RANGPUR, July 30, 2018 (BSS) – Vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya
University, Rangpur (BRUR) Professor Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah has called
for building a green nature through tree plantation to improve environment
amid changing climate.
“Massive forestation through tree plantation can create an eco-friendly
green nature for adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change and
bringing ecological equilibrium for attaining sustainable economic
development,” he said.
Dr Kalimullah said this while launching the Global Tree Plantation Movement
styled “Green Hands” by planting a tree sapling at a function held on the
campus of the university on Sunday afternoon as the chief guest, a press
release said today.
The Rotaract Club of BRUR organised the function with sponsorship of Rotary
Club of Rangpur to launch the tree plantation movement on the university
campus as elsewhere in the country and the globe under the SEARIC MDIO
project.
Presided over by President of Rotaract Club of BRUR Rotarian Khalid
Saifullah, its general secretary Rotarian Mohammad Abdullah moderated the
function.
The chief guest urged the students, youths and common people for planting
at least three tree saplings annually in their educational institutions,
homesteads, roadside areas and fallow lands to build a green nature with eye-
catching looks all-around.
Additional Director of the Planning Development and Works Divisional of
BRUR Dr ATGM Golam Feroz, Deputy Registrar (Estate Division) Morshed Ul Alam
Rony and Deputy Registrar (Academic) Aminur Rahman, among others, were
present.