Paper mill sealed, fined Tk 31 lakh
Department of Environment (DoE), in a drive yesterday, sealed a paper mill and fined it Tk 31 lakh at Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj for polluting the Shitalakkhya river by discharging liquid wastes in it.
Lina Paper Mills Ltd has been running its activities for the last 11 years without clearance certificate from DoE and effluent treatment plant (ETP), said a statement of DoE signed by its Director (monitoring and enforcement) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury.
DoE officials detected that the factory has discharged 2 lakh cubic meter liquid wastes into the river over the last 11 years, destroying its ecosystem.
In a separate drive, DoE evicted two polythene factories, seized 4 metric tonnes of equipments and fined Tk 2.5 lakhs at Tongi in Gazipur.
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