Bhasan Char, also known as Char Piya, is an island in Hatiya Upazila, Bangladesh. It is located in the Bay of Bengal, 37 miles from the coast.The island was formed with Himalayan silt in 2006. It spans 40 square kilometres. It is under water from June to September annually because of the monsoon, and it has no flood fences. There are no roads on the island.In June 2015, the Bangladeshi government suggested resettling Rohingya refugees on the island. The proposal was characterized by the United Nations Refugee Agency as "logistically challenging". On January 26, 2017, the Bangladeshi government ordered their resettlement nonetheless. Human Rights Watch called it "a human rights and humanitarian disaster in the making".In August 2019, the government announced an expansion of the Ashrayan Project, to build 100-thousand homes.The houses are built four feet above the ground, in order to protect the refugees from high tidal waves.The public works have amounted to 309.5 million takas, a 34% increase from the initial allocation. Read More
Authorities in Bangladesh have said that they sent over two dozen Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited remote island after they entered the country in small boats following weeks at the sea.The Minister could not provide the number of Rohingya ferried ...
