City Desk :
The government will resume its drives against encroachment and pollution of rivers in Dhaka and its adjoining areas in a coordinated way with cooperation of all stakeholders as per a master plan to bring back its navigability and aesthetic beauty to enhance their contributions to the country’s socioeconomic development.
“The government is determined to free all the rivers from pollution and encroachment to retrieve navigability of the rivers to augment its aesthetic beauty for their optimum utilization to the socioeconomic development of the country,” LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam said.
He said this on Thursday while presiding over an online meeting of the master plan formulation committee at his office at the secretariat.
State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Local Government Division Senior Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed, National River Conservation Commission Chairman Dr Muzibur Rahman Howlader, Bangladesh Water Development Board Director General Engineer A. M. Aminul Haque, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Chairman Commodore Golam Sadeq and Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WAS) Managing Director Engineer Taqsem A Khan joined it.
Welcoming the Shipping Ministry’s move to free the rivers in Dhaka and its adjoining areas, the LGRD minister said the drive should be continued to free all rivers of the country including Dhaka from being grabbed and polluted.
“We will have to remain alert always as the river encroachers think that the government’s move against grabbing won’t be continued and they would be able to start their ill efforts of grabbing river embankments again,” he said.
Turning to water-logging problem in the capital Dhaka, Tazul urged all concerned to continue their united efforts in coordination with Dhaka north and south city corporations and the Dhaka WASA as the citizens do not have to suffer for water-logging by any means during the monsoon and throughout the year.
The government will resume its drives against encroachment and pollution of rivers in Dhaka and its adjoining areas in a coordinated way with cooperation of all stakeholders as per a master plan to bring back its navigability and aesthetic beauty to enhance their contributions to the country’s socioeconomic development.
“The government is determined to free all the rivers from pollution and encroachment to retrieve navigability of the rivers to augment its aesthetic beauty for their optimum utilization to the socioeconomic development of the country,” LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam said.
He said this on Thursday while presiding over an online meeting of the master plan formulation committee at his office at the secretariat.
State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Local Government Division Senior Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed, National River Conservation Commission Chairman Dr Muzibur Rahman Howlader, Bangladesh Water Development Board Director General Engineer A. M. Aminul Haque, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Chairman Commodore Golam Sadeq and Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WAS) Managing Director Engineer Taqsem A Khan joined it.
Welcoming the Shipping Ministry’s move to free the rivers in Dhaka and its adjoining areas, the LGRD minister said the drive should be continued to free all rivers of the country including Dhaka from being grabbed and polluted.
“We will have to remain alert always as the river encroachers think that the government’s move against grabbing won’t be continued and they would be able to start their ill efforts of grabbing river embankments again,” he said.
Turning to water-logging problem in the capital Dhaka, Tazul urged all concerned to continue their united efforts in coordination with Dhaka north and south city corporations and the Dhaka WASA as the citizens do not have to suffer for water-logging by any means during the monsoon and throughout the year.
