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The lease of the 0.5120 acres of land has been cancelled since it is categorised as a ‘canal’ in the RS record, according to a land ministry notice
Published : 07 Nov 2024, 05:23 PM
The government has cancelled the lease of a piece of land situated on the Ramchandrapur Canal in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur, for ‘Surer Dhara,’ a music institution owned by celebrated Rabindra Sangeet singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya.
The plot of land is about 0.5120 acres, according to a notice signed by the land ministry’s Deputy Secretary Md Aminur Rahman on Thursday.
The lease of the land at Ramchandrapur Mouza in Mohammadpur has been scrapped since the land is categorised as a ‘canal’ in RS record, the notice read.
Bannya established the Rabindra Sangeet education institute Surer Dhara in 1992.
Born on Jan 13, 1957 in the Rangpur district, Bannya first studied at Chhayanaut and then at the Visva Bharati University in India. Over the course of her career, she has been close with a number of notable musicians, including Santidev Ghosh, Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Nilima Sen and Ashish Bandyopadhyay.
Bannya has written several books on the music of Rabindranath Tagore.
The famed singer received the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award presented by India.
She was also awarded the ‘Bangabhushan’ by the West Bengal government and the Feroza Begum Memorial Gold Medal.
Bangladesh previously recognised Bannya’s contributions to music and her promotion of Tagore’s music with an Independence Award in 2016.
In 2022, the Bangladesh government launched a website that preserved 5,000 songs by Bannya alongside a biography and photographs. She was the first Rabindra Sangeet singer to receive the honour.
