‘Noise and air pollution create hazardouse situation’
Staff Reporter :
Speakers in a round table meeting in hte capital on Monday said that noise and air pollution created hazardouse situation in the capital.
Jagonews24.com organised the programme on the occasion of the World Environment Day.
KM Ziaul Haque, Acting Editor of Jagonews24.com moderated the round table meeting, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Department of Jahangirnagar University and Executive Director of Institute for Planning and Development (IPD) Dr. Adil Muhammad Khan, Assistant Director of Shyamoli 250-bed TB hospital Dr. Ayesha Akhtar, Organizing Secretary of Dhaka Road Transport Owners Association and Vice President of Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association Mahbubur Rahman and Tel Plastics Executive Director Kamrul Hasan, among others, participated the programme.
Dr. Adil Muhammad Khan said air pollution is in severe state in the capital. The situation is going towards a serious turns day by day.
“Similarly, the unabated noise pollution created by uncontrolled horn of city transportations are making the people sick physically and mentally,” the expert said.
He said that there is a mindset that the environmental pollution is a must in case of development.
But we have to erase such mentality.
“Development work does not create a reason for devastating the environment,” he said.
The expert said that there are some policy oriented problems in this regards.
“It has been heard in this time that first development then to think about environment.
Such policy should not be accepted. Where development means ruining the environment we should avoid that model,” Dr. Adil Muhammad said.
He said, “Brick kiln seriously polluted environment. Huge numbers of brick kiln are operating here and there destroying our environment, but the government kept blind eyes in such cases.”
Similarly, there are rule of keeping residential areas and industrial areas separate places, but it has been found that the industrialists constructed their factories as per their whims ignoring the rules.
The experts said that Rajshahi City Corporation has made an example in the country by creating green city. Rajshahi City Corporation plants trees even in road dividers, it is an exemplary initiative, he said.
The expert said that an ideal city needed at least 25 percent greenery, 10 to 15 pc wetland and 40 pc concrete. But in Dhaka we seen there are 80 to 90 pc are building.
The urban specialist emphasised over ensuring rules of law to protect environment for the sake of save the civilisation.
Dr. Ayesha Akhtar said environmental pollution is making the planet unlivable day by day.
“Asthma and such other patients are increasing alarmingly due to severe pollution in our country,” she said.
Dr. Ayesha said, “Once we found 200 to 300 patients in our hospital but now we now visit 600 patients every day.”
