Ali also grows different varieties of cash crops on Laheswari char - sand bars or isles created by the river Brahmaputra in its course - in another 40 bighas of land. “We also paid tax for our lost lands, till the revenue office stopped receiving tax against those lands in 2015”, says Roushan Ali, another villager who grows crops in 40 bighas of land. Prior to growing crops on this char, they used to cultivate lands in others chars nearby.