A mobile court of the Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined three mills and industries Tk 60 lakh for polluting the river Louhajang in the sadar upazila.
Penalised are Alauddin Textile Mills in Khudirampur and Universal Yarn Dyeing and Supti Chemical Works in Tangail BISIC area.
The mobile court fined Alauddin Textile Tk 30 lakh for not setting up effluent treatment plant (ETP) properly and polluting the adjacent Louhajang river. It also directed the mill authorities to keep their production shut until the ETP is properly set up.
Universal Yarn Dyeing was fined Tk 22 lakh for operating without the ETP and polluting the river and for not having the DoE clearance certificate renewed.
The mobile court fined Supti Chemical Works Tk 7 lakh as the industrial unit was found running without ETP and polluting the river. Supti authorities were also directed to keep its production shut till setting up of the ETP.
Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, director (monitoring and enforcement) of the DoE, led the drive. Mahbubur Rahman, an assistant director of the DoE, and Hasan Imam, acting assistant director, Tangail, accompanied the team, among others.
Source : The Daily Star
