The environment and forest state minister, Hasan Mahmud, on Friday distributed waste recycling bins and waste-carrying rickshaw-vans for a cleaning programme under a pilot project on waste management through reduction, reusing and recycling.
The pilot project for the Dhanmondi area began in April 2010 and will continue till March 2012, bringing 2.5 lakh people of the Gulshan, Mohammadpur, Azimpur in Dhaka and Khulshi, Nasirabad in Chittagong under the project, said Hasan Mahmud in a programme marking the inauguration of the pilot project of the ministry.
A total of 70,000 waste-recycling bins and 180 waste-carrying rickshaws would be distributed in the areas to make a twenty-tonne capacity compost plant in the Dhaka city.
Speaking on the occasion, Hasan Mahmud said that 27 per cent population of the country live in the cities and the percentage is increasing every day.
Waste management is a very important for proper civic life, he said, adding that the whole country would gradually be brought under the project titled ‘How to manage the garbage with 3R strategy’.
Special guest lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Tapash said in spite of being the capital of the country, the Dhaka city lacked civic amenities essential for any capital.
He said the present government would try its best to provide a healthy civic life in Dhaka city.
Secretary-in-charge of the environment and forest ministry Mesbah Ul Alam presided over the programme also attended by additional secretary of environment and forest ministry Monwar Islam, Dhanmondi Awami League general secretary Kazi Marshed Hossain Kamal, Dhaka City Corporation’s chief waste management officer BK Shaha.
