The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday stopped the unauthorised construction of a bridge on the Balu river at Mashkul in Khilkhet by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).

The DoE also fined the Rajuk-hired construction firm Tk 5.5 lakh for harming the river ecology and ordered to remove within a week 45,500 cubic feet of earth from both banks of the river.

Rajuk, the city planner, fi