NARSINGDI, Apr 9 (BSS): Most of the rivers in Narsingdi are facing threat to their existence as they have already lost their flow and navigation.
Once there were boats, launches and steamers in the rivers carrying goods and passengers from one district to other districts. Now it has become as dream, locals said. Continuous dumping of garbage, wastes of local industries and absence of dredging operation, the rivers bed filled with silt and rising up day by day. Besides, a group of land grabbers occupied the wet beds of the rivers built unauthorized structures on and in the rivers.
The rivers have lost their fishing resources due to recession of water flow for continuous dumping of wastes of local factories. About 100 dyeing factories and textile industries were set up on the bank of river Old Brahmaputra at Nasingdi sadar upazila and Shitalakkha under Polash upazila are spilling untreated toxic and chemical contaminated water into the rivers destroying its ecosystem.
Rivers around Narsingdi losing navigability
FE Team | Published: April 10, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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