Rangamati Correspondent :
To keep the Karnaphuli River water free from pollution, a process to install effluent treatment plant (ETP) at Karnaphuli Paper Mills (KPM) here is going on.
The KPM authority is expecting that the installation will be completed within next several months, and from then on, no effluent will be dumped in the Karnaphuli River and will not pollute its water.
But, some local sources said, not only the KPM, but at least 32 industries beside the Karnaphuli River are also polluting the river water as they are yet to install ETPs at their restive industries. But, the KPM alone is mysteriously accused of the pollution, the sources added.
A source at the KPM said, under an initiative to examine the range of pollution in the Karnaphuli River water, some samples were tested at a laboratory. From the test, the increased range of pollution was found in the samples. Still, the KPM authority has taken steps to install ETP at the factory, and the work is going on smoothly.
Recently, Director (Production & Research) of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) Md Altaf Uddin Sheikh visited the ETP installation work at the KPM and expressed his satisfaction in this connection.
He was accompanied by Managing Director (MD) of KPM Engineer Khan Javed Anwar, Additional Chief Chemist of BCIC Saidul Islam, Executive Engineer of Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Nazrul Islam, Executive Engineer of Chittagong WASA Maksud Alam, General Manager (GM/Production) of KPM Bidyut Kumar Biswas, GM (Administration) Md Anwar Hossen and other concerned officials.
Director (Production & Research) of BCIC Md Altaf Uddin Sheikh said, “Not only KPM but the Karnaphuli River is also our national asset. We do not want that for the sake of one, another get damaged. We will take all steps to ensure production of paper at the KPM.”
It may be mentioned that, the KPM was established beside the Karnaphuli River at Chandraghona area under Kaptai upazila here in 1950. The KPM is meeting up a major portion of the total demand of paper for the country. Besides, a pulp wood forest division was also created to ensure supply of raw materials at the KPM. The demand of a remarkable quantity of bamboo, which is also the raw material at the KPM, is also being met up with the bamboo produced here.
Meanwhile, many people from the district and outside the district are employed at the KPM.
To keep the Karnaphuli River water free from pollution, a process to install effluent treatment plant (ETP) at Karnaphuli Paper Mills (KPM) here is going on.
The KPM authority is expecting that the installation will be completed within next several months, and from then on, no effluent will be dumped in the Karnaphuli River and will not pollute its water.
But, some local sources said, not only the KPM, but at least 32 industries beside the Karnaphuli River are also polluting the river water as they are yet to install ETPs at their restive industries. But, the KPM alone is mysteriously accused of the pollution, the sources added.
A source at the KPM said, under an initiative to examine the range of pollution in the Karnaphuli River water, some samples were tested at a laboratory. From the test, the increased range of pollution was found in the samples. Still, the KPM authority has taken steps to install ETP at the factory, and the work is going on smoothly.
Recently, Director (Production & Research) of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) Md Altaf Uddin Sheikh visited the ETP installation work at the KPM and expressed his satisfaction in this connection.
He was accompanied by Managing Director (MD) of KPM Engineer Khan Javed Anwar, Additional Chief Chemist of BCIC Saidul Islam, Executive Engineer of Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Nazrul Islam, Executive Engineer of Chittagong WASA Maksud Alam, General Manager (GM/Production) of KPM Bidyut Kumar Biswas, GM (Administration) Md Anwar Hossen and other concerned officials.
Director (Production & Research) of BCIC Md Altaf Uddin Sheikh said, “Not only KPM but the Karnaphuli River is also our national asset. We do not want that for the sake of one, another get damaged. We will take all steps to ensure production of paper at the KPM.”
It may be mentioned that, the KPM was established beside the Karnaphuli River at Chandraghona area under Kaptai upazila here in 1950. The KPM is meeting up a major portion of the total demand of paper for the country. Besides, a pulp wood forest division was also created to ensure supply of raw materials at the KPM. The demand of a remarkable quantity of bamboo, which is also the raw material at the KPM, is also being met up with the bamboo produced here.
Meanwhile, many people from the district and outside the district are employed at the KPM.
