No police station will be built at Tetultala playground in the city’s Kalabagan area as per the instruction of the Prime Minister, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday. “Local people will use this playground as before as per the instruction of the Prime Minister,” the minister told reporters at the Secretariat. However, the land will remain as police property and  police will do the maintenance of the ground, he said. Also read: Tetultala playground now police property: Home Minister “I saw that there was no place to play in the area. The Prime Minister also said that since there is no open space and there is no scope of entertainment the land should be kept as it is now. That is our decision,” said the minister. But the minister also mentioned that it is not a suitable place for a playground. Asked where the Kalabagan police station will be built, the minister said, "We will see and will talk about later.” “Nothing is happening right now. The construction work must be stopped.”

Tetultala playground has been allotted for police and now it is their property, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said . “Since the allotment has been made, this place belongs to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) now,” said he while responding to questions from reporters after a meeting with some environmental activists on Wednesday. The decision regarding construction of a police station at an alternative place instead of Tetultala ground in the city’s Kalabagan area will be taken after discussions with the Prime Minister, he said. Also read: Decision on Kalabagan playground after discussion: Home Minister He will also discuss with the DMP Commissioner about stopping the construction of wall at the playground. The environmental activists came to the secretariat seeking steps to arrange an alternative place for police station construction and stopping wall construction. After the meeting, Khushi Kabir, rights activist and a coordinator of ‘Nijera Kori’ told reporters, "We wanted to stop what is going on here.” “He (Home Minister) has said that he will discuss. He will discuss the matter with the Prime Minister,” she added. Meanwhile, the Home Minister said Tetultala was not a playground and it was a vacant and an abandoned property. “Our new police stations in Dhaka city work mostly in rented houses. Our police force is facing various difficulties for this reason.” “That’s why we asked the Deputy Commissioner (DC) to see whether any place can be allotted at Kalabagan by acquiring land," he said. The DC then allotted Tetultala playground after seeing it and talking to public representatives. “DMP has also deposited the money and the DC later handed it over to the DMP. This is the main thing,” said the minister. "We heard children in this area used to play here. But we are clear, we need space, we also need a police station building at Kalabagan.”