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Five brickfields demolished, fined Tk 20 lakh for polluting environment



Health Desk- 11 Dec, 2019: A mobile court on Monday evicted five brickfields and fined the owners Tk 20 lakh at Baluchor union of Sirajdikhan upazila in Mymensingh on charges of polluting the environment.
Kazi Tanjid Ahmed, Executive Magistrate of the Department of Environment, conducted the drive.
The brickfields accused of polluting the environments are – Mama Bhagina Bricks, Molla Bricks, Akash Bricks, KBC Bricks and Mayer Doa Bricks, reports UNB.
The mobile court fined Molla Bricks Tk 8 lakh, Akash Bricks Tk 5 lakh, KBC Bricks Tk 2 lakh and Mayer Doa Bricks Tk 5 lakh. However, Mama Bhagina Bricks were not fined.
Kazi Tanjid Ahmed, Executive Magistrate, informed that these brick kilns are manufacturing bricks through conventional method causing severe environment pollution. Besides, he said, they are manufacturing bricks without any valid papers.
“The brick field named ‘Mama Bhagina’ was dismantled using veku machine. The other brick kilns were demolished through spraying water and by dismantling all the raw materials,” he added.
He also informed that as per the information of Department of Environment, there are a total of 78 brick kilns in the district.  Of them, 69 brickfields are in Sirajdikhan upazila, 5 in Gozaria and 2 each in Sreenagar and Louhajang upazilas.
Only thirty-two of the brickfields of Munshiganj district are legal while the others have no clearance certificate.
The Environment Directorate said that drive will be conducted in other brickfields in phases.

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