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Environmental March 12, 2014

80pc wetlands and flood flow zones filled up

Wetland filled up in massive scale for the Eastern and other Housing Project in Alubdi Area by Pallabi, starting at the end of the National Botanical Garden in Mirpur in 2004. Today, in 2014 it is a full grown town of concrete with no trace of water, fish, bird or alike. Photo: K. BHUIYAN

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, […]

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 […]

DoE fines dyeing plant fined for pollution

Industrial Pollution in Bangladesh in Colours and Smells.

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 […]