The Directorate of Environment on Monday fined eight establishments Tk 2.5 lakh for the first time in Chittagong for sound pollution.

This paper explores local environmental problems at both the household and neighbourhood levels in Chittagong, based on a broad spectrum household survey. The survey shows that households in poor areas are very exposed to localized environmental problems and thus necessarily develop a wide range of coping strategies around the living space. Yet poorer households are less likely to express their concerns about neighbourhood environmental issues, despite

World Bank (WB) approved three projects worth US $ 327 million: the Chittagong Water Supply Improvement and Sanitation Project, second phase of Empowerment and Livelihood Improvement "Nuton Jibon" Project, and the additional financing for the Municipal Services Project.

These projects are aimed at empowering the poor, improving service delivery and enhancing development outcomes in Bangladesh,

The government will import 300 CNG-run buses to operate them on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway with a view to reducing air pollution, State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr Hasan Mahmud said at a workshop in the city yesterday.

He said the government has emphasised mass transportation system to reduce traffic congestion as well as pollution in the country.

Dr Hasan was addressing the in

Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas said the government has adopted a Taka 122 crore master plan for the development and expansion of fish cultivation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region.

The Department of Environment (DoE) here yesterday sued three more ship-breaking yards for polluting environment and not responding to its notices of clearance.

With this, seven ship-breaking yards have been sued within two weeks.

The DoE investigator Saiful Ashrab filed the cases with Sitakunda Police Station and the Environment Court.

The yards are Rahman Ship Yard and Mahin Enterprise

AGARTALA, April 16

The forest department Monday night filed a case accusing 200 people of felling trees in the coastal green belt of Ghoramara of Sonaichhari under Sitakunnda upazila in Chittagong.

To measure impact of ecological change in Chittagon Hill Tracts after the installation od dam Kaptai in 1955 on siltation, Bangladesh Water Development Board has conducted siltation study several times from 1978.

Three water treatment projects undertaken by Chittagong WASA at an estimated cost of Tk 1200 crore have been in a limbo for the last one year, but the authorities concerned have moved to take another water supply project.

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