Evicting Meghna Grabbers: BIWTA drive stops halfway

Halfway into an eviction drive at Char Betagi in Munshiganj’s Gazaria yesterday, the BIWTA withdrew as a curious drama unfolded over the legal status of two slipways built by a dockyard on the Meghna’s foreshore. A team of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) officials, including its chairman Commodore M Mahbub-ul Islam, went to the private dockyard of Khan Brothers Slipways and Engineering Works in Hossendi for a much-awaited eviction drive.