![]() ![]() The authorities concerned should exchange views with the people of river surrounding areas before finalising any project, he added. Inamul Haque told the UNB that some mega projects of river digging failed to protect public interest as many rivers had been excavating unnecessary. But BIWTA ignored it.įormer director general of Water Resources Planning Organisation, also a renowned environmentalist, engineer M. He also said that they proposed to include a launch owner and a journalist for transparency and accountability in dredging activities. Actually waterways are not being restored."īesides, many routes from Dhaka to several destinations have been abandoned during the last one decade, Badol alleged. It's impossible to fulfil the target by 2025 due to this slow pace of river digging.īodiuzzaman Badal, senior vice president of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport (passenger carrier) Association told the UNB, "River digging and dredging have been done on paper. However, not all waterways have undergone necessary navigability development. ![]() Besides, the transparency and accountability of the organisation in river digging and removal of silt have come under question due to two types of information from the two departments.Īccording to the sources concerned, from 2017 to June this year, around 2,400km more of defunct waterways have been excavated. On the other hand, the River Safety and Traffic Management Department of the same organisation said that during 2015-16 fiscal year, the vessels operated on 6,000km waterways in the monsoon and 4,347km in the dry season.Īnother letter of this department in 2017 said that the length of navigable waterways has increased by 547km due to special attention of the government.Ī review of the above statistics shows that BIWTA had no success in restoring abandoned waterways in the first six years.
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