and order.
The team carried a similar drive at the same stretch of the canal last Monday and pulled down more than a dozen of such illegal structures.
Illegal structures occupied half a kilometre of the three kilometre long canal, said Ruhul.
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