Stop constructions on arable lands

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country's land needs to be used and its management system should be maintained in a planned way considering Bangladesh's geographical area and huge population.
She was addressing the high officials of the Ministry of Land and its associate bodies during her visit to the ministry at the Secretariat.
Hasina directed the authorities concerned so that no one could set up factories or buildings here and there occupying arable lands.
She also asked the ministry to cooperate in formulating the upazila master plan through their surveys keeping aside lands for agriculture, rivers, beels, water bodies alongside keeping land for factories, especially those for SMEs to spur economic growth.
Acknowledging the fact that the country's farmland is shrinking day by day, Hasina directed the ministry to ensure keeping water bodies while giving any approval for using land, carefully using land so that the rivers, canals, water bodies, ponds were not filled.
Making the mention of the land boundary agreement, Hasina hoped that India would soon ratify the deal with Bangladesh through passing a constitutional bill.