New airport plan sparks protests

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
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New airport plan sparks protests
Our Correspondent, Munshiganj

Several thousand people formed a human chain and barricaded Dhaka-Mawa highway at Hasara in Munshiganj for four hours yesterday demanding that the proposed Bangabandhu International Airport be shifted elsewhere.

The airport is to be built covering a vast area including agricultural and wetlands in three upazilas of Dhaka and Munshiganj.

Traffic movement on the highway remained suspended from 10:00am to 2:00pm due to the barricade, causing tailbacks and consequent sufferings to thousands.

The demonstrators vandalised several vehicles and set fire to an arch on the highway.

Agitated people from different areas of Dohar and Nawabganj upazilas in Dhaka and Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj gathered at Hasara and blocked the road. They formed an 8-kilometre long human chain from Shologhar to Nimtoli in Sreenagar.

The protesters carried placards demanding that the proposed airport be built in some other district.

Lakhs of people will become unemployed if the airport is constructed at the propossd site, they claimed.

Police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control. Traffic movement resumed after 2:00pm.

Later, Officer-in-Charge Shakhawat Hossain of Sreenagar Police Station said the situation is normal.

In a related development, a small number of people formed a human chain at Chhonbari in Sreenagar in support of building the proposed airport at its present site.

Meanwhile, Dhaka and Munshiganj district authorities have started the process of acquiring over 25,000 acres of land in Sreenagar, Nawabganj and Dohar for the airport.

Of these,10,895 acres are wetland in Sreenagar, 7,017 acres are in Nawabganj and 7,188 acres in Dohar.

 

[saleen_s7]

I posted a thread about the $7 billion awami is using to create a new airport and some one mentioned its not a bad investment as it will provide people with jobs in the certain area. It turns out, according to a few newspapers that its actually much worse than people losing jobs. I don't see the point of a new airport at the moment. There are much more important things to take care of.

 

[wild_fire1979]

I posted a thread about the $7 billion awami is using to create a new airport and some one mentioned its not a bad investment as it will provide people with jobs in the certain area. It turns out, according to a few newspapers that its actually much worse than people losing jobs. I don't see the point of a new airport at the moment. There are much more important things to take care of.

Now I am waiting for the India angle where somehow it will be"

A CIA+RAW+MOSSAD hatched conspiracy to construct an airport to destabilize BD

OR

A plan by India to land all its good on the newly constructed airport for FREE and then not pay any transit fee for the Billions of dollars of goods landing there

 

[monitor]

Our international airport handle 10 aircraft per hour where 60 aircraft per hour can be consider as normal capacity as a international airport . what will be the benefit of using 7 billion dollar for plighting a name and spoiling the area where huge paddy is produce every year. moreover the proposed land in 'areal bil' goes under water about 16 to 20 feet during rainy season so it have to be rise by sand by 16 feet .satalite image also shown that there are pit coal under the area so it cannot be consider as place where 300 to 400 ton air craft will land so the area can down to earth by the pressure. if a airport is really necessary then it can be consider other place around dhaka wher the mud is strong enough .before any construction economic benifit also need to consider as gow much job going to loose by the proposed airport and 'banglabandu city' and how much job opportunity it will create . more importantly do we really need airport or the capacity increasing in current airport will be enough for us it should consider fast rather then political benefit .