7th August 2022
EP Report

A parliamentary watchdog recently asked the environment ministry to snap power connections of industries under the Savar Tannery Estate for causing excessive pollution.

 

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment, Forest and Climate Change had earlier asked for closing such industries.

 

The meeting was held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with ruling Awami League MP Saber Hossain Chowdhury in the chair.

 

The Department of Environment placed grim statistics before the watchdog on the sorry state of the Dhaleswari River. It mentioned that aquatic life and biodiversity of the river have been destroyed by unbridled pollution caused by the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.

 

In the meeting, DoE said that the minimum level of oxygen of the Dhaleswari River should remain 200mg/per liter. But the oxygen level in this river’s water is two to three times less than the permissible limit.

 

Saber told reporters after the meeting that not only oxygen level, the amount of metal chromium in the Dhaleswari River was also much higher than the permissible level.

 

The parliamentary body chief said that DoE came up with the statistics following its research on the water of the Dhaleswari River in July.

 

He said that the industries ministry promised to increase the level of oxygen in the next three to six months and try to reduce it.


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