Young generation called for being engaged in the green campaign
Dhaka, March 15, 2017 (EP) - Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury today inaugurated the 17th National Renewable Energy & Green Expo-2017 on the Dhaka University (DU) campus, with a call to go for renewable energy for sustainable development of the country.
“We should move for renewable energy as it will help develop sustainable environment,” he told the inaugural session of the four-day exhibition at the DU central playground, jointly organized by the DU Energy Institute and Bangladesh Solar Energy Society.
He urged the country’s young generation to engage themselves in green activities to develop a greener Bangladesh.
Dr Elahi said the guardians and educational institutes should encourage the young generation to get involved in the movement of renewable energy as part of the green campaign.
SREDA Chairman Md Anwarul Islam Sikder, BIFFL Executive Director Formanul Islam, Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh President Md Kabir Ahmed Bhuiyan, GreenTech Foundation Bangladesh Chairman Muhammad Abdul Mazid and Energy Revolution Germany Founder Matthias Gelber were, among others, present. DU Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique presided over the inaugural session.
On the sidelines of the event, the Institute of Energy arranged two seminars, moderated by Editor of ‘Energy & Power’ magazine Mollah Amzad Hossain.
Commerce Minister was the chief guest at the seminar titled “Prospects of Bangladeshi Apparel & Textile Industries as Green Industry in World under Environmental Stress”. Tofail said Bangladesh was going forward and it would continue to progress.
“We are focusing on the infrastructure of our garments factories after the Rana Plaza collapse. Now we are taking initiatives to make our garment factory buildings into green ones.”
Director of Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BKMEA) M I Siddque informed the audience that the association formed a Green Cell for monitoring and supporting the industrialists to build green industry. “We already visited 100 factories on this porous.”
He said that within the next 2-3 years, almost 90% to 95% factory-buildings would be green. He urged the Bangladesh Bank to increase their finance on green building, which is now only TK 20 million.
Earlier Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation Sayeed khokon spoke at the seminar on “Waste Management: Waste to Energy” as the chief guest.
He rejected the possibility of establishing waste to energy project under the city corporation in 3-4 years. “Honestly saying, now I don’t have any good news for the citizen on waste to energy,” he said.
He said that in last 21 years there were more than 100 proposals came to the city corporation, which were related to waste to energy. None of them implemented because of bureaucratic complexities, price issue and so on.
Presently, the city corporation is working on waste management and it is struggling to manage the waste being produced by the city dwellers.
