The Bangladesh Bridge Authority has filled up parts of the Turag River without taking permission from the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and claimed it was done mistakenly by a Chinese contractor.
Munshiganj district authority gave Three Angle Marine Limited the highest ranking on the list of river occupiers in 2019. It was mentioned that their shipbuilding and repair company occupied land adjacent to the Meghna and Fuldi rivers. Two years later, the same district administration reported that the company had never occupied any land of those rivers.
What was considered as a move to save the Buriganga river from untreated tannery waste is now resulting in degradation of another river, the Dhaleshwari.
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