‘Don’t set up landfill in Sandwip colony’

Locals have urged the authorities concerned to refrain from setting up a landfill for waste disposal at Fatehabad Sandwip Colony in Dakshin Pahartali under ward-1 of Chattogram.

They made the demand at a rally organised on Fatehabad City Corporation Degree College grounds yesterday afternoon.

CCC purchased five acres of land in the colony last month to set up a landfill while purchase of another 45 acres in the area was underway for the same purpose. According to CCC, at least 3,000 tonnes of waste is produced in the city's 41 wards daily.

Speakers at the rally said Sandwip Colony, located at the foot of the hill, has a scenic natural beauty with the Institute of Forestry and Environment of Chittagong University in the north, and the Chattogram Cantonment in the south.

Setting up a landfill site will pollute the environment and jeopardise road communication to south Chattogram.

Former ward councillor Zafar Alam Chowdhury, CU Professor Ali Arshad Chowdhury and Ward-1 Awami League general secretary Tanveer Ahmed were present at the event.