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Rapid urbanisation is increasing the demand for sand in Bangladesh, leaving livelihoods threatened and riverbeds ruined.
Uncontrolled and often illegal extraction of sand and rocks from riverbeds is a long-standing problem and is putting surrounding farmlands at risk.
Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury spoke to farmers in the district of Sirajgonj, in north-central Bangladesh.
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So what’s the problem with illegal sand mining?Please explain.
river bodies dont follow a same path if its full of lot of water which causes flirt and damages villagers crops and houses
@moksh pandit but when you compensate the ppl,, then its oké,, right.? … its al about money..!
You will understand the problem once you get out of call center scams.
This illegal businessmen related to government ruling party….such a shame for this Country
To the point!
ZZZZZZZZZZ UrbaniZZZZZZZZation
Negligence of duty and the dominant persons in this area are responsible for this.
Always negative report about bangladesh.
Unsubscribed !!!
@Utkarsh Raj Rendi here! 😂 far more better than capitalist controlled media because Qatari govt doesn’t have any agendas because its geopolitical importance and interest is less. How a rendi will understand who watches Godi Media? 😂
@Mahim Jr Aunty
@Utkarsh Raj mallu aunty 😂
Learn to accept criticism it’s life, sometimes constructive criticism is good for you.
@Be Humble but it is wrong.
Shame for BD.
There is no one to watch!!
Only big projects will be looted.
probably this is the punishment for supporting evil person like shabir ally
Alzazeera now is doing propaganda to stop Bangladesh economic growth…… How about making video on teesta Alzazeera? Or how Bangladesh economy is booming reports… Huh…
From Bangladesh
They like to downplay South Asian countries .
@d the best agreed bro
@Mashrur Ahnaf you guys have good gdp even though with high population and limited land and resources . Still these guys think we are inferior to them. Anyway who minds it . Let them think anything they want
You guys are unbelievable. This is what’s wrong with nationalism
@Feisal did u r u nationalism made Bangladesh grow? If yes I will accept otherwise keep it shut…. Coz I see the difference from where we started at 1971 and where r we do in 2020…..
why u always show negative news about Bangladesh…. Bangladesh is one the greatest nation in the world…..
love frm india……..
Want more attention by global media for the world 2nd manufacturing country of the global exports. Please report more to help us live.
are you insane? do you want to defame your own country? what will you get by defaming your own country?
@Md.Mahbubur Rahman sorry sir, it’s not trying to defame, it’s a try for some living. If the first world country live with our products, they should take some liabilities too.
Extracting sand??? Isn’t Bangladesh going to disapear due to the rising sea level allready? These rich people are insane
Let’s end capitalism as we know it before limitless greed kills us all.
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Mr tanvir chowder u always focus on poor quality news don’t know where you get this types of idea 💡
He always focus on Poor People whom Government ignore.
What he is doing a great job .I like him from kerala India
@xfile hmm 🤔 yes he always representing
@Ferdus Ahmed He is not lying. Where is your problem?
Lol, he should show the news like BTV do . Always batabi lebur bumper folon ha ha ha
Idiot sand Mafia
as a bangladeshi, thanks to Al Jazeera
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@Tsunauticus IV are you sick brother?
Take some from uae
What can suffice the hunger
Bangladesh will face adverse climate effects within 2050.
Bangladesh is doomed to drown so why not make some money dredging sand
Our government has left us with no options I think is time we start investing on ourselves
he’s really the best I have been trading with him for months now and I must say he is really the best
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I really need someone to guide me through
I already recommended 4 of my friends to him and they are making huge profit Mt Ben is really a game changer
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His availability is on WhatsApp
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Thanks Al Jazeera.
Whole Bangladesh is same problem people cannon say anything because influential politician and on the other hand police. Bribes are everywhere in bangladesh spreading day by day very worse than before.
As an Indian I am happy about Bangladesh economic development but at the same time illegal sand mining is having consequences
In India too it’s a big problem
Now builders are shifting towards finely crushed stone as replacement for sand
@Aarohi You saying this because you don”t know about BD. the emerging economy you mention , is not from inside development, rather from hard working inhuman labor in Arab countries. Govt is just lavishly depending on foreign remittance. no step is taken to make skillful people. there nothing like healthcare here. oh you probably know Bd people go to India for medical. Do you know why they need to go there? or what are happening to the people unable to go to india? and also there is no police service for poor or middle class people.
@Bangladesh Watchman so remittances? I thought Bangladesh had good record in manufacturing textile m
@Aman Rishi not textile. BD is an importer of textile esp from china. you may mean garments. garments have good contribution but remittance is way bigger. both exploit the poor in inhumane way. BD govt should make more skillful labor and that would make life more easy. but unfortunately there is no such step.
