Savar dyeing factory loses DoE certificate
The Department of Environment (DoE) cancelled the environment clearance certificate of Birds A-and-Z Ltd, a dyeing factory at Baipail, Savar, and fined it Tk 25 lakh yesterday, as it continued to pollute the river Turag despite being warned six times since 2007.
The dyeing factory was set up in 2007 and since then it has been polluting the Turag violating the environment laws. DoE Director (monitoring and enforcement) Mohammed Munir Chowdhury led a drive this February and found the factory still polluting the river.
Before the February drive, different teams of the department inspected it six times between 2006 and 2011 and found it continuing pollution. The factory was never fined beforehand and given chance each time to set up effluent treatment plant, said a press release.
However Nazmus Shariar Sadat Anawar, managing director of the factory, yesterday again prayed for exemptions, which the DoE did not accept.
Meanwhile, Md Tabibur Rahman, executive engineer of Pabna Paurasava, was fined Tk 1 lakh yesterday for pouring hot bitumen into the river Isamati. The DoE served a notice and penalised him after The Daily Star published a photo feature on the issue on April 23.
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