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AIR-POLLUTION
Govt is implementing CASE project to check air pollution
SANGSAD BHABAN, Jan 9, 2018 (BSS) – Environment and Forest Minister
Anisul Islam Mahmud today said the government is implementing clean air and
sustainable environment (CASE) project to check air pollution of the country
including Dhaka and Chittagong.
“Various activities including development of infrastructure, research, air
pollution monitoring and air pollution control have taken under the project,”
said the minister while responding to a question placed by treasury bench
lawmaker M Mamunur Rashid Kiron of Noakhali-3 at the Jatiya Sangsad here.
Under the project, a total of 11 Continuous Air Quality Monitoring Station
(CAMS) have been installed for regular monitoring of the air pollution quality
at eight populous city including Dhaka and Chittagong, said the minister.
In addition to this, initiative is underway to install CAMS at more five important
cities under the project, he added.
Besides this, the government has taken an initiative to transform the
conventional brick kilns into modern and equipped ones through implementing
the Brick Manufacturing and Brick Kilns Establishment (Control) Act 2013, he said, adding that “it will help
check the air pollution created by the brick kilns in the country including Dhaka and Chittagong.”
The Environment Department has taken various activities including filing cases at the Environment court
and operating mobile court along with enforcement programme against illegal brick kilns and
implementing the act.
As a result, around 65.20 per cent brick kilns have already transformed into modern technology across the
country till December 2017, said the environment minister.
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