“We have already visited Bhasan Char. Preparations are underway to relocate a group of Rohingya to island in the next 8-10 days,” he said.
Two years ago, the government made plans to relocate a portion of the 1.1 million forcibly-displaced Rohingya people living in and outside the refugee camps along Bangladesh’s south coast to Bhasan Char, situated in the Meghna River’s estuary near Hatia.
However, the process of relocation failed to get off the ground due to the reluctance of the Rohingya refugees to move to the uninhabited island.
Edited By-SPT
