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Implementation of Environmental policies in Bangladesh |
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by Sumit Chowdhury | 14-10-2018 02:13
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Significant changes for the better in the management of the environment are rarely noted today in Bangladesh despite the formation of policies, laws and regulatory apparatuses to protect the environment. The environment of Bangladesh has only gone on declining during the last two decades. Dhaka city was rated as the world's most air polluted city in the nineties. It has improved its status since that time by pushing the worst air polluting auto rickshaw away from the metropolitan areas of Dhaka. But the air in the city still remains that of one of the most polluted ones in the world in the absence of other follow up measures. Sections of rivers flowing around the big concentrations of urban population of Bangladesh have turned so polluted from unregulated discharge of effluents that these are like dark liquids devoid of oxygen and aquatic life. Biodiversity of large parts of Bangladesh have been threatened by a number of man-made factors. One of them is the country's overpopulation and its consequent impact on the environment. But compared to the devastating population bomb that is building up for this small country, the response to it appears to be hardly a proportionate one against the threat. Widespread presence of arsenic in underground water, the loss of soil fertility from mono-cropping without crop rotation, toxicity of the soil and the consequent threatened food chain from indiscriminate use of chemical fertlisers and pesticides, etc., are the other growingly formidable environmental problems. Deforestation has whittled down to below ten per cent the country's forests and vegetation cover ; the country's basic environmental balance has been threatened as a result. Afforestation programmes may have had only a marginal impact on these conditions. This is because deforestation activities are considered to be greater than afforestation ones. The coastal areas of the country are poorly supervised. Foreign vessels dump their waste matters too freely in the coastal areas and perhaps such vessels had dumped on occasions cargoes of very hazardous wastes in Bangladesh's territorial waters finding the same an unchallenged zone while indulging in such activities. There are many sides to the environmental crisis that is gradually showing up in Bangladesh. The environmental policy should lead to environmental laws to protect and expand the country's forests and vegetation, to protect and increase the number of its reserved forests, to protect its bio-diversity, to promote environment friendly urban areas, etc. Externally, under the environment policy, Bangladesh must pursue a more strident and vocal role internationally to draw attention to the plight of Bangladesh from the earth warming. But the policy will remain ineffectual as long as it remains on paper and is not enforced. For the environmental policy to bear fruit, it must go the whole hog with the creation of apparatuses in its support such as the environmental courts, the environmental police, etc., as well as their efficient and scrupulous functioning. Source: Ineependentbd image: Dhakatribune
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Nice report @Sumit Sad to know that the environmental status is degrading further in the Bangladesh. Youths are the future of the nation and must act for its preservation. Any very true said that policy shouldn't just remain on the paper.
Posted 19-10-2018 22:47
Hello Summit, it seems like the overall nature level is decreasing due to the fast urbanization and development of industries over the nation. Though individual countries do have their own environment conservation contents and agendas in their constitutions, but it is true that government and people used to forget or miss out the points that all of us have to keep our environment in 'certain level of cleanliness' instead of building up tons of skyscrapers and so on.
Without preserving them, whole city will turn out to be grey, no green areas through it. Policies do exist for preventing fast destruction and biased development toward urbanization, not to rehabilitate and get cities back to green area.
Thanks for your report!
Posted 17-10-2018 22:04
Hello Summit!
It is very much true that
'the policy will remain ineffectual as long as it remains on paper and is not enforced. For the environmental policy to bear fruit, it must go the whole hog with the creation of apparatuses in its support'!
Policies do a great role in providing the right directions that the nation should go to achieve improvements in this issue but without the following pragmatic dedication from related parts, change won't come!
Thanks for the report :)
Posted 15-10-2018 20:20
Thanks for the report!!
Posted 15-10-2018 14:42
Sumit,
It is because of these environmental issues and the need for effective environmental policies that these month's monthly report has given everyone us the opportunity to propose meaningful policies that will promote the environmental sector of our various regions.
Bangladesh's environment will be better if environmental policies are properly established and well implemented
Thanks for the report Sumit.
Posted 14-10-2018 05:24