Bangladesh Army today started working on the relief efforts and rehabilitation of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.

Inter Service Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) director Lt Col Rashidul Hasan confirmed this to The Daily Star in the morning.

They were seen patrolling the makeshift camps from Kutupalong to Teknaf set up along the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf Highway, our Cox's Bazar staff correspondent reports from the spot.

Since August 26, the administration, donors and NGOs have built 26,000 sheds in 12 slums in Ukhia and Teknaf for the refugees, who entered Bangladesh to flee persecution in Myanmar. 

The administration has been distributing cooked food among one lakh refugees for the last two days, Ali Hossain, deputy commissioner of Cox's Bazar, said yesterday.

In Balukhali area of Ukhia, 2,000 acres of land have been allocated for building 14,000 sheds for 85,000 Rohingya families.

Mobile courts have, meanwhile, arrested and punished 212 for extorting and swindling the refugees, the DC added.

Twenty-two special police teams are working on maintaining law and order in the Rohingya settlements.

Eleven check posts run by police and border guards are preventing the refugees from spreading across the country. The check posts have intercepted 5,119 Rohingyas and sent them back to the camps in Ukhia and Teknaf, the deputi commissioner said.