Save rivers, save Dhaka
In pictures: Buriganga blackened
The intense degradation of its water quality has long been detrimental to the environment and the river ecosystem.
Shady realtors choke Turag
There is also Didar's project adjacent to Tamanna Family World amusement park.
People, firm legal action hold the key
Dhaka's lifeline Buriganga River has almost died of pollution and encroachment during the last 20 years, he said, adding that it is an unbearable experience to see the rivers dying.
Lawmakers pledge to save rivers
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury and heads of the parliamentary standing committees on the Ministries of Land, Water Resources and Environment said they have already taken initiatives to evict land grabbers on the rivers and find ways to check dumping industrial wastes into the rivers around the capital.
PM rallies for rivers
Apart from toxic industrial effluents, solid and liquid wastes discharged by the Dhaka City Corporation and Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) have been polluting the rivers around the capital, Mostafizur said.
Grabbers flex court muscles
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) or the district administration could not take legal action against the encroachers following the status quo.
River authorities guilty too
However, recent visits to the embankment revealed that filling up of the river continues on both sides of the BIWTA office.
Bureaucrats go to Turag
Moreover, the cadre officials have also influenced an unplanned bridge, now under construction, over the Turag just to connect their housing project to the Tongi-Ashulia bypass.
Caught in the act
Everything is clearly visible on the other bank as the once mighty Turag, popularly knows as Kohor Daria [big river], has been reduced to hardly 50 feet in width here.
River-filling easier now
The sand and soil carrying cargo boats, locally known as 'bolget', are the main transports operating on these river routes.
Turag inherited!
Hazrat Mukhter was born and brought up in Kamarpara village by the now-reduced Turag. He has many memories about the river.
Time for 'river view' university
Amid encroachment by housing estates, private universities and refuelling stations, the tiny Turag, the major flood flow system of the capital from north to south, is being choked and reduced every day.
Plots in Turag up for sale
The grabber has raised the plinth about 10 feet above the water level which easily draws attention.
Let's rally together
Lend your hands and together we can win a war against these powerful, rich and ruthless river-gobblers.
Turag almost grabbed
Although the AL pledged before the national elections to bring "changes in political culture and prevailing ill practices", no change is apparent in the culture of river grabbing.