The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Speakers at a seminar urged the government and non-government agencies to take effective measure for sustainable sanitation and waste management in the country.

They said this at a seminar on "Sustainable Sanitation and Waste Management in Bangladesh" at LGED Bhaban Seminar Room. The Bangladesh Association for Social Advancement (BASA) and Practical Action (AP) jointly organised the seminar.

Country Director of Practical Action (AP) Veena Khaleque, Executive Director of BASA AKM Shirajul Islam, M Iqbal Karim, team leader of PA, Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan of BASA, Abdullah Al Mamun of PA, MA Gofran addressed in the seminar. Besides representatives from different countries including Bandula Chandrasakar of Srilanka, V Ganapathy, Madhaba Nayak and Anslem Rosario of India, Leo De Castro and Augusto Camba of Philippine, Pham Thi Anh and Le Thi Kimoanh of Vietnam, Lilliana Abarca and Arjan Ileurink of Netherlands described their experience in the field.

Veena Khaleque said that over 1.6 million children are attacked with diarrhoea every year due to lack of sanitation system in the country.

She was of the view that the sanitation goal could be achieved for all through affordable technologies of effective measures by the government and non-government agencies.

MA Gofran said that waste management is a great problem in the urban areas of the country.

Urban waste can be managed properly by setting up biogas plants, he added.