Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan spoke at a view exchange meeting at the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Bangladesh Secretariat today. Photo : PID

DHAKA, July 10, 2025 (BSS) – Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said that despite repeated warnings, those who are involved in production and marketing of banned polythene will no longer be spared. 

“With the support of joint forces, strict drives will be launched against those who are involved with such illegal activities,” she said.

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, also the adviser to the water resources ministry, made these remarks while speaking at a view exchange meeting, held today at the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Bangladesh Secretariat with participation of various law enforcement agencies.

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury presided over the meeting.

At the meeting, it was decided to carry out rigorous operations against the production, import, marketing, sale, displaying for sale, storage, distribution, and commercial transportation of banned polythene shopping bags.

The environment advisor emphasized the need for a collective effort to protect the environment, saying that a coordinated and uninterrupted action plan will be implemented involving the administration, law enforcement agencies, local government bodies, and the general public.

Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Nasimul Ghani, Additional Secretary Khandaker Mahbubur Rahman, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Environment Dr. Fahmida Khanom, Director General of the Department of Environment Md. Kamruzzaman, RAB ADG (Operations) Colonel Iftekhar Ahmed, Commander of Azimpur Army Camp Lt. Col. Nahid-uz-Zaman Khan, RAB-10 Commander Mohammad Kamruzzaman, DMP Additional Commissioners Nazrul Islam and Faruq Ahmed, Chief Waste Management Officer of Dhaka South City Corporation Air Commodore Md. Mahbubur Rahman Talukdar, Dhaka Deputy Commissioner Tanvir Ahmed, and DMP Deputy Commissioner  of Lalbagh Mohammad Jasim Uddin were present on the occasion. 

Meanwhile, in Kishoreganj, a mobile court filed a case and seized polythene bags. 

On the same day, a raid was conducted on a polythene shopping bag manufacturing unit in Araihazar Upazila of Narayanganj, where the electricity connection was cut off and the electric meter was seized.