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8 vehicles, 6 institutions, 6 brick kilns fined for air pollution in Dhaka
The Department of Environment on Thursday fined eight vehicles, six institutions, and six brick kilns Tk 20.57 in a mobile court drive for polluting the air in Dhaka
The Department of Environment on Thursday fined eight vehicles, six institutions, and six brick kilns Tk 20.57 in a mobile court drive for polluting the air in Dhaka .
The drives, led by the DoE’s Monitoring and Enforcement Wing, were conducted in Dhaka’s Manik Mia Avenue, Dhanmondi, Khilgaon, and Dhamrai areas as part of a campaign against environmental pollution.
A total of Tk 20 lakh in fines has been collected from six illegal brick kilns in a mobile court drive in the Dhamrai area of Dhaka.
Meanwhile, Tk 12,000 was collected as fines from 8 vehicles for polluting the air by releasing black smoke into the air in Dhanmondi.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, with the aim to strengthen the environmental conservation campaign, including control of air pollution and noise pollution, initiated a month-long mobile court drive on Wednesday.