Sylhet Correspondent :
The rivers of Sylhet are facing serious threat of protecting their existence as most of them have lost flow of waters and navigability as well.
Once boats, launches and steamers used to ply in the rivers carrying goods and passengers from one district to another. Now it has become a dream.
Continuous dumping of garbage, waste of local industries and absence of dredging operation, the beds of the rivers filled with silt are rising up day by day.
Besides, land grabbers are building unauthorized structures in the rivers occupying their beds continuously. Once the mighty river old Borak at Dakshin Surma upazila, Surma river at Sadar and Biswanath upazilas, Kusiara at Fenchugonj and Balagonj upazilas, were very busy.
Now, the rivers have lost their existence, movements of boats and launches have totally stopped in old Borak, Basia and Surma. The rivers have also lost their fishing resources due to lack of water flow and continuous dumping of wastes of local factories.
During a visit to the bank of the Kamalbazar at Dakshin Surma and Biswanath areas the correspondent found that a number of factories have been built by grabbing the river and factories are discharging highly toxic water into it.
Farmers of the areas alleged that their agricultural lands are being affected since the dyeing factories and industries are continuously spewing toxic industrial wastes into their crop fields and water bodies. They said the waters of the rivers have turned poisonous.
They opined that the government can still save the rivers stopping the factory wastes and chemical mixed waters in the rivers and by recovering the occupied lands of the rivers from land grabbers and by massive dredging operation.
The rivers of Sylhet are facing serious threat of protecting their existence as most of them have lost flow of waters and navigability as well.
Once boats, launches and steamers used to ply in the rivers carrying goods and passengers from one district to another. Now it has become a dream.
Continuous dumping of garbage, waste of local industries and absence of dredging operation, the beds of the rivers filled with silt are rising up day by day.
Besides, land grabbers are building unauthorized structures in the rivers occupying their beds continuously. Once the mighty river old Borak at Dakshin Surma upazila, Surma river at Sadar and Biswanath upazilas, Kusiara at Fenchugonj and Balagonj upazilas, were very busy.
Now, the rivers have lost their existence, movements of boats and launches have totally stopped in old Borak, Basia and Surma. The rivers have also lost their fishing resources due to lack of water flow and continuous dumping of wastes of local factories.
During a visit to the bank of the Kamalbazar at Dakshin Surma and Biswanath areas the correspondent found that a number of factories have been built by grabbing the river and factories are discharging highly toxic water into it.
Farmers of the areas alleged that their agricultural lands are being affected since the dyeing factories and industries are continuously spewing toxic industrial wastes into their crop fields and water bodies. They said the waters of the rivers have turned poisonous.
They opined that the government can still save the rivers stopping the factory wastes and chemical mixed waters in the rivers and by recovering the occupied lands of the rivers from land grabbers and by massive dredging operation.
