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JS body for experts’ assessment on environmental loss in Cox’s Bazar
DHAKA, Oct 17, 2019 (BSS) – The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry today recommended conducting
an assessment through experts on the loss and damage of environment and
biodiversity for sheltering the forcibly displaced Rohingya population in
Cox’s Bazar.
The parliamentary watchdog came up with the recommendation while a
delegation of the body, led by its chairman Saber Hossain Chowdhury, was
visiting Rohingya camps in Ukia, Teknaf.
The delegation included Jafar Alam, Md Rezaul Karim Bablu and Khodeja
Nasrin Akter, an official release said.
Senior officials of the ministry, Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat, the
Department of Forest and the Department of Environment (DoE) were present.
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