7 ship-breaking yards fined
The Department of Environment (DoE) in Sitakunda upazila fined yesterday seven ship-breaking yards Tk 36.50 lakh for polluting the environment.
DoE Director General Monwarul Islam and Director Zafar Alam led an enforcement team and penalised the yards for violating environment protection act 1995 (revised in 2010) and realised Tk 36.50 lakh.
Jahanabad Ship-breaking Yard was fined Tk 50,000; Jamuna Steel Tk 5 lakh; Tania Enterprise Tk 10 lakh; Siko Steel Tk 10 lakh; Mishmak Ship-breaking Industries Tk 5 lakh; AMN Steel Tk 1 lakh; and KR Steel Tk 5 lakh.
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