THE High Court鈥檚 recent directive to restore the River Dhaleshwari and hold encroachers and polluters accountable is a welcome step. The river is under severe threat from unchecked encroachment and industrial pollution. The High Court directed the National River Conservation Commission, the deputy commissioner of Dhaka and the Inland Water Transport Authority...
The High Court on Sunday directed the government bodies concerned to identify and take action against those responsible for encroachment on and pollution at Dhaleshwari River at Dakhkin Dariapur at Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
The River Dhaleshwari, once a lifeline for farming and fishing communities at Savar is now choking with the same pollution that had devastated the Buriganga before the relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh.
The sorry state of rivers is blamed, among others, on an unabated grabbing of river land by entrepreneurs and individuals enjoying political and moneyed clout. Some entrepreneurs setting up brick kilns, as a photograph with...