Dockyard workers carry on maintenance work on the hull of a ship on the banks of the Buriganga are the lifeblood of the delta nation of 168 million people where much of the low-lying land is accessed via boat, with Bangladesh's strong economic growth of recent years fuelling more investments in new and bigger ships. Twenty-eight dockyards occupying acres of the Buriganga foreshore have been in operation for the last 50 years without any authorization or guidelines, polluting the river and encroaching into the riverbank, reducing its navigability.

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Keywords: boat, buriganga, business, dockyard, economy, maintenance, repair, repairing, river, ship, shipyard, workers