Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
Ruthless corruption leading to massive depletion of forest resources is an existential threat to the sustainability of the country's environment. A forest represents, besides environmental sustainability, prevention of disasters like flood and cyclone and fertility of the soil, as well as economic well-being of a vast section of people who trade on forest products. A series of recent reports of corruption, which almost amounted to sell-out of forest resources, on the part of forest officials have given a new urgency to an old problem.
The shipping authorities have banned a foreign
In an effort to bring the drainage and consequent waterlogging issues into media focus, The Daily Star Chittagong bureau organised a roundtable titled "Drainage: A Menace for Chittagong' at its conference room on August 14. Abul Momen, adviser to the editor of The Daily Star in Chittagong, briefed about objectives of the series roundtable on Development of Chittagong. He said The Daily Star Chittagong Office will seek views on different problems and make endeavour to highlight development issues and prospect of Chittagong. Abul Momen
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has taken an initiative to develop a proper sewerage system with a view to curbing pollution of Banani-Gulshan and Gulshan-Baridhara lakes. The decision was taken yesterday at a meeting attended by LGRD Adviser Anwarul Iqbal and Public Works Adviser Maj Gen (retd) Ghulam Quader. The meeting decided to incorporate the Gulshan-Banani lake into the Hatirjheel project. The proposed system will carry wastes from Gulshan and Banani lakes to the sewerage system of Hatirjheel project, reducing pollution of the water bodies.
Dhaka Metropolitan Transport Committee has stopped renewing route permits of buses and minibuses over 15 years old, as the communications ministry has decided to impose restrictions on such vehicles in the city. According to the decision, the bus owners should withdraw such buses from Dhaka and can replace their old buses with CNG-run 52-seater buses, an official handout said yesterday. The bus and minibus owners can also operate their old vehicles outside Dhaka and Chittagong cities, it added.
A three-day national haor festival organised by Paribesh Bachao Andolon (Save the Environment Movement) will begin at Mohanganj in Netrokona tomorrow to protect the water body. Noted writer Muhammed Zafar Iqbal will inaugurate the festival, first of its kind in the country. The programmes of the festival include traditional songs, sports, exhibition and boat race. Mass Education and Cultural Affairs Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury and Special Assistant to Chief Adviser Manik Lal Samaddar will be present at the inaugural ceremony of the festival.
Environmentalists and city dwellers yesterday urged the government to take initiatives for the development of Narayanganj in a planned manner. They also called upon the government not to sell the acquired government land and establish playground and park for ensuring a healthy environment. Narayanganj, which is called the Dundee of the east, is facing severe shortage of civic amenities, said ATM Kamal, president, Narayanganj City Development Committee at a press briefing at the VIP auditorium of Dhaka Reporters Unity.
Bangladesh's high economic growth during the last decade has resulted in significant reductions in poverty. However, 36 million people--about one quarter of the country's population--still face acute poverty and hunger.
Clinical waste management in Barisal is going on without any scientific management, proper license and training and often piled on city roadsides posing risks of environmental and health hazards. More than 800 Kg. clinical wastages per day created from two public hospitals and more than 50 private hospital, clinics, laboratories, health care and diagnostic centers of Barisal city.
The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to take a comprehensive and integrated plan to remove water logging in different parts of the country including the cities of Dhaka and Chittagong. He also directed them, at a high-level inter-ministerial meeting at his office, to recover, from the grabbers, the canals in the two cities, keep them clean round the year, construct walk ways on both the banks of the canals and keep them free from grabbing.