JS body for increasing lease rates of railway land

The parliamentary standing committee on railway affairs ministry asked on Sunday officials concerned to increase the lease rates of railway land, reports BSS.

"In a meeting, the committee urged the ministry to take steps for raising the lease charge of railway land," a parliamentary secretariat statement said.

The meeting, it said also recommended constructing boundary walls after recovering occupied land.

The meeting discussed total land of Bangladesh Railway Welfare Trust and upgrading of Tin-Shade Market located in Chattogram rail station road area to high-rise building and ensuring Wi-Fi service at railway stations.

This was the 45th meeting of the committee presided over by the committee's chairman ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury.