Important Facts For Prelims
Bhashan Char Island
- 21 Oct 2019
- 1 min read
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.
- Bhashan Char island was formed about two decades ago on the mouth of river Meghna.
- The uninhabited island is located around 30 kilometres east of Hatiya island in South-East Bangladesh.
- Bangladesh wanted to move 100,000 Rohingya refugees to the muddy silt island to take the pressure off the overcrowded border camps.
- The Bhashan Char falls in an ecologically fragile area prone to floods, erosion and cyclone.
- Though the Bangladesh government has built a three-metre-high embankment along its perimeter to keep out tidal surges during cyclones.
