| 15 Thousand Trees are cut in three nights!
An amount of 15 thousand trees are, of 40 acre land, cut to build Shipbreaking yards in Sitakund coastal area near Shonaichori Union by some Shipbreakers that turns the coastal dam in a severe danger to be collapsed. All the trees are cut in last three nights engaging some 400 people.
The local Police have not taken an urgent action regarding this while the department of Forestry intended to file cases against this action. The police said because of High Court order to not make any objection for making shipyards; they are unable to take any action. For the same reason the local government authority also has not gone for any step.
Its informed that three Shipbreakers named Mr. Md. Nurrunnabi Bhuyan, Md. SalaUddin,
Md. Adnan is going to make five ship yards in this 40 acre of land. In last 30 th June the court has given an order after a writ petition from few Shipbreakers that the Police and Department of Forest will not protest for using lands to build Shipyards.
Forestry department said that the dam will be severely affected for cutting these trees and already a part of the dam already elapsed. Source (The Daily Prothom Alo, 5 July 2009) |
