Rivers are important for Bangladesh as the Artery and Veins in a human body

Bangladesh is a riverine country. Rivers are important for Bangladesh as the Artery and Veins are important for a human body. Naturally, hundreds of rivers are flowing over the country. But we are not  effectively utilizing the beneficial sides of the rivers. The source of these rivers are basically the Himalayan mountains. The water vapors from the Bay of Bengal fly as clouds  and deposited as glaciers over the Himalayan mountains. During the monsoon rainfall starts and the rivers, beels, Haaors, and other low lands of the country are inundated with the rainwater. Sometimes flood occurs and marginally poor people suffers from the flood water. Occasionally, flush flood wipes out the rice crop from the farmers field. If everything goes well, people can harvest their golden rice crop from the field and they can feed their family well.

Now a days, rivers are occupied by the greedy river grabbers and land robbers of this country. For example, Buriganga river of Dhaka and other similar type of rivers have been occupied by the land grabbers and river robbers. They are occupying the rivers, establishing their right there by making falls documents. River grabbers are filling the occupied rivers with sands and selling them as plots to the different types of customers to build their houses and markets. The customers are purchasing the plots having an idea that there will be no government or powerful person who can eliminate them from their unethical and illegal occupancy.

But, sometimes some miracle can happen. Let us have an example.  There was a very big building was situated at the end of the Bijoy Sarani at Tejgaon area in Dhaka. This big tower was called as Rangs Bhaban . The building was established during late eighties in the last century. The building was established in the middle of a road by just creating an obstacle for further expansion of a major communication gateway. The owner of that building was a very rich and influential person who had very good relations with some politically powerful persons. That time everybody was thinking that there is no possibility of expansion of the road as the Rangs Tower was standing in the middle of the road as the great obstacle. Actually, the building was prohibiting  the connection of two important roads of eastern Tejgaon area to Bijoy Sarani road.

And yes, some miracle can happen any time. In 2007, a Caretaker government came  to the power in Bangladesh and the building was wipe out from the skyline of Dhaka. If you visit the place now at  the Eastern end of the Bijoy Sarani, you will discover that there is no Rangs Building there. Instead, you can drive your vehicle to the Mohakhali ~ Maghbazaar road from that Bijoy Sarani Road.

How long the Bangladeshi people should wait for the day when a benevolent government will come and wipe out the illegal occupancy from the rivers of Bangladesh from those hands of the Land Robbers and River Grabbers?