‘People to suffer for uncontrolled noise pollution’

Staff Reporter :
People of the country will have to face hearing problems if noise pollution is not controlled.

Vehicle drivers are harming themselves and others by creating unnecessary noise, so everyone should be aware of it.

Habibun Nahar, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, said this while addressing a special program to prevent sound pollution jointly organised by the ministry in front of the Bangladesh Secretariat on Tuesday.

“If we all work together, we can control noise pollution.

A study has shown that two percent of working hours are lost, people’s health is damaged, disabled children are born and many types of problems are caused including hindering the development of newborns due to noise pollution. For our own survival, noise pollution must be prevented to improve the quality of environment,” she said.

Dr. Farhina Ahmed, Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said that many people do not know that everyone is suffering due to noise pollution. If drivers can be made aware, they will abstain from creating noise, she added.

During the program, Additional Secretary of the Environment Ministry Iqbal Abdullah Harun, Additional Secretary Md. Mizanur Rahman, Additional Secretary Dr Fahmida Khanam, Director General of the Department of Environment (DoE) Abdul Hamid along with senior officials of the Ministry and DoE took position at the gate of the secretariat with placards. At this time they requested the drivers not to create unnecessary noise and distributed awareness stickers to prevent noise pollution. #