Tag: Rajuk
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Bangladesh’s real estate and housing firms big polluters
Realtors real violators L-R: Filling low-lying wetlands and destroying aquatic life and ecology. Not following the directives related to the surroundings of a site including keeping open space. Photo: STAR (left), writer (right) Published in The Daily Star on November 10, 12 Even though the Department of Environment ‘DoE’ and Rajuk have been penalizing real…
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Save Savar from further environmental degradation
L-R: Brickfields in Ashulia burn firewood and emit carbon in the air. Discharge from industrial establishment at Bank Town polluting adjacent waterbody. Click for more photos The daily Star May 26, 2012 Environment Probir Kumar Sarker Over the recent years, Savar is experiencing immense pressure of new industrial, commercial and residential establishments. But most of…
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Demolition of shanties along Gulshan Lake
State-run housing authority RAJUK started dismantling the structures built illegally along the lake in Dhaka’s posh Gulshan area in line with the High Court’s order of January 25 to demarcate the lake and free it from illegal encroachers. Monday, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 6, 2012. On the first day, some 120 shanties of the slum along…
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Construction sites ‘danger’ for pedestrians
Two-year-old Yamin was waiting at the entrance of their house at Adabor for another child who went to a nearby shop to buy him a chocolate when a wood fell from the seventh-floor of an adjacent under-construction building. A part of the wood having a nail in it hit the back of his head. Yamin…
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2.5 lakh buildings in 3 cities at earthquake risk
read the story on bdnews24.com Around 250,000 buildings in the three major cities of Bangladesh—Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet—are extremely vulnerable to earthquakes, according to a recent survey. Some 142,000 among 180,000 buildings in Chittagong; 24,000 out of 52,000 in Sylhet; and 78,000 out of 326,000 buildings in Dhaka were detected as risky. “The survey results…
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