The National River Protection Commission has initially completed the list of rivers in the country, which is 1,800, and the length is 22,000 km.
The list is going to be opened to everyone in a seminar on the occasion of World River Day on Sunday. The river protection commission has planned to publish the names of those rivers in the form of gazette and at the same time, we want to conclude the definition of the river.
Several officials of the River Protection Commission said that if they can be published in the form of gazette, the path to save and protect these rivers will be somewhat smooth, they said that the information of some more rivers is being checked. There is also objection to some rivers that are in the list of river protection commissions. If those objections are settled, the number of rivers will be more.
It is known that earlier on August 10, the River Protection Commission published a scrap list of all the rivers in the country. The number of rivers and rivers in that list was 907. The newspaper also called for opinions and objections on the list. The commission settled those opinions and objections and settled the list of 1,800. Some more objections have not been settled.
The list of rivers in the country has been debated for a long time. The Water Development Board has mentioned one of its publications in 2011, the number of rivers and rivers is 405. Some of the river researchers claim that the river has a water resources ministry working on the river. And the Ministry of Shipping and the waterways have not done the actual number of rivers in the river.
The company claims that the National River Protection Commission has also the authority to fix the exact number of rivers in the country, the National River Protection Commission on February 3, 2019. In this way, the court has also mentioned all the rivers of the country as a living being. Manjur Ahmed Chowdhury told Jugantar that the list of rivers has been prepared with the help of the local administration, which is marked as rivers in the CS records, but the Jatga river will be marked as rivers.
He also said that the same river has different names in different districts, while more than one district has the same name, we have named the district and the river in the name of the river. Manzoor Ahmed Chowdhury said that the work on the river list will not stop, it is an ongoing process.
Moveable waterways: According to the river protection commission, the country Although there are 22,000 km of waterways, the number of boats suitable for navigation is one-third. According to the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), the country has a waterway. The length of the engine-driven boats is 4,800 km in the dry season and 7,600 km during the monsoon season.
Since the formation of the Awami League government, two thousand kilometers of waterways have been made suitable for movement through dredging.
However, the company's several reports say that the river is being occupied and the river banks are being occupied and the river banks are being filled and the factories are emerging in an unplanned manner. The river is being destroyed by the river, which is destroying the environment of the river, and the most positive information is that the river is getting narrower during the dry season.
BIWTA Chairman Commodore Arif Ahmed Mustafa told Jugantar that the two challenges in front of us are river encroachment and pollution. If river pollution is not possible, navigation will not develop and the width of the river is decreasing due to encroachment.
In response to a question, he said, "We are taking action only if the port area is occupied by the river, but if it is occupied outside the port border, we have nothing to do." If we have permission to build the foreshore of the river, we have to take approval for the construction of the buildings. We could have kept an eye on the poison then.
