Newly appointed Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury has said a 100-day action plan will be introduced by giving priority to the important programmes under the ministry.
“The government will prepare and execute 100 days action plan through reviewing various priority programmes of the ministry”, he said.
The minister made this comment while exchanging views with the senior officials of the ministry and different departments and agency chiefs at the conference room of the ministry in Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka on Sunday (January 14), the first day of his office as a newly appointed minister of the ruling Awami League government.
The minister reached his office at the ministry at about 9:00 am on Sunday and interacted with senior officials including the secretary. Later, in a formal meeting, he instructed the officials on various issues for inclusion in the 100-day programme.
Before the meeting, the heads of various organisations and associations, including heads of the Department of Environment (DoE), Department of Forests, and Bangladesh Forest Research Institute, conveyed their best wishes to the minister.
Secretary of the Ministry Dr Farhina Ahmed, Additional secretaries Iqbal Abdullah Harun, Sanjay Kumar Bhowmik and Dr Fahmida Khanam, Director General of the Department of Environment (DoE) Dr Abdul Hamid and Chief Conservator of Forests Mohammad Amir Hossain Chowdhury were present at the views-exchange meeting.
Saber Hossain Chowdhury said, “I will try to make the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to the number ‘one’ position in terms of performance.”
He said that necessary steps will be taken to resolve the problems of air pollution, sound pollution, water pollution, plastic–polythene degradation and hill cutting through consulting with respective stakeholders.
He informed that the electoral manifestoes of the ruling Awami League and Mujib Climate prosperity plan will be implemented on priority basis.
Saber Hossain Chowdhury said, “Transparency will be ensured in the ministry activities. Legal action will be taken for sustainable development and preventing forest encroachment.”
Even overall assistance would be provided to the media, he said, adding that the problems would be resolved through making coordination with the mass media and other ministries.
