About 2,000 members of the persecuted community from Rakhine state of Myanmar will be relocated in the third batch, they added. Bhashan Char is an island in Noakhali district. The island was developed by the Bangladesh Navy at a cost of about Tk3,100 crore in preparation for the Rohingya. In the first two batches, on December 4 and 29 last year, a total of 3,414 Rohingyas were relocated to the island. To a question, Shamsud Douza said the relocated Rohingyas are doing well on the island in the Bay of Bengal.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 17, 2021 11:26 UTC