Dhaka, Broadcasting News Corporation: Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury has instructed the officials to discharge their duties according to the law. He said that in order to keep the country’s environment livable, it is necessary to work according to the rules in the official work, including the illegal encroachment of forest land. Nothing should be done to satisfy Minister, MP or influential person. Work for the welfare of the people. The Environment Minister said these things in the speech as the chair at the inauguration ceremony organized at Bangabandhu International Conference Center on the occasion of World Environment Day and Environment Fair and National Tree Planting Campaign and Tree Fair 2024 on today. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Environment and Tree Fair and the National Tree Plantation Campaign as Chief Guest. The Environment Minister said that after the independence in 1973, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman issued the Water Pollution Control Ordinance, 1973 and started environmental conservation activities in independent Bangladesh. In continuation of this, in 1989, the Environment and Forest Ministry was created by combining the Department of Forests and the Department of Environment by renaming the Directorate of Environmental Pollution Control as the Department of Environment. The minister said that Awami League was the first party to create an editorial post on population and environment in the 15th conference held in 1992.
Dipankar Talukder, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Farhina Ahmed, Secretary of the ministry, Director General of the Department of Environment Dr. Abdul Hamid, and Chief Conservator of Forest Department Md. Amir Hossain Chowdhury was present on stage. The ongoing Environment Fair in Sher-E-Bangla Nagar will run from June 5 to June 11 and the Tree Fair will run from June 5 to July 13, 2024. The fair will run from 09 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day.