No environmental clearance: Premier Cement factory in Munshiganj fined Tk2 lakh
A mobile court today (1 January) imposed a fine of Tk2 lakh on Premier Cement's factory in Munshiganj for operating without an environmental clearance certificate.
Ifti Hasan Imran, special magistrate for environment and senior judicial magistrate under the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, imposed the fine during a drive at the factory in the Char Muktarpur area of Sadar upazila this afternoon.
The special magistrate fined the factory's General Manager Md Ataul Gani Tk1 lakh for operating the establishment without environmental clearance, Tk50,000 for littering and another Tk50,000 for keeping construction materials in the open, said Zakir Hossain, acting bench assistant of the special magistrate court.
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If the fine is not paid the general manager has to serve two years in prison, he added.
