Country to witness green revolution in Mujib Year: Khalid

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DHAKA, Aug 18, 2020 (BSS) – State Minister for Shipping Khalid
Mahmud Chowdhury today expressed his optimism that country would
witness a green revolution through the plantation of one crore tree
saplings campaign during the ongoing Mujib Year marking the birth
centenary celebration of Bangabandhu.

“After her return to homeland in 1981, Sheikh Hasina used to carry
out plantation of tree saplings programme throughout three months of
monsoon every year through Krishak League since 1984 and this
initiative is still continuing,” he said.

The state minister was talking to journalists after joining a tree
sapling plantation programme on Jatiya Sangsad (JS) premises marking
Mujib Year.

On July 26 last, JS Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin inaugurated a
programme to plant 350 to 500 saplings of different species of trees
including forest, fruit-bearing and medicinal plants on the parliament
premises under the initiative of the JS marking the birth centenary of
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Khalid, also an Awami League lawmaker, said August is a month of
mourning as the architect of independent Bangladesh was brutally
assassinated along with his most of his family members on that soil on
August 15, 1975 when child, woman and even expecting mother did not
get escaped from deaths in the massacre.

He said the changes have been brought to programme scheduled for
Bangabandhu’s birth centenary in the wake of coronavirus pandemic but
the prime minister’s announced countrywide tree plantation programme
is going on.

Responding to the call of the premier, one crore saplings will be
planted across the country, he said, adding that Bangabandhu had given
a shape of political movement to tree plantation campaign.

Following his footprints, his able daughter Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina carried out the programme every year so that she has been
acknowledged as an eco-friendly statesman in the world, he said.

The AL lawmaker said no other political party in the world holds
tree plantation programme in that way.

Mentioning that Bangabandhu wanted to build ‘Sonar Bangla’ with
nature and people, the state minister said Father of the Nation turned
the Racecourse ground into a park having natural and aesthetic beauty.

Bangabandhu gifted the city dwellers a park to spend their leisure
with the natural beauty in a healthy environment, he said, adding that
the architect of independent Bangladesh had taken initiatives to plant
saplings at costal belts and areas of the world’s largest mangrove
forest the Sundarbans which today safeguards people as shield from
natural calamities.

Former state minister Narayan Chandra Chanda, MP, Whip Mahbub Ara
Begum Gini, Nadira Sultana, MP, and JS Secretariat Additional
Secretary Md Nuruzzaman were present, among others.