Hill destroyers go unpunished
Although more than 120 hills have vanished from the port city in four decades, no one has been put behind the bar for the offence in the last 20 years, thanks to legal loopholes.
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Although more than 120 hills have vanished from the port city in four decades, no one has been put behind the bar for the offence in the last 20 years, thanks to legal loopholes.
Defying law, shipbreakers in Chattogram are breaking scrap vessels without obtaining clearance from the Department of Environment (DoE), putting the environment at risk.
For the last three years, Enamul Haque, a resident of Halishahar’s Chowdhury Para in the port city, has been suffering from waterlogging.
These canals are connected with each other and flow into the Karnaphuli river
A team of the Department of Environment (DoE) today (October 19, 2022) arrested two people for razing hills and damaging the ecosystem in Chattogram.