The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Water experts at an opinion exchange meeting yesterday emphasised the need for involving local people to save the Buriganga river from dying.

Addressing the function, they also demanded protection of the river at its upstream branches from pollution.

Otherwise, the experts apprehended that the consequences of wiping up the river Buriganga would be serious and the Dhaka city would be unfit for living.

Chairman of Task Force on Buriganga protection Inam Ahmed Chowdhury placed different recommendations at the opinion exchange meeting held at Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council (BARC) auditorium.

The meeting was also addressed, among others, by Director General of Water Development Board HS Mozaddad Al Faruq, Vice Chancellor of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology Dr M Fazlul Bari, former DU teacher Prof Dr KB Sajjadur Rashid, Hashem Sufi and journalist Taufiq Imroj Khalidi.