Chattogram Correspondent :
In the last four decades, about 120 hills have disappeared in Chittagong city. 5 years ago there were 20 hills, 60 percent of which were already extinct.
Speakers at Chittagong Press Club Engineer Abdul Khalek Auditorium on Saturday (August 8th) demanded that the Chittagong History Culture Research Center and Bangladesh Environmental Forum joint initiative of conservation and protection of illegal residents of Chittagong, including Jungle Salimpur, and protection of the river.
They said that after the English rule, the number of hills in Pakistan has decreased by 20 years. After independence, the hills of Chittagong have completely disappeared till the 21st. At the same time, the partial cut was cut. In the next 12 years, the situation has taken a terrible shape. With the population growth of the city, the mountains have increased.
Professor of Forest and Environmental Sciences of Chittagong University at the seminar organized by the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association-Bela. Alur Rahman, general secretary of Bangladesh Environment Forum, read the written statement at the press conference, according to Khaled Mesbahuzzaman’s research article.
The total hill in five police stations in the city was 12.75 square kilometers. In 20, it was reduced to 9.2 sq km. At this time, 5.75 square kilometers hills were cut. It is about 60 percent of the total mountains. These hills were cut in the city’s Bayazid, Khulshi, Panchlaish, Kotwali and Pahartali police stations. The highest number of cuts is cut in Panchla.
The CDA cut the Faujdarhat-Baizid bypass road by cutting the hills. They get permission to cut about 5 hills for the construction of this road. The Environment Department fined the CDA more than Tk.1 crore for violating the construction of the six -kilometer length road. After the construction of the CDA road, the hill cutting festival began on the bypass road from Bayazid to Faujdarhat, which is currently underway.
