Sustainable solutions is needed for Chattogram's waterlogging problem.

Reports indicate widespread damage over the decades

Chattogram city is losing its hills. The 80 or so hills that remain are increasingly under threat from real estate projects of influential businesses.      

What are the relevant agencies doing about it?

Authorities must step up efforts to protect hills from being ravaged

Why has the Forest Department allowed it?

Department of Environment (DoE), Chattogram region, has fined Toma Construction and Company Limited for razing almost 22 million cubic feet of hills from reserve forest area at Lohagara upazila of Chattogram.

The Department of Environment (Chattogram) fines two people Tk 28 lakh for illegally cutting through a portion of a hill, locally known as Greenledge Bank hill, in Askar Dighirpar area in Chattogram.