Chattogram Bureau :
“Hills are the beauty of Chattogram city. It is possible to develop the city by saving the hills.
The way of making road by cutting 300 feet hills by a government organisation like CDA is not acceptable in anyway.”Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said this as the Chief Guest on the second day of the two-day reunion of alumni at the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences of Chittagong University (CU) on Saturday. The Vice Chancellor of the university Dr Shirin Akhtar presided over the reunion of alumni held at the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences premises on Saturday at 10:30 am.
Dr Hasan Mahmud said, once the hills of Chittagong University were treeless. We used to plant trees in the hills then. I also worked at the university as a job student.
“Eleven years ago, the total area covered by the tree of Bangladesh was below 19 percent. Now it is more than 24 percent. But in the last eleven years, people and settlements have increased, two lanes roads have became four lanes, and the industry has grown. The reason of the increase in the amount of trees in Bangladesh, a sense of planting trees has awakened in the people. ‘
“Hills are the beauty of Chattogram city. It is possible to develop the city by saving the hills.
The way of making road by cutting 300 feet hills by a government organisation like CDA is not acceptable in anyway.”Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said this as the Chief Guest on the second day of the two-day reunion of alumni at the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences of Chittagong University (CU) on Saturday. The Vice Chancellor of the university Dr Shirin Akhtar presided over the reunion of alumni held at the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences premises on Saturday at 10:30 am.
Dr Hasan Mahmud said, once the hills of Chittagong University were treeless. We used to plant trees in the hills then. I also worked at the university as a job student.
“Eleven years ago, the total area covered by the tree of Bangladesh was below 19 percent. Now it is more than 24 percent. But in the last eleven years, people and settlements have increased, two lanes roads have became four lanes, and the industry has grown. The reason of the increase in the amount of trees in Bangladesh, a sense of planting trees has awakened in the people. ‘
