Brick kilns

Brick kilns

Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan speaking as the chief guest at a meeting held today at the Department of Environment (DoE) headquarters in Agargaon, Dhaka. 21 September, 2025. Photo: TBS

No brick kilns will be permitted to operate in Savar: Rizawana

Mobile courts, involving all relevant government agencies, will be deployed to shut down illegal operations

During the operations, 11 brick kilns were shut down, and closure orders were issued for two more. Photo: Courtesy

DoE fines illegal brick kilns Tk1.14 crore in nationwide crackdown

Photo: TBS

7 unauthorised brick kilns fined Tk41 lakh in Dhaka's Dhamrai

At a meeting on 19 Sept with officials of the environment department and the Bangladesh Brick Manufacturing Owners Association (BBMOA) at the Secretariat. Photo: Courtesy

No new brick kilns allowed, 3,491 illegal ones to be closed: Environment adviser

Representational image. Photo: Collected

Air pollution: 7 vehicles, 6 brick kilns fined over Tk20 lakh

File photo of the High Court division building of the Supreme Court in Dhaka. Photo: Collected

Demolish illegal brick kilns in Dhaka, adjacent districts in 14 days: HC

Despite legal barriers that were put in place as early as 1989, brick kilns have continued to multiply, encroaching into agricultural zones and environmentally sensitive areas in Bangladesh. Photo: Mumit M

The hollow promise of hollow blocks by 2025

Ctg admin demolishes illegal brick kiln in Rangunia

Ctg admin demolishes illegal brick kiln in Rangunia

Photo: TBS

Environment ministry hosts meeting to tackle pollution by brick kilns

File photo

'Air pollution by brick kilns causes over 6,000 premature adult deaths in Bangladesh yearly'

The High Court of Bangladesh. Picture: Collected

HC summons five DCs for failing to demolish illegal brick kilns

Dhailla Beel in Chattogram’s Satkania upazila has more than 50 brickfields which turned the majority of the beel area uncultivable. The photo was taken on Monday from the Keranihat area of the upazila. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin

Brickmakers eating up a Chattogram crop field

Picture: Noor-A-Alam/TBS

Fraudulent syndicate posing as DoE threatens brick kilns, hospitals