'Remove chemical depots from Old Dhaka'
Some environmentalists yesterday reiterated their demand that chemical factories and warehouses be removed from the residential areas in Old Dhaka.
Despite huge public support in favour of the eviction of chemical warehouses, a section of businessmen is conspiring to keep the warehouses in the residential areas, they said.
The section is trying to harass the activists who are conducting drive to remove the warehouses, they added.
The environment activists were speaking at a press conference in Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) auditorium in the city yesterday, said a press release.
Poba chairman Abu Naser Khan, cultural personality and journalist Kamal Lohani, and Green Mind Society's president Ameer Hasan, among others, addressed the conference.
The speakers said although the government directed to remove the chemical depots from Old Dhaka, there is no progress in its implementation.
Some quarters are trying to misguide the government by giving wrong information to continue their chemical businesses in residential areas, they alleged.
Their other demands include ban on producing, marketing, and storing of chemicals in residential areas to ensure public safety, formulation of a policy for producing, marketing, and storing of chemical substances, arrangement of proper training for those who handle chemical warehouses, and establishing a separate industrial area on the outskirts the city for chemical factories and depots.
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