Boundary pillars to identify Buriganga channel demanded

Green activists in the city Friday demanded setting up boundary pillars identifying the original channel of the Buriganga river as per the CS record, reports UNB.
The demand came at a human chain programme organised by Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba), an environmental organisation, at the Lalbagh Shahid Nagar embankment in the city.
Speaking at the programme, the environmental activists said although the Buriganga river plays an important role in the country's economy, the original channel of the river is fast disappearing from the city' s map due to illegal occupation and unchecked pollution.
On June 25, 2009, the High Court ordered the authorities concerned to identify the original channels of rivers surrounding the capital city by November 30 of that year as per the CS record, but no effective steps have yet been taken to implement the order except conducting few eviction drives against the grabbers, they said.
Poba executive general secretary Engr Abdus Sobhan, its joint general secretaries Syed Monwar Hossain and Aslam Khan, Green Mind Society president Amir Hasan and Kristi Parishad president Riaz Uddin, among others, spoke at the programme.
The green activists also demanded cancellation of all the leases of land on the Buriganga, eviction of illegal structures on the bank of the river, restoration of original channel of the Buriganga and setting up effluent treatment plants to check pollution.