The Department of Environment has caught a factory in Dhaka's Shyampur-Kadamtali industrial area pumping untreated waste through an illegal bypass line, during checks on four factories to curb pollution of the Buriganga. The monitoring drive was carried out on Wednesday, 11 November, on the instructions of the central cell set up to protect the rivers around Dhaka, Protidiner Sangbad reports.
Liquid waste samples were taken from M/s Siba Textile, M/s Al Fattah Textile, Noore Madina Dyeing and Sharmin Textile. At Siba Textile, officials found harmful untreated effluent being discharged straight into the environment through an illegal line that bypassed the effluent treatment plant (ETP).
The samples will be tested in the department's laboratory, and depending on the results, legal action will be taken against offending factories under the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act 1995 and the Environment Conservation Rules 2023, the department said.
The drive was led by Department of Environment executive magistrate Sadia Akter, with representatives of the Bangladesh Navy, Syed Ahmed Kabir, deputy director of the department's monitoring and enforcement wing, and officials from its Dhaka metropolitan and Dhaka laboratory offices. Members of the Coast Guard and river police also took part.
The department said mobile courts and enforcement drives to protect the Buriganga and Dhaka's other rivers will continue regularly, to secure a clean and liveable environment.
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Source: Protidiner Sangbad
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