Govt to build walkways excluding foreshores

The government would build walkways to protect Dhaka rivers after demarcating those excluding foreshore lands, and try to save only whatever is left of the rivers, said Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday.
The river grabbers are too many in numbers compared to the rivers savers which makes river protection a difficult task, he added.
The minister was briefing journalists after the 21st meeting of the national taskforce on river recovery in his secretariat office in the capital.
"We could not recover the rivers from the grip of the encroachers, as it is not possible to solve all the problems created over the decades," he said.
The proposed River Commission law will be placed before the next parliamentary session, he added.