The Department of Roads and Highway has launched a five-day eviction drive to remove illegal establishments on the highway in Pabna. The drive was started on Wednesday.
As part of the drive, the eviction was carried out from C&B bus stand to Amaikola bridge area of the upazila on Thursday.
Sources said, some local influential had been occupied the land possessed by the Roads and highways, by making fake leases. They made shops there to rent. The authorities of Roads and Highways crushed those illegal establishments using bulldozers on Thursday.
About 500 shops were evicted from the Bera bus stand area ranging distance about 1 km. However, owners of the shops had become able to remove their selling materials safely before the drive began.
After completing the drive, the number of evicted establishments will be informed, said Tanvir Ahmed, sub-divisional engineer in Pabna Roads and Highway, when he was asked about the numbers of installations that will be removed.
Md Mahbubur Rahman Faruqi, Executive Magistrate of Roads and Highway, said that the drive will be carried out beside the National Highway in Pabna and the campaign will be continued to eradicate illegal establishments.
Mentionable, about 700 illegal installations were evicted at Kashinathpur bus stand area on Wednesday, the beginning day of the drive.