Green Voice Environmental Technology Engineering, Dhaka Polytechnic Institute unit launched a weeklong signature campaign at the institute yesterday to press home their demands for making the rivers free from encroachment and pollution.

A total of 400 students and teachers of different departments at the institute participated in the campaign.

A new initiative of the Ministry of Environment and Forests for cleaning the Ganga
DR. MANMOHAN SINGH Hon'ble Prime Minister

Manish Sirhindi

Large amounts of industrial pollutants being drained into the Western Yamuna Canal (WYC) here have become a source of misery not only for local residents but also for those living downstream of the canal.

Magic mantra?: The Ganga flows in Haridwar
JAIPUR: After the advocates of the much talked about National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) ascribing the mandate the United Progressive Alliance received in the Lok Sabha elections to the unique scheme, it is now the turn of those who have taken up the cause of the Ganga to make a similar claim.

Smriti Kak Ramachandran

He promises to raise the problem during Cabinet meetings

neglect: Continuing flow of effluents into water bodies has prompted Minister for Public Works and Law Durai Murugan to suggest invocation of National Security Act or Goondas Act against those responsible for it.

KARUR: Stringent criminal penal action will be taken against those found discharging polluting substances into the river systems and water sources in the State, according to PWD Minister Durai Murugan.

The Karnaphuli River, considered as the lifeline to business activities for both the hill people and the flatlanders in the country's far east region, is dying due to mindless encroachment, dumping of industrial and clinical wastes, and lack of maintenance.

Cries to protect river Sal from decay reverberated on the banks of the river at Khareband on World Environment Day as concerned activists and residents teamed up to save the once lifeline of Salcete.