DWASA directed to treat waste water of Hatirjheel

An inter-ministerial meeting Thursday instructed Dhaka WASA for quick implementation of the water treatment plant at Daserkandi to facilitate treatment of waste water of Hatirjheel area.
The meeting also took two other decisions regarding the waste management and law and order maintenance of Hatirjheel at the conference room of the Housing and Public Works Ministry.
Chaired by Minister Eng Mosharraf Hossain, the inter-ministerial coordination meeting on the Hatirjheel and Begunbari canals, was attended by, among others, Housing and Public Works Secretary Golam Rabbani, Rajuk chairman Nurul Huda, local government additional secretary Juena Aziz, Dhaka WASA managing director Taqsem A Khan, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) chief executive officer BM Enamul Haque.
In the meeting, the responsibility of waste management of Hatirjheel has been given to DNCC until a national management authority is formed. Also the Housing and Public Works Ministry will send a letter reminding the Home Affairs Ministry to take necessary steps to set up Hatirjheel police station for ensuring law and order in the area which has presently fallen under four police stations.
Eng Mosharraf said Hatirjheel is not the project of the Housing and Public Works Ministry only. Rather it is one of the most important projects of the country. All the stakeholders involved in the project should consider it as their own asset, he said.
It was informed in the meeting that polluted water is now drained into the Balu river in the absence of a treatment plant of the WASA. Once the plant is set up, the household garbage of the Hatirjheel area can be drained to Daserkandi for treatment. For this, the WASA has completed the design.