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Tk 107 crore Green Belt programme
Bangladesh has chalked out a massive Green Bett Progra mme in the southern coastal areas in a bid to construct an environmental safety net agai nst cyclones pnd tidal bores, create Job opportunities and alleviate poverty.
In an exclusive Interview with BSS yesterday Environment and Forest and Fisher les and Livestocks Minister Abdullah AL Noman said all the preparatory works were completed to start the Implementation of the Taka 107 crore Green Beit Programme from the current fiscal year for Slanting fruit bearing trees ke coconut, date-palm and palmyra In the south coast of the country.
The Minister said the gov ernment of Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was now formulating more than Taka 1000 crore programmes for national tree plantation, conservation of bio-diversity, nature conservation, coastal af-forestation, industrial a pollu tion control, alternative use of CFC gas, monitoring the secre-tion of Mithen gas from the paddy fields of the Ganges Brahmaputra-Meghna basin and conservation of the water ways in the country.
Noman said the government had prepared the national environment policy, examining the terrestrial and marine environment, inland water resources and the situation In urban and rural areas. The environment policy, he said, looks at the implications of global environmental problems such as the depiction of the ozone layer, climatic changes, the Green House effect and the rise in the sea level.
It explores the response to environmental problems vis a vis development in Institutions and legislations, education, communication and social awareness and participation of the people, technology and planning.
We have to meet the environmental challenges of the 1990s, the Minister said, adding that along side policy
decisions, the government was now fostering public awareness of environmental issues and ensuring participation at all levels, especially at the grass roots.
Stressing the urgent need to incorporate new tech no Io gles tn the development process. designed to conserve resources and to protect the environment. Noman said, the present government was now striving to achieve environmentally sound and sustainable development to safeguard valu-
able natural resources and ecosystem fox the benefit of the 112 million people of the country.
The Environment Minister, said BNP government was pledge-bound to ensure a bet ter quality of life for the people of the country. He urged the people to cooperate with the government to achieve environmentally sound and sustainable development.
Listing the measures, steps and programmes undertaken by the new BNP government, he said the living standard of the people would improve sharply with the full implementation of the development programmes.
The Minister said the government was also preparing programmes for a massive development in the country with the assistances from the 150 billion US dollar global environment facilities fund, created at the Rio earth summit.
Noman said the United States of America also had expressed readiness to finance bilaterally Bangladesh's environment programmes.