Online Desk:  Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury said that the ministry has taken the initiative to include topics related to environmental protection and climate change in the curriculum for students from class III to class VIII.

The minister said that such an initiative is being taken by the ministry as an urge to make children aware from an early age by adding the subject of environmental protection to the curriculum.  He said, besides, effective steps are being taken to prevent air and noise pollution.

Saber was addressing the chief guest at the national roundtable Citizen roadmap to advance sustainable urbanisation and environmental protection at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in the capital on Monday.

The minister also urged everyone to change their habitual daily habits in the field of environmental protection.  He urged everyone to be more aware of the use of plastic.  He called upon the city concerned to play an effective role in waste removal.  The minister said that the government cannot do anything alone; it has to work with everyone.  The minister called for a caucus in Parliament with the 46 MPs who had promised waste management ahead of the elections.

Mohammad Khan, Director of USAID’s Bangladesh Office, Gwendolyn Apple, Vice President of Programs of Counterpart International, Dr Ijaz Hossain, former Professor and Dean of Bangladesh University of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering spoke at the seminar, among others.