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Paper mills, brickfields fined for pollution

16 October 2011, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

The Department of Environment (DoE) in a drive at Feni yesterday fined four industrial companies Tk 9.13 lakh for polluting the environment and agricultural land with untreated wastes. The companies are Shatarupa Paper Mills and Shuktara Paper Mills in BSCIC Industrial Town and Modina Bricks and Kalirhat Bricks in Fulgazi. None of them had environmental clearance, said DoE Director (enforcement) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury.