Powerful land grabbers are illegally occupying nearly ninety percent of the country’s Khas (public) land, said Dhaka University Professor Abul Barkat on Wednesday at a workshop in the city.
Land grabbers, mostly real estate developers, illegally occupy 10,000 acres of Khas land including water bodies in and around the capital city, he said citing a parliamentary committee report in a keynote presentation.
Total amount of Khas land identified so far in the country is five million acres, he said, of which agricultural land and water bodies constitute 1.2 million acres each.
According to Barkat’s presentation, 56 percent of the country’s total households were landless until 2006. Access to land ownership of indigenous people is also declining at an increased pace.
Of Bangladesh’s total 37 million acres of land area, 43 percent is privately owned and five million acres are under litigation, he said.
Of the total, 60 percent is agricultural, five million acres are water bodies and only one-sixth is forest. Government remains custodian of 2.6 million acres of vested property and one million acres of abandoned property as per relevant laws.
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