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Pull up the railway from morass [1]

JUST how neglected the Bangladesh Railway (BR) has been since the country's independence is driven home by some eye-opening statistics cited at a roundtable recently. Not only has it lost over 40 percent of its land resource to illegal occupation, the size of its inventory with which it had originally begun in 1971 has also shrunk terribly over time.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2009
Daily Star (Bangladesh) [2]
Tags:
Land Encroachments [3], Transport [4], Public Transport [5], Rail Transport [6], Bangladesh [7]
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