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Save Louhajang river from land grabbers, polluters

Human chain in Tangail demands

Our Correspondent, Tangail
A human chain followed by a rally was held in Tangail town yesterday demanding immediate steps to save Louhajang river from the land grabbers and industrial pollution.
Tangail district unit of Sushasaner Janno Procharabhijan (Supro), a non-governmental organisation, arranged the programmes at Nirala intersection on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day.
Hundreds of people including students, professionals and representatives from different nongovernmental organisations joined the human chain. They also held rally on the local Shaheed Minar premises.
Speakers at the rally welcomed the government's move to save rivers across the country and demanded steps
by local administratio to free Louhajang river, flowing through Tangail town, from grabbers and polluters.
They alleged that a number of influential people have already occupied the shoreline of Louhajang river turning it into a narrow canal. The encroachers have farmed vegetables, raised fruits orchards and constructed concrete structures there to justify their rights, they alleged.
Citing example they said, a certain textile mills in Taratia and a yarn dying firm in Tangail BSCIC estate have been polluting the river water by releasing harmful untreated industrial and textile wastes for long.
The aforesaid textile mills has an effluent treatment plant (ETP) but its authorities never run it to cut costs while the yarn
dying firm has just started their ETP. These all are happening under the nose of the local administration and nothing was done to save the river from the pollution and grabbers so far, they alleged.
They demanded immediate move to ensure the natural flowofthe river water.
Khandakar Nazimuddin, district unit president of Supro, presided the rally.
Among others, Tangail upazila chairman Abdur Rashid Lebu, secretary of district unit Supro Manju Rani Pramanik and senior researcher of Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (BELA) Somnath Lahiri spoke at the rally.
Later, a memorandum was submitted to the minister of water resources through Tangail deputy commissioner in this regard.