Chattogram Bureau :
Watchdog of the Port cCty – Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has been fined Tk 10.38 crore for constructing a road through cutting hills and damaging biodiversity in Chattogram.
Rubina Ferdousi, Director of Department of Environment, handed down the penalty after a hearing in Dhaka on Wednesday.
CDA built a link road from Dhaka Trunk Road to Bayezid Bostami. The construction of the road ended in 2018 starting from 2013.Khulshi, Panchlaish, Sholoshahar, Bayezid Bostami, Foy’s Lake, Akbar Shah, Lalkhan Bazar, Pahartali, Kattali and Polytechnic area are some of the locations adversely affected by mindless hill cutting.
Hills of the port city are mainly razed for building houses construction, developing residential areas and road networks.
Indiscriminate hill cutting has triggered calamities like landslides that killed at least 230 people in Chattogram in last decade.
Unsustainable use of land and rampant hill-cutting were two major reasons behind the landslide vulnerability in the hilly areas of Chattagram.
Watchdog of the Port cCty – Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has been fined Tk 10.38 crore for constructing a road through cutting hills and damaging biodiversity in Chattogram.
Rubina Ferdousi, Director of Department of Environment, handed down the penalty after a hearing in Dhaka on Wednesday.
CDA built a link road from Dhaka Trunk Road to Bayezid Bostami. The construction of the road ended in 2018 starting from 2013.Khulshi, Panchlaish, Sholoshahar, Bayezid Bostami, Foy’s Lake, Akbar Shah, Lalkhan Bazar, Pahartali, Kattali and Polytechnic area are some of the locations adversely affected by mindless hill cutting.
Hills of the port city are mainly razed for building houses construction, developing residential areas and road networks.
Indiscriminate hill cutting has triggered calamities like landslides that killed at least 230 people in Chattogram in last decade.
Unsustainable use of land and rampant hill-cutting were two major reasons behind the landslide vulnerability in the hilly areas of Chattagram.
