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40pc railway land occupied illegally Roundtable told [1]

Over 40 percent of the land belonging to Bangladesh Railway (BR) has been encroached over the years, proper use of which could make the railway a very profitable sector, speakers told a roundtable yesterday.

The railway sector has the potential to be developed as the cheapest and most convenient mass transport system of the country, they said.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2009
Daily Star (Bangladesh) [2]
Tags:
Land Encroachments [3], Economy [4], Road Transport [5], Rail Transport [6], Bangladesh [7]
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