A committee will be formed within a week consisting of stakeholders who will be responsible to look for storage of 20 banned chemicals, DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon said. “Monitoring is not possible by the city corporation alone; all the agencies concerned have to assist in this exercise. We want to renew trade licenses of chemical factories, but not to those that store chemicals hazardous to health or susceptible to fire,” said Khokon. The DSCC mayor said the executive magistrates will take action on any business, stores, warehouses or houses that stores flammable material which are threats to life and property. To curb pollution in Dhaka, the government has plans to move all chemical factories outside Dhaka to a isolated village in Keraniganj.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 12, 2019 14:37 UTC