The Excessive Court docket has halted the outdated authorities’s allocation of 9,467 acres of land in Sonadia Island of Moheshkhali, Cox’s Bazar to the Bangladesh Financial Zones Authority (BEZA) for the establishment of an eco-tourism park.
After hearing a writ petition filed by the Bangladesh Environmental Legal professionals Association (BELA), the bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Roy Chowdhury issued the declare on the present time (26 November).
Assistant Attorney Odd Mujahidul Islam Shaheen represented the boom all the plot by plot of the hearing.
The Cox’s Bazar district administration had given a lengthy-term lease of the land to BEZA for a token rate of Tk1,001.
In preserving with BELA, the allocation used to be supposed to facilitate the event of the nation’s finest eco-tourism park, which BEZA claims will enhance the tourism industry and contribute to the nationwide financial system.
Former BEZA govt chairman Paban Chowdhury previously noted that the park’s development can be supported by a grasp knowing designed by Mahindra Engineering, an Indian consultancy firm.
Despite the truth that the island used to be once opinion to be for a deep-sea port, plans shifted in direction of remodeling it into an financial zone by plot of eco-tourism initiatives. Nonetheless, as per the Atmosphere Conservation Act of 1995, any actions adversely impacting the island’s ecological balance are prohibited.
The allocation at such a nominal designate has raised concerns about ability violations of environmental authorized guidelines and the exclusion of local communities in development planning.
The vulnerable BEZA chief had earlier acknowledged that the supreme puny print of Sonadia’s lengthy-term tourism development would turn out to be particular once the grasp knowing used to be done.
