Meghna up for grabs?
A part of Meghna river on the left of the Daudkandi bridge on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway is being filled up with sand. The grabbing is taking place some two to three hundred meters into the river from its bank at the bridge's Daudkandi end. It seems these two to three hundred meters of the river will gradually be filled up. I would like to draw the attention of the Ministry of Environment to this act of river grabbing. Nowhere are our rivers safe in Bangladesh.
In Dhaka near the Rampura TV Station, there is a bridge on a canal. It is a wide canal, perhaps it was once a river. A large section of this canal to the west of this bridge is being filled up with sand. The city corporation may look into the matter.
Faruque Hasan
Dhaka
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