DU Correspondent :
Environmentalists on Saturday alleged that several parts of the Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at Savar Tannery Industrial Estate are not completed yet.
Sharif Jamil, Joint Secretary, Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa), said that their team visited the Industrial Estate at Savar on Friday and found three parts of the project — Solid Waste Management Plant, Chrome Treatment Plant and Salt Purification Plant — of the CETP were not completed yet.
He said this while speaking as the keynote speaker in a press conference organized at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) in the city on Saturday.
The programme was organised by Buriganga Riverkeeper, an environmental organisation, to brief journalists about the latest status of the shifting of tanneries to Savar from the capital’s Hazaribagh area.
As a result, Jamil said, the river Dhaleshwari is being polluted due to the mixing of waste from tanneries with river water.
“We demand immediate steps from the government to complete the construction of those at the earliest,” he added.
Abdul Qaiyum, Director of Tannery Relocation Project, said that the authority would not change the dateline for tannery relocation.
”We are facing problem to run the CEPT as minimum of 10,000 cubic metres of wet waste is required to run it properly but at the present we are getting only 3,000 cubic metres of wet waste from the tanneries in Savar”, he said.
About the construction of the other parts of the CEPT, the Director said minimum Tk 500 crore is required to build the salt treatment plant.
“And the Chrome Treatment Plant will be completed within a short period of time,” he added.
Syed Abul Maksud, Vice President of Bapa, urged the government to publish the detail report on the relocation status and to take immediate steps for stopping the pollution in Buriganga River.
Environmentalists on Saturday alleged that several parts of the Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at Savar Tannery Industrial Estate are not completed yet.
Sharif Jamil, Joint Secretary, Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa), said that their team visited the Industrial Estate at Savar on Friday and found three parts of the project — Solid Waste Management Plant, Chrome Treatment Plant and Salt Purification Plant — of the CETP were not completed yet.
He said this while speaking as the keynote speaker in a press conference organized at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) in the city on Saturday.
The programme was organised by Buriganga Riverkeeper, an environmental organisation, to brief journalists about the latest status of the shifting of tanneries to Savar from the capital’s Hazaribagh area.
As a result, Jamil said, the river Dhaleshwari is being polluted due to the mixing of waste from tanneries with river water.
“We demand immediate steps from the government to complete the construction of those at the earliest,” he added.
Abdul Qaiyum, Director of Tannery Relocation Project, said that the authority would not change the dateline for tannery relocation.
”We are facing problem to run the CEPT as minimum of 10,000 cubic metres of wet waste is required to run it properly but at the present we are getting only 3,000 cubic metres of wet waste from the tanneries in Savar”, he said.
About the construction of the other parts of the CEPT, the Director said minimum Tk 500 crore is required to build the salt treatment plant.
“And the Chrome Treatment Plant will be completed within a short period of time,” he added.
Syed Abul Maksud, Vice President of Bapa, urged the government to publish the detail report on the relocation status and to take immediate steps for stopping the pollution in Buriganga River.
