All steps to revive the Buriganga river from persistent pollution have turned into a fiasco, as dumping of garbage and untreated industrial effluents into the river is going on unhindered. People living on the banks of the river continue to dump garbage into the Buriganga, even though the government has already spent Tk. 16.53 crore ... Read more
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Waste dumping continues to pollute Buriganga
The government spent Tk 16.9313 crore to remove polythene and other wastes from the rivers Buriganga and Turag while the two rivers continue to be polluted through uninterrupted disposal of liquid and solid wastes into them. The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority was the
Sewage goes straight into Buriganga
Wasa disowns 70pc of total sewage in Dhaka A year after the High Court directed Dhaka Wasa to seal off sewage outlets into the Buriganga, Wasa says 70 percent of the capital’s sewage is illegally dumped into the Buriganga. Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) said it had no sewage lines of its own ... Read more
Buriganga in its death throes
Waste continues to be dumped into the River Buriganga despite a June 2011 High Court order which prohibited the dumping of waste in the river or on its banks as well as ordering the sealing of sewerage outlets and industrial wastes lines within a year. The High Court directed the chairman of Dhaka Water Supply ... Read more
Buriganga in peril
Faulty demarcation flouting HC order creates scope for grabbing the river’s foreshore The government itself now seems poised to make the Buriganga a leaner stream by squeezing its shorelines in violation of a High Court order. Earlier, in April last year, the Turag river suffered a similar fate as Gazipur district administration demarcated it by ... Read more
Buriganga second channel at stake
Unabated encroachment, waste dumping leave it in a near-death condition The second channel of the Buriganga, which flows through the southwestern part of the capital, is almost dead due to wholesale encroachment by public and private organisations and also dumping of waste. Also known as Buriganga Morarkhari, the channel was originally around six kilometres long. ... Read more
Shut sewerage, waste lines to Buriganga
HC gives govt one year for the job The High Court yesterday directed the government to seal off all the sewage outlets into the Buriganga River within next year. In response to a writ petition, the HC also directed the authorities concerned to stop dumping waste into the river and declared their inaction in preventing ... Read more
Buriganga freed of 6 grabbers
Inland waterways and district administration authorities stopped earth-filling and removed boundary walls built by some encroachers on the river Buriganga at the city’s Mohammadpur yesterday. Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) along with Dhaka district administration conducted the drive along around 700 metre embankment of the river in Ramchandrapur mouja as