DoE fines Ctg dockyard Tk 1 crore

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram fined Karnaphuli Drydock Tk one crore for damaging the environment by building vessel at its dockyard at Anwara upazila without any approval yesterday.

The DoE slapped the dockyard with the fine in a hearing held at its office at Foy’s Lake of the port city.

Mohammad Moazzem Hossain, regional director of Chattogram DoE told The Daily Star that the Karnaphuli Drydock has been building vessels for the last one and a half years, without obtaining necessary permit from the DoE.

“In our field visit we found the dockyard used at least 10,000 square feet space to build at least 29 vessels in the last one and a half years damaging life in the river close to the yard,” he said.

The damage they rendered was assessed to be Tk one crore, so DoE slapped the dockyard with the fine, he added.

Md Nazrul Islam, additional general manager of Karnaphuli Drydock told The Daily Star that they obtained site clearance from DoE.

He  said they did not know about the environmental clearance.

“We will submit necessary documents to obtain environmental clearance soon,” the official added.