Professor
Nazrul Islam's visit in Melbourne and discussion on BEN
Dr.Islam
Research Professor and Head of Quantitative Analysis Section of The
International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu,
Japan visited Melbourne for a short time. Within his two days stay
at Melbourne he
made a
brief presentation on Bangladesh Environment Network
(BEN) in front of a group of Bangladeshi. Dr. Nazrul Islam is the founder
coordinator of BEN. His discussion on BEN made it clear that wherever
we live it does not matter if we wish we could contribute to bring a
change in our country. BEN's activities is to improve environment of
Bangladesh is a success. BEN in cooperation
with other organisations of Bangladesh
namely Parash, BUET, Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon succeed in doing couple
of things .
As follows:
a) There is no more leaded fuel in
Bangladesh which generate black smoke
with carbon mono oxide;
b) Scooter free city is a credit to BEN
c) Polythin free Bangladesh also a battle
won by BEN
d) Save the river is BEN's target as a
result river Buriganga got
proper attention from the authority and
unauthorised shopping complexes in
the bank of the river were demolished.
The discussion was very much meaningful.
Impact of the BEN's activities on
the environment has been observed by some of
us who recently visited
Bangladesh .
Dr. Islam also mentioned that BEN is run by
voluntary contribution from the
community and they usually collect fund
during Christmas time.
Professor Islam was interviewed by the
Melbourne based community radio
programme AMAR VASHSA and will be
broadcasted on Monday the 18th of July at
2'clock on 93.3 FM band from Melbourne.
