Adviser on Water Resources Syeda Rizwana Hasan ordered to take strict measures to clear the encroachment of Arial Bill.

Advisers on Water Resources and Environment and Housing and Public Works visited Arial Bill on Monday (September 9). The Water Resources Adviser said these things while talking to journalists there.

She said that the land that has been occupied in the name of housing should be recovered. She directed the Deputy Commissioner to stop the extraction of soil by dredgers. She said that no land grabbers can enter the Arial Beel and filling of ponds should be stopped. She also directed to repair and re-excavate the canals of Beel and demolish the illegal brick kilns.

The Environment adviser said strict action would be taken against those who occupied the bill using political power. This bill, which runs through the four upazilas of Sreenagar, Sirajdikhan, Dohar and Nawabganj, will be freed from encroachment and will be given utmost importance to conservation.

Housing Adviser Adilur Rahman Khan also said strict action would be taken against encroachers. He warned that no housing should be allowed to be built on Beel's land and Beel must be protected from illegal land grabbers.

Earlier in the morning, the two Advisers of the government participated in the presentation and briefing related to Arial Beel at the Sreenagar Upazila Parishad and listened to the officials of various government institutions and the local people of various classes and professions.

Nazmul Ahsan, Secretary of Ministry of Water Resources, Director General of Environment Directorate, Director General of Bangladesh Water Development Board, Director General of Wetland and Water Development Board, Deputy Commissioner of Munshiganj, Superintendent of Police, civil society members and students were present in the view exchange meeting. 

The students of the Polytechnic Institute left the road blockade getting assurance of accepting all the six-point demands of the day-long protestors. They left the road at 6 pm and stayed inside the campus.

On Monday (September 9) afternoon, the Secretary of the Directorate of Technical Education Fariduddin Ahmed assured to accept the demand. The secretary is in discussion with the teachers. The full announcement will come soon.

It is to be noted that the students of Polytechnic Institute have blocked Tejgaon main road of the capital with 6-point demands, including making the diploma engineering course four years. As a result, traffic jams have occurred in Moghbazar, Tejgaon and Mohakhali areas of the capital.

In the six- point of students- Apart from this, the technical education board should be reformed so that no non-technical manpower can be employed in the management of the technical sector. The teacher crisis should be removed by amending the controversial recruitment rules of the Directorate of Technical Education and appointing technical manpower to all vacant posts. In order to increase the opportunities for higher education, some of the issues to ensure hundred percent seats in the four engineering colleges proposed for Diploma in Engineering students include.

Commenting that extortion has not stopped in market management, only gaps have been filled, Finance Advisor Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed said, the Interim government will strictly suppress extortion. He also said that initiatives have been taken in this regard.

The Finance Adviser said this in response to a question from journalists after a meeting with the delegation of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) at the Secretariat on Monday (September 9).

In response to a question about the fact that the country's inflation rate has decreased slightly in August, he said that it will take some time for the impact of the decrease in inflation to be felt in the market.

Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed said, UNDP will provide technical and expert support if needed in the economic sector reform. UNDP will also work with the Interim government on state reform. The institute will provide financial and technical support to the government.

Besides, he said that ongoing projects with UNDP will continue and will work with the current government on more new projects in the future.

The Finance Adviser said that more edible oil and rice brine will be imported to increase the supply in the country.

Interim government’s Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus said the main objective of his government is to improve the law and order situation. A lot of progress has already been achieved in this field.

On Monday (September 9), the ambassador of the Vatican appointed to Bangladesh, Kevin S. Randall said this when he went to meet the Chief Adviser.

The Chief Adviser said that the Interim government had implemented important reform programs in the first month after assuming office. Dr. Yunus sought the Vatican's support in implementing reform programs and providing humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya.

The Vatican ambassador said that an interfaith dialogue has been proposed between the delegation of the Interfaith Dialogue Department of the Vatican City and the Islamic scholars of Bangladesh.

He highlighted the need to increase humanitarian assistance to the more than 10 lakh Rohingya population living in various refugee camps in Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh.

Chief Adviser's Office of SDG Affairs Chief Coordinator (Senior Secretary) Lamia Morshed and Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kazi Russel Parvez were present during the meeting.