@Aman Rishi Don’t mind him, he is just an anti-Bangladeshi frustrated crook.
@Bangladesh Watchman Can you Pakistanis kindly leave Bangladesh alone?
All people are hostaged by government.
Nope by people who follow culture and tradition when they start making money while the poor live normal easy and marry easily and don’t waste time either of themselves or start going in sins easily become they know there limits.
@ㄚ卂ᗪ卂乇丂匚ㄖ乃卂尺 what are you saying?
Bangladesh just need to control the population.
@pm amOnly you said? 😂
Well,even India has 1% and china has 0.5%. Check out the rank of Bangladesh in population density, it’s 6th in the world. Also it has highest density among most populous countries. Well,why don’t you search a bit yourself before pulling out the trigger.
@Michi Braun Keine Ahnung wovon redest du. Its an absurd comparison. Germans were aggressor in German invasion of WW2. Why they should flee? Respect German did rebuilt after being punished accordingly. But Germans fled to America Chile or East Asia even recently to Hungary. You failed to make your claim true as you are talking here and there
@lost world I thought you would share a link but yet put the burden on me. Bangladesh has beaten India not only in population growth index but in every sector. Do not believe this just ask a fellow Indians or google it. Making claim is easy but proving is difficult right?
@pm am Yes, Bangladesh has beaten India, as it has higher population growth than India. Congrats. So dumb persons come to argue these days without having any knowledge.
@lost world you are the one without knowledge. The total fertility rate in Bangladesh is around 2 /2.1 that means the population will decline in 30 years time. India , Pakistan all have higher total fertility rates meaning they will continue to grow indefinitely. 2.1 is the replacement level.
India is also suffering from this same problem.
So we understand this
Corruption!
Very good Report
The local mp’s have a hand in this, they are the ones doing this, corruption at it’s best.
Love you aljazeera tv from Bangladesh
With the levels of corruption within the government I’m surprised it can’t even operate
Globalists don’t care but they “care” about climate change if they can profit from it.
Some say this issue cause more damage then we can image on a global base
I personally hate Al jajeera🙂✌️
Cause they show false news about Rohingyas been shifting in vashanchar islands…….yup corruption is in you…. Itz in us.. Itz everywhere….
Itz our duty to erase it.
Give respect to the country who gave shelter 1.5 million Rohingya refugees…. And try to encounter miyanmar who has done mass killings
😂😂😂 submerged bangladesh 2050
Hahaha why it’s funny
Says a Pakistani lmao. We have the Delta Plan unlike you guys. Enjoy watching Sindh drown because you guys are too poor to fight climate change.
@Jill Sandwich i am an indian chutyai . Thank us for making you an independent nation .
@Ali Zaidi Lol your comment history clearly says you’re Pakistani, no wonder you guys are known for your lies 🤣
@Jill Sandwich just like your ancestors because they were pakistani as well😂😂
Sand mining is a problem in all fast growing countries like Bangladesh India and China. I think this problem is there in all developing Asian countries.
Didn’t even explain what they are moving sand around to divert river.
Get sand from the many deserts!
@P F but they can use desert sand to replace the river sand extracted from them, right? or is that a stupid idea? lol
@ronnel acido yes.
@ronnel acido Hmmm… Good question… 🤔
@P F I just realised this too, after checking your comment, thanks. Still, with man’s knowledge, we must be able to find a concrete alternative, using other plentiful raw materials.
Tesla and others have kickstarted the human race away from century old combustion engines, our skyscrapers and infrastructure need new DNA.
@ronnel acido If you already don’t bother to pay for extracting the sand in a legal way there also won’t be any money to get any sand to replace.
The other part of it is of course is that the extraction destroys something that you also have to rebuild. Maybe a top layer of soil so it can be used for farming or other plants to stabilize the sand so the river doesn’t wash it right away.
Either way that is a cost that’s usually not even up to debate. But at a minimum they ought to buyout the villagers so that they can build a new future somewhere else.
Urbanisation around the globe, will drain sand ressources.
the only way bangladesh can save herself is by joining pakistan inshallah
Lmao Bangladesh has a larger economy than Pakistan + Afghanistan + Nepal COMBINED despite being as tiny as Sindh. Our reserves are 4x of yours and you have the audacity to say you guys can save us? Lmao there’s a better chance of Pakistan getting donations from Bangladesh than that.
Look at our gdp per capita and our currency.Why should we join with you?.Your economy is worst in whole subcontinent.Look at our development we made padma bridge from our own resource.We have so many construction going on.
@Junied Tazrian ooh my god I love how you make fun of them. They think only think in islam is politics and jihad . They lost their faith. They were busy in terrorising while bangladesh was busy in devoloping.
