‘No hospital in Ctg’s CRB’

People of Chattogram will not allow any hospital on  CRB (central railway building) premises, said Awami League praesidium member Mosharraf Hossain in a public rally yesterday.

He was speaking as chief guest in the rally organised by Nagarik Samaj, Chattogram, on the 483rd day of the movement to "save CRB".

"I took the initiative to collect the signatures of lawmakers and ministers from Chattogram in an application, which was submitted to the railways minister," said Mosharraf, also a lawmaker from Chattogram.

"The minister assured us that if the lawmakers and ministers from Chattogram do not want a hospital to be set up in CRB, the project would be shifted to another place," he said.

"We will also present our demand to the prime minister on December 4 rally scheduled to be held at Polo Ground in Chattogram," he added.

"The government would not let any project that goes against the emotions of locals to materialise. For that reason, I think, the hospital project will be shifted from CRB to another place," said Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud also spoke at the rally, with Nagarik Samaj Chattogram Chairman Prof Anupam Sen, also vice chancellor of Premier University, Chattogram, in the chair.