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LGD, Defence Ministry ink MoU over setting up weather stations
DHAKA, April 9, 2019 (BSS) – A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was
signed today between Local Government Division (LGD) and Defence Ministry on
using land of Upazila Parishads for setting up agriculture based automatic
weather station at 200 upazilas across the country.
LGD Senior Secretary SM Ghulam Farooque and Secretary of the Defence
Ministry Akhter Hussain Bhuiya signed the MoU on behalf of their respective
sides at a function at the conference room of LGD here this afternoon, said
an official release here today.
Local Government, Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperatives Minister Md
Tazul Islam and State Minister Swapan Bhattacharjee and other officials
concerned were present in the MoU signing ceremony.
Speaking on the occasion, Tazul Islam said availability of region based
weather update will speed up the economic activities of the country.
“Specially, we would be benefited utilizing the weather update in agriculture
sector,” he added.
The agriculture based Automatic Weather Station (Ag-AWS) will be set up
at 200 upazilas across the country under the project ‘Strengthening
Meteorological Information Services and Early Warning Systems (Component-A)’.
The project, funded by the World Bank (WB), is expected to be implemented
by June 2021 under the Defence Ministry.
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