@d the best listen I am also muslim but jihad doesn’t mean hurting others.Some people thing jihad means attack on non muslim but that’s not true.Uneducated muslim think that jihad means attack on others.I don’t think they ever in their read holy quran with meaning and summary.Islam is beautiful religion.Some people take their religion for political reason just like India Pakistan.But look at us.We Bangladeshi are muslim but here terrorism is hardly ever happen. we just want peace.We have no conflict with India or Myanmar.That’s why our economy is booming.
@Junied Tazrian keep it up 👍👍
Sahara desert is full of sand
You legit gonna use that same for building.
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
It sounds really weird but there is a serious sand shortage in the whole world.
You don’t own Mother Earth. She owns YOU.
Corruption!
Every country facing same problem.
Corrosive to environment
Bangladesh our brother. From pakistan.we are one and will be.
@BOOM BD i agree
That’s impossible to reply All jazeera interview because those officials are illiterate
Indians, amirite?
Thanks a lot for such report on world media.
We finna be Arabs with all this sand
That sand isn’t even of any good
For so called free market….
Bangladesh government is kuttar baccha
right
Tnx and love from Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is poor country soon the country will disappear from earth due to climate change
@BOOM BD india is slum country
Right. Illegal are available in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is more developed than pakistan.
Also India
@Karif jr more per capita than India but not more developed than India
@Karif jr which Bangladeshi city will you put for comparing Mumbai,delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata,seperately
Dhaka is unable to compite anyone of the above
Freedom peace and Blessings 🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞
I heard even Maldives want to buy sand from Bangladesh. If they going to use sand then focus on one area rather then all over the country, otherwise the agricultural landscape will be gone. So as the greenery, with only thing left will be concrete building like the west….
This reporter is not smart. Change this person.
That country is small but their population is now over 170 million people.
They need to control their population.
Bengali are the 3rd largest ethnic groups in the world
Look up the stats the fertility rate of Bangladesh (2.0) is among the least in South Asia and similar to Developed countries
Now we can’t be blamed if the *Bengal Region* is the most fertile region in the entire world, can we?
This small region has 3 megacities namely Dacca(Dhaka), Calcutta(Kolkata), Chittagong(Chattogram) (GDP > 100 bn $ population > 10 million)
So u see these three cities contain almost 60 million people (corr. to 22nd most populated country) and generates almost 500 bn $ (corr. to 25th country by GDP)
Even before 500 yrs (1500 AD) The world’s 5th most populous city was in this region known as Gauda with an est. population of 200,000
Hope you realise it has more to do with the place and its location not the people
*Thank You*
@ব খ তী য়া র ফ য় সা ল [BAN] Bangladesh is 100 times better than Ethiopia
Save Bangladesh from Dictator Sheikh Hasina and her ministers
*Good report. Thank you Al Jazeera.*
Today Bangladeshi injustices worse than East Pakistan.
Our country has croption everywhere 🇧🇩🇧🇩
If u mean corruption then Every country does……
wow
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Their is nothing more disgusting than sub continent folk with those unkept beards and shaved moustaches.
This should get some attention!!!!!!
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What are you saying?
You are from Thailand.
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ทำไมไม่แก้ไขเองมายุ่งกับเราทำไมละเนี่ยที่เราไปยุ่งกับเขาทำไม
Allah
These are all soviet Mukti Bani mental slaves.
Wtf are you even trying to say?
@Jill Sandwich Bangaladesh is autocratic state, it was established by Soviet Comrades. the Govt in Bengaladesh doesn’t lesson to people, they follow communist dictation tactics forcing people to erase them from their land. Bengalis have less trust on Autocratic Govt.
@LOGHNY Warriors What? 🤣 You are completely delusional and have zero idea about Bangladesh. Do you even know what communism is?
@Jill Sandwich I am not saying that bangladesh is communist state,my point is the autocratic Govt using the force tactics taking land of indigenous population.
BAL Jazeera!! 🤣
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Yess is true
Journalists in our country do not see these things
Padma, Meghna, Jamuna, etc. are not helpless, they will certainly take the brutal revenge on us!
There isn’t any law in Bangladesh
Shame on govt.Oak thu
Yes, powerful people doing this illegal business. Very dangerous for river stability. But who would stop them, they run the gov.
AL JAZEERA is not focusing on global climate change issue that is causing many changes in Bangladesh. This is also an issue but somehow I find it crazy that “Bangladesh will find challenge in growing food that it needs due to this issue”! — Such a poor reporting! River drazzing is a need for survival of river as well but we must ensure transparent disposal of sand. That’s it. It is not that big area. I never expected such reporting from a world class and reputed network like Al JAZEERA that I am a fan and follower.