Indiscriminate release of liquid waste by the factories in & around of Konabari industrial zone has destroyed a large part of Turag river & Baimail Jheel, causes great problem to the villagers who lived the bank of the river. Factories liquid waste materials & black smog what's contains carbon-di-oxaide created by brick fields, it's like double suffering to the villagers. Local people things these industrials activities unfertile their land, unproductive there trees, river have no fishes & birth house of mosquitoes. The govt established the konabari Bangladesh Small & Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) industrial area in early 1980 to promote & expand small & cottage industries. Since then the industries are polluting surrounding environment despite getting different facility packages from the government. Recently BSCIC listed 152 polluter industries. About them 56 dyeing & textile industries, 50 chemicals & pharmaceuticals, nine food processing & 37 other engineering industries. These industries have no waste management plant like ETP. Bscic officials are know that but they don't take the necessary steps. Bscic provided the industrialist with land in a subsidised price along with many facilities. But most of the industries are paying back by indiscriminately polluting the environmemt. Since the beginning the govt was providing tax holiday for five years & no import duty & vat for capital machinery for these polluters. Turag rivers are very much polluted with waste matarials why it's water colour turn in to deep black. That water not useable for drinking & washing. Massive suffering of the people was witnessed during journalist visits to the surrounding villages including Baimail, Kodda, Kashimpur & Konabari. Beside brick fields creat many problems. Inhabitants of these areas said to the journalist they can't use the river's water anyway. Even they can't take bath there. Brick field's dust suffer them must. They also said at lest 20 Baimail villagers have left the village & settled in Gazipur town or nearby due to the environment pollution. One return his childhood he said 12 years ago the Turag & Baimail Jheel had a various fish. Now any fish yet to servive there. They aren't move because they are afordless to move. They collected useble water from tubewells. They aren't getting fruits from past few years. Villagers things that govt need to take great stapes to save the TURAG river & the pollution to the villagers.
---collected from DAILY STAR
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