71-km human chain formed to save Turag
UNB
Environmentalists formed a 71-km-long human chain on the banks of the Turag River yesterday morning demanding an end to pollution and grabbing of the river, reports UNB. The Turag flows across Tagnail, Gazipur and Dhaka districts, and is linked to the Jamuna river system through the Lohajong River in Tangail. It joins the Buriganga River near Mirpur in the capital. The Environment Department has already declared it an ecologically critical area (ECA). The human chain was organised by different environmental groups, led by Bangladesh Nodi Banchao Andolan (Save the River Movement, Bangladesh), to press home their four-point demand to save the Turag. Through the human chain, the activists demanded to free the Turag from illegal grabbing, and setting up environment friendly industry to ensure pollution free water in the river. They formed the human chain at 15 different places, including Kaliakoir Bazar, Kadda Bazar, Tongi Bridge, Kamarpara Bridge near Ijtema ground area, Mirzapur Bazar in Sadar upazila of Gazipur district, Ashulia, Amin Bazar Bridge and Basila Bridge in Savar upazila of Dhaka district, along the banks of the river in the morning.
