Barisal Correspondent :
Participants at a programme of giving floral wraths in Kirtankhola River and holding human chain rally on river-bank on Friday morning stressed executing a coordinated water management policy for saving river and water bodies as life-line of Bangladesh.
They highlighted the values of rivers and strive to increase public awareness while encouraging the improved stewardship of rivers around the world and region.
The programmes styled as ‘ save the rivers from the demons of encroachments and pollutions’ at Charkawa Ferry Ghat point, was jointly organised by voluntary organizations Integrated Community Development Association (ICDA), Angikar Bangladesh, Mobilisation for Alternative Programme (MAP), and Action for Behavioral Change (ABC) Foundation, on the eve of World Rivers Day.
Huge number of people from different walks of life amid adverse weather participated in the programmes carrying different banners, placards, festoons symbolising bad impact of destructing river on the 15 million people of riverine southern and coastal region.
Among others Anowar Zahid, Dr. Syed Habibur Rahman, Narayan Chandra Saha, Naqib Abdus Salam, Shuvangkar Chakraborty, Nurul Islam, Salma Begum, environment, human rights and development organisation activists, addressed the programmes.
The speakers said since creation of earth river makes the civilisations as well as green country like Bangladesh. Without river Bangladesh may be a desert.
