date:Jun 06, 2012
According to The Daily Star, they also urged the government not to lease out the region's water sources, especially ponds and canals.
Many people take such water bodies on lease in the name of paddy cultivation and use them for shrimp cultivation, thus violating the government condition that allows the lease out only for paddy cultivation, they said.
Some people, representing the dwellers of the different upazilas and districts in the southwestern region, made these remarks at a press confer