Real Estate Development and Housing Companies have destroyed more than 80 percent of the capital’s conservable floodplains and water retention, wetlands and flood flow zones, mostly in the last five years, as the government stalled implementing key recommendations of the Detailed Area Plan (DAP), intensifying flood and climate change vulnerability to Bangladesh, say experts. It is self-destructive, […]
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80pc wetlands and flood flow zones filled up
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Spinning Mills built in the middle of the river Turag
The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) or Capital City Development Authority yesterday staged a rather ridiculous eviction drive with 10 labourers to knock down only 80 square feet brick wall of a 9,292 square metres spinning mills being built on the flood flow zone of the Turag river. Led by an executive magistrate, the eviction team arrived […]
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DoE fines dyeing plant fined for pollution
Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a textile dyeing factory in Gazipur for polluting the river Turag with untreated toxic effluent. AMC Knit Composite had been operating without environmental clearance since 2008 in Mohna Bhabanipur, said a DoE press release. Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, director of DoE, handed down the fine of BDT 3.1 million (EUR […]
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