Three and a half years into the High Court order to ban single-use plastic products in the coastal districts, there has been no visible progress towards implementation.
Department of Environment (DoE) sued 16 people including the general secretary of Cox's Bazar district Chhatra League and a central Jubo League member for encroaching into the Bakkhali River recently.
After damaging two canals by building dams and extracting their sands, a local syndicate linked to the ruling party is now tearing apart a wildlife sanctuary by scooping out sand from it and topsoil from adjacent arable land in Dulahazara union of Chakaria upazila in Cox’s Bazar.
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