Belkuchi Correspondent:

Water Development Board (WDB) in a drive on Wednesday evicted about 162 illegal installations from Subarnasara to Belkuchi municipality on the Sirajganj-Enayetpur regional road in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj district.

The installations, which were evicted, included shops and homes.

During the drive, Mokhlesur Rahman, Executive Engineer of WDB in Sirajganj, Sub-Divisional Engineer (SDE) Md Parvez, members of RAB and police were also present.

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SDE Md Parvez said, WDB earlier served notice to remove all illegal installations from its land. The office also published the notice through loud speaker to inform the matter to all. After a certain period of the notice, we have conducted the drive and demolished some installations by bulldozer.

Executive Engineer Mokhlesur Rahman said, “The drive was conducted with the aim to make the government land free from grabbers as the road expansion and development works will be started soon.”