The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a dyeing factory and a housing project in Narayanganj and Savar a total of Tk 37 lakh for violating environmental laws.

The dyeing factory Chaiti Composite Ltd in Sonargaon of Narayanganj was fined Tk 22 lakh for polluting the environment and a DoE team fined Ahmed Karim, owner of Nofel Digital City in Savar, Tk 15 for lakh grabbing public land at Senwalia in the upazila, said a press release.

Ahmedabad Tops The List With Maximum Notices

Ahmedabad: Following repeated violations of pollution norms in chemical hotspots, the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued the highest number of show-cause and closure notices in recent times to several clusters of industries. Ahmedabad topped the list with most notices, according to the GPCB’s data. In just two financial years, the GPCB issued 1,680 closure notices to errant factories and nearly 2,118 show-cause notices, for violation of air, water and environment protection Acts respectively.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined Hua Thai Ceramics Industry in Gazipur Tk 20 lakh for pollution due to its operation without effluent treatment plant.

The verdict that fined the amount to the ceramics industry in the district's Hotapara area was issued by the director (Enforcement) of DoE, said a press release of the department.

Under the ownership of a former lawmaker G M Fazlul Haque, the industry was reportedly running without obtaining environment clearance and had no waste treatment plant.

CHENNAI: Seven Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) projects in Tirupur have got the green signal by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, according to Minister for Handlooms and Textiles Dr S Sundararaj.

According to the policy note of handlooms and textiles tabled in the assembly, the government has to set up 18 CETPs at a cost of Rs 742.93 crore following the directions from the Supreme Court and High Court.

AS reported in the press, 'non-allocation of funds' and 'legal complexities' have either stalled or slowed down two projects for protecting the Buriganga River from land grabbers or restoring stretches of it through dredging. It took the government seven years to select a contractor for setting up a plant at Savar for treating 22,000 cubic meters of untreated effluent released into the Buriganga each day by tanneries located at city's Hazaribagh area.

It has been around three years since the High Court ordered industries indiscriminately discharging waste water to install effluent treatment plants (ETPs) within a year. The court on June 10, 2009 also asked the government (industries secretary) to ensure that no new industry is set up without ensuring proper measures to check pollution.

However, the environmental law enacted in 1997 bars such 'untreated' filthy water discharge in waterbodies. It also states that ETPs are a must for those types of industries.

An environmental activist has sought details from State Environment Department whether interest-free loans have been given to Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) in Tirupur as reported in the media.

He asked why so many CETPs were running to test zero liquid discharge (ZLD) systems on trial basis. In a ‘personal notice' sent to the Principal Secretary (Environment and Forests) to State Government,

The High Court yesterday directed the managements of five readymade garment factories at Ashulia in Savar not to dump any waste on agricultural lands and water bodies.

The units on the outskirts of Dhaka are Mozart Knitting and Dyeing Industries, Kajal Garments, Nasirullah Cotton Mills, Apparels Village and Simtex Industries.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a dyeing factory Tk 21 lakh for running the factory by violating DoE orders.

The dyeing factory, Pacific Fiber Corporation, was also asked to stop its operation, says a DoE release.

The factory owner in a written statement informed the DoE on January this year that he stopped production as it had no effluent treatment plant (ETP). But an enforcement team led by Deputy Director of DoE Abdullah Hakkani in a sudden visit yesterday found that the factory was running.