TNPSC Thervupettagam

Floating Island

March 28 , 2018 2433 days 1059 0
  • An uninhabited and muddy Bay of Bengal island is in process to turn into home for 1,00,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar.
  • The government of Bangladesh is reportedly making “temporary arrangements” for these people to the island named Bhasan Char (meaning floating island).
  • Floating Island, which emerged from the silt only about 20 years ago, is about 30 km (21 miles) from the mainland.
  • Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has cleared that putting Rohingya on the low-lying island would be a “temporary arrangement”
  • It is to ease congestion at the camps in Cox’s Bazar, which houses nearly 700,000 Rohingya who have fled Myanmar since August, 2017.

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