Why power plant near Sundarbans?
HC asks govt to explain
The High Court yesterday asked the government to explain in two weeks why it should not be directed not to set up the proposed 1,300 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat near the Sundarbans.
The ruling came following a writ petition that says if the plant is set up at Sapmari-Katakhali Mouja of Rampal, the world's largest mangrove forest and its biodiversity will be damaged. Sheikh Siddique Ahammed, organising secretary of environmentalist organisation Save the Sundarbans, filed the petition on January 31 as public interest litigation.
Secretaries to the ministries of planning, environment and forest, energy and mineral resources, and land, the director general of environment department, the chairman of Power Development Board, the deputy commissioner of Bagerhat and project director of the proposed plant have been made respondents to the rule.
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