BSS, Rajshahi :
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is going to adopt a mega project involving around Tk 3,000 crore for improving living and livelihood condition of its people.
AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Mayor of RCC, revealed this while addressing the opening session of a four-day housing fair at green plaza of the City Bhaban here yesterday afternoon as the chief guest.
He says the project titled “Integrated Urban Infrastructure Development in Rajshahi City” will be adopted in order to promoting the city’s major need-based sectors. Upon its approval and successful implementation, the project will contribute a lot towards taking the city to a new height, he added.
Real Estate and Developers Association (REDA) organized the fair showcasing its products in 32 stalls.
Chaired by REDA President Towfiqur Rahman Lavlu the inaugural session was addressed, among others, by Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Humayun Kabir, President of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industries Md Muniruzzaman and REDA General Secretary Mizanur Rahman Kazi. Mayor Liton urged the REDA members to construct building after following the building code so that all sorts of casualty and loss of assets can be averted.
Highlighting the enormous prospects of foreign investment here he says foreign investment can be the vital means of bolstering economic condition of Rajshahi as it is enriched with massive natural resources including surplus agricultural production.
Liton also called for more industries in the region for bolstering its economy coupled with improving the living and livelihood condition of people.
Adequate industrialization could be the effective means of more employment generation and the best uses of the surplus agricultural production, he added.
Sustainable land management in Barind region stressed: Speakers at a participatory discussion here on Thursday put emphasis on ensuring a sustainable land management to address the existing challenges of enhancing land productivity and water use efficiency in Barind region.
The speakers viewed that time has come to stimulate innovative possibilities with building a shared understanding to amplify the potentials and reduce the adversities in the dried areas.
Measures should be strengthened to improve land resources and ecosystems including soil, water, flora and fauna, they added. The speakers were addressing a daylong validation meeting on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) organized by Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) in its conference hall in the city.
More than 30 scientists, researchers, development activists and other stakeholders attended the meeting initiated by a project titled “Establishing National Land Use and Land Degradation Profile towards Mainstreaming SLM Practices in Sector Policies”.
BMDA Chairman Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury addressed the meeting as chief guest with its Executive Director Engineer Abdur Rashid in the chair.
Professor Nurul Alam from Department of Crop Science and Technology in Rajshahi University, Additional Director of Department of Agriculture Extension Deb Dulal Dhali and BMDA Superintending Engineers Shamsul Huda and Dr Abul Kashem also spoke.
During keynote presentations, Dr Jalal Uddin Soaib, coordinator of the project, and its focal person ATM Rafiqul Islam gave an overview of the project and its implementation strategy.
They told the meeting that the two-year project is intended to increase understanding of people about land use and state of land degradation alongside mainstreaming SLM in every sector.
As a whole, the scheme will focus on land degradation and other critical environmental hazards and demonstrate practical solutions through awareness building and engagement of stakeholders, organisers said.
In his remarks, Dr Akram Chowdhury said ensuring a prudent use of land resources has become a major challenge as the agricultural land in the country is shrinking at an alarming rate.
He laid importance on evolving time-befitting ways and means to protect lands from further degradation against the backdrop of increasing demand for land for development purposes and multipurpose uses.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is going to adopt a mega project involving around Tk 3,000 crore for improving living and livelihood condition of its people.
AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Mayor of RCC, revealed this while addressing the opening session of a four-day housing fair at green plaza of the City Bhaban here yesterday afternoon as the chief guest.
He says the project titled “Integrated Urban Infrastructure Development in Rajshahi City” will be adopted in order to promoting the city’s major need-based sectors. Upon its approval and successful implementation, the project will contribute a lot towards taking the city to a new height, he added.
Real Estate and Developers Association (REDA) organized the fair showcasing its products in 32 stalls.
Chaired by REDA President Towfiqur Rahman Lavlu the inaugural session was addressed, among others, by Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Humayun Kabir, President of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industries Md Muniruzzaman and REDA General Secretary Mizanur Rahman Kazi. Mayor Liton urged the REDA members to construct building after following the building code so that all sorts of casualty and loss of assets can be averted.
Highlighting the enormous prospects of foreign investment here he says foreign investment can be the vital means of bolstering economic condition of Rajshahi as it is enriched with massive natural resources including surplus agricultural production.
Liton also called for more industries in the region for bolstering its economy coupled with improving the living and livelihood condition of people.
Adequate industrialization could be the effective means of more employment generation and the best uses of the surplus agricultural production, he added.
Sustainable land management in Barind region stressed: Speakers at a participatory discussion here on Thursday put emphasis on ensuring a sustainable land management to address the existing challenges of enhancing land productivity and water use efficiency in Barind region.
The speakers viewed that time has come to stimulate innovative possibilities with building a shared understanding to amplify the potentials and reduce the adversities in the dried areas.
Measures should be strengthened to improve land resources and ecosystems including soil, water, flora and fauna, they added. The speakers were addressing a daylong validation meeting on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) organized by Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) in its conference hall in the city.
More than 30 scientists, researchers, development activists and other stakeholders attended the meeting initiated by a project titled “Establishing National Land Use and Land Degradation Profile towards Mainstreaming SLM Practices in Sector Policies”.
BMDA Chairman Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury addressed the meeting as chief guest with its Executive Director Engineer Abdur Rashid in the chair.
Professor Nurul Alam from Department of Crop Science and Technology in Rajshahi University, Additional Director of Department of Agriculture Extension Deb Dulal Dhali and BMDA Superintending Engineers Shamsul Huda and Dr Abul Kashem also spoke.
During keynote presentations, Dr Jalal Uddin Soaib, coordinator of the project, and its focal person ATM Rafiqul Islam gave an overview of the project and its implementation strategy.
They told the meeting that the two-year project is intended to increase understanding of people about land use and state of land degradation alongside mainstreaming SLM in every sector.
As a whole, the scheme will focus on land degradation and other critical environmental hazards and demonstrate practical solutions through awareness building and engagement of stakeholders, organisers said.
In his remarks, Dr Akram Chowdhury said ensuring a prudent use of land resources has become a major challenge as the agricultural land in the country is shrinking at an alarming rate.
He laid importance on evolving time-befitting ways and means to protect lands from further degradation against the backdrop of increasing demand for land for development purposes and multipurpose uses.
