Greens demand boundary pillars to identify Buriganga channel

Green activists in Dhaka on Friday demanded setting up boundary pillars identifying the original channel of Buriganga River as per the CS Record. The demand came from a human chain programme organised by Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba), an environmental organisation, in Lalbagh Shahid Nagar embankment in the city. Speaking at the programme, the environmental activists said although the Buriganga plays an important role to 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 by November 30 of the year as per the CS record, but no effective step has yet been taken to implement the order except conducting few eviction drives against the grabbers, they mentioned. 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, according to UNB.