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RETRIEVE-RIVER-KHALID
Govt takes mega plan to retrieve rivers
DHAKA, July 8, 2019 (BSS) – State Minister for Water Resources Khalid
Mahmud Chowdhury today said the government has taken mega projects to
retrieve rivers across the country.
“We have taken mega plans to retrieve all the rivers of reverine Bangladesh
and we will start working on it,” he said.
Khalid, also the Organising Secretary of Awami League, said this as the
chief guest of a stipend and sports kit distribution programme among
successful students at Birala upazila parishad auditorium at Dinajpur, said a
press release.
He said all the rivers would be freed from illegal occupations.
Earlier, he inaugurated new buildings of five schools and a cluster
village at Bhandari union.
Upazila executing officer ABM Rawshan Kabir Presided over the programme
while upazila chairman AKM Mostafizur Rahman, additional police super Mahfuz-
Uzzaman Ashraf, acting AL president of the upazila M Abdul Latif and Birala
municipality Mayor Alhajj Shabujar Siddique Sagar spoke on the occasion.
BSS/PR/DH/RY/20:05 hrs