Jaflong is
a hill station and
popular tourist destination in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. It is located in Gowainghat Upazila ofSylhet District and
situated at the border between Bangladesh and
the Indian state of Meghalaya,
overshadowed by subtropical mountains and rainforests. Jaflong is famous for
its stone collections and is home of the zerodotinfo.blogspot.com tribe.
Jaflong is one of the most attractive
tourist spots in Sylhet division. It is about 60 km from Sylhet town and
takes two hours drive to reach there. Jaflong is also a scenic spot nearby
amidst tea gardens and rare beauty of rolling stones from hills. It is situated
besides the river Mari in the lap of Hill Khashia.
The land grabbers occupied
government khas land and reserved forestland and extracted stone by cutting
small hills polluting the environment of Jaflong. They also established
crushing mills on the forestland without permission from government.
In
early 2005, Laskar Muqsudur Rahman, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Sylhet
Forest Division, observed that Jaflong that he heard in his boyhood as the
'lungs' of Greater Sylhet was at stake due to on going encroachments and
establishment of unauthorized stone crushing mills. He took initiatives to
recover the land and establish a recreation-cum-botanical park named as
'Jaflong Green Park'. The first foundation stone for the thematic Green Park at
Jaflong was laid by Laskar Muqsudur Rahman, Deputy Conservator of Forests in
2005 with the cooperation of local forest staffs led by Forest Ranger Mohammad
Ali.
Nonetheless, at the inception it was a challenging task due to local
conflicts and procedural constraints. The forestation program in Jaflong Green
Park has been started under supervision of the joint forces, Jaflong Foundation
and Forest Department. They have jointly taken up the forestation program with
about 100 hectares of grabbed land. Under the forestation program, various
types of trees, including hybrid Akash-moni, are being planted in the park to
maintain ecological balance
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