City Desk :
The taskforce on maintaining normal flow and navigability of the country’s important rivers including Buriganga at a meeting on Thursday said the grabbers of riverbanks will not be spared anymore and mobile court would be conducted against them to award imprisonment and fine.
The meeting decided that mobile Court would be run through Directorate of Environment so that all factories set up effluent treatment plant (ETP), a press release said.
The 32nd meeting of the taskforce was held at the Shipping Ministry meeting room with Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan in the chair.
On August 3, the taskforce would visit Leather Industrial City at Savar in order to shift the tannery industry to the city’s outskirt.
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) will conduct survey to set up boundary pillars along the riverbanks as well as conduct eviction drive against those who constructed buildings grabbing the land of canal in Fatullah in Narayanganj.
It was informed in the meeting that the committee report to save the Buriganga river has been submitted to the High Court (HC). Steps would be taken after the HC order comes.
An eco-park has been established at Shyampur and three more such parks will be built in
Kanchpur, Tongi and Ashulia, surroundings the capital Dhaka.
Some 20 kilometer walkway has been constructed to protect riverbanks and 50 kilometer more walkway would be made by this government tenure.
Around 4,000 boundary pillars have been set up along riverbanks surroundings of Dhaka while some 5000 others along Shitalakkha river in Narayanganj.
The cross-barrage on Baral river at Mathura-Doharpara under Chatmohor upazila in Pabna district has been removed completely so that the river get partial connection with the country’s largest wetland “Chalan Beel”.
Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif, State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid and parliament member Sanjida Khanam, among others, were present in the meeting.
The taskforce on maintaining normal flow and navigability of the country’s important rivers including Buriganga at a meeting on Thursday said the grabbers of riverbanks will not be spared anymore and mobile court would be conducted against them to award imprisonment and fine.
The meeting decided that mobile Court would be run through Directorate of Environment so that all factories set up effluent treatment plant (ETP), a press release said.
The 32nd meeting of the taskforce was held at the Shipping Ministry meeting room with Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan in the chair.
On August 3, the taskforce would visit Leather Industrial City at Savar in order to shift the tannery industry to the city’s outskirt.
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) will conduct survey to set up boundary pillars along the riverbanks as well as conduct eviction drive against those who constructed buildings grabbing the land of canal in Fatullah in Narayanganj.
It was informed in the meeting that the committee report to save the Buriganga river has been submitted to the High Court (HC). Steps would be taken after the HC order comes.
An eco-park has been established at Shyampur and three more such parks will be built in
Kanchpur, Tongi and Ashulia, surroundings the capital Dhaka.
Some 20 kilometer walkway has been constructed to protect riverbanks and 50 kilometer more walkway would be made by this government tenure.
Around 4,000 boundary pillars have been set up along riverbanks surroundings of Dhaka while some 5000 others along Shitalakkha river in Narayanganj.
The cross-barrage on Baral river at Mathura-Doharpara under Chatmohor upazila in Pabna district has been removed completely so that the river get partial connection with the country’s largest wetland “Chalan Beel”.
Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif, State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid and parliament member Sanjida Khanam, among others, were present in the meeting.
