Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury said that the ministry has taken the initiative to include all subjects related to environmental protection and climate change in the curriculum for students from class III to class VIII. The minister said that such an initiative is being taken by the ministry as an urge to make children aware from an early age by adding the subject of environmental protection to the curriculum. He said, besides, effective steps are being taken to prevent air and noise pollution.
The environment minister said these things while addressing the chief guest at the national seminar on sustainable urbanization and environmental protection recommendations at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in the capital on Monday (April 29).
The minister also urged everyone to change their habitual daily habits in the field of environmental protection. He urged everyone to be more aware of the use of plastic. He called upon the city concerned to play an effective role in waste removal. The minister said that the government cannot do anything alone, it has to work with everyone. The minister called for a caucus event in Parliament with the 46 MPs who had promised waste management ahead of the elections.
Mohammad Khan, Director of USAID’s Bangladesh Office, Gwendolyn Apple, Vice President of Programs of Counterpart International, former Professor and Dean of Bangladesh University of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, spoke at the seminar among others. Ijaz Hossain, Dhaka North City Corporation Chief Waste Management Officer Captain Mohammad Fida Hasan, Counterpart International PAR Program Chief of Party KT Croke, Poor Health Center Joint Director Pradip Kumar Roy, Waterkeepers Bangladesh Coordinator Sharif Jamil and Sushilan Chief Executive Mustafa Nuruzzaman and others.