Relocating factories
Tawfiq Ali's report on this important matter, published by you on 8 November, is the current headache for Metropolitan Dhaka City. The report related is to the growing environment pollution of the city. The report also clearly points out the illegal activities of a number of public bodies and utilities in permitting the location of the factories in Dhaka city, in the first place! The vice president of Gulshan Society has stated that at least one hundred factories are located in the Gulshan residential area for which we the residents here have to suffer the most. It deprives us of water and power facilities which are usurped by these illegal factories!
To reiterate his point, he also states; which I quote: "An unauthorised industrial unit has been set up in connivance with DCC, Rajuk, DESA, WASA and Titas Gas officials". However, I feel that he has missed out the
Department of Industries, and the Directorate of Labour; whose clearances are also needed. I know this, as our builder had to get all these, (excluding the Industries and Labour Depts.) plus the Department of Civil Aviation's clearance for constructing an eight-storied building in Gulshan located more than three miles away from ZIA runways!
Why then are we now saying, as stated in the report, that the industrialist should pay for shifting from the illegal location when they have obtained all necessary clearances? First the real criminals, who gave the permission, should pay for the shifting costs. Only then may be we can sue the industrialists, as accessories to the illegal deed.
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