Hundreds of farmers of village Baldhara in Manikganj staged demonstration on Saturday
demanding stop of building further brick kilns on their croplands.
They brought out a procession and held rally in protest at building brick kilns on their croplands.
The speakers at the rally said that the environment of Baldhara areas was being imbalanced due to making a large numbers of brick kilns on crop lands.
The production of crops was reduced in one third and the environment was being polluted, they said. The people especially children and elderly were becoming sick.
The speakers said that 14 brick field owners made 22 brick kilns within two square kilometre areas of the Baldhara union.
The farmers said that they would not give their paddy field for making the brick field.
'We will give life. But we will not give our paddy land', said Abdul Karim, owner of 2 bighas of land.
The farmers alleged that Abdul Jolil of village Ramkantapur had built two brick fields on
crop land at village Baldhara. He was grabbing neighbouring croplands to construct brick kiln, they said.
Member of Ward No. 4 of Baldhara Union Parishad, Mohammad Ibrahim, said that the environment was destroying for building brick kilns one after another.
Brick kiln owner Abdul Jolil said that he had certificate of environment directorate and license of BST. 'I am not constructing more brick kilns,' Jolil said.
The farmers lodged complaint to local administration. They also sent the copies to deferent ministries and environment directorate.
When contacted, deputy director of environment directorate in Manikganj, said that Abdul Jolil had two certificates for two brick kilns in the name of SOFUR-1 and SOFUR-2.
When contacted, deputy commissioner of Manikganj, Munshi Shahabuddin Ahmed, said that they would take action according to rules.
On the other side, farmers of village Solondi under Manikganj Sadar upazila are also protesting the planning of making a brickfield on their crop lands.
Source : New Age
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