Bhashan Char Island
Posted on : 10 Feb 2020
Views: 1255- Bangladesh has built the relocation camp at Bhashan Char with a capacity to accommodate about 1lakh people to take the pressure off the overcrowded border camps.
- The Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh camps have agreed to move to Bhashan Char Island in the Bay of Bengal.
- The island is also known as Thengar Char Island.
- The Bhashan Char is an uninhabited island around 30 kilometres east of Hatiya island in the South East Bangladesh.
- Bhashan Char island was formed about two decades ago on the mouth of river Meghna.
- Though the Bangladesh government has built a three-metre-high embankment along its perimeter to keep out tidal surges during cyclones but the island falls in an ecologically fragile area prone to floods, erosion and cyclone.
Article Related Questions
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Bhashan Char Island was in news recently is located in which country?
1.India
2.Sri-Lanka
3.Bangladesh
4.Myanmar
Right Ans : Bangladesh
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