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Transparency to be ensured in climate projects: Shahab Uddin
DHAKA, Oct 22, 2020 (BSS) – Environment, Forests and Climate Change
Minister Md Shahab Uddin today said transparency and quality will be
ensured while implementing the projects funded by Bangladesh Climate
Change Trust Fund (BCCTF).
“Monitoring and supervision activities will be intensified aiming
to complete the ongoing climate projects within the stipulated
timeframe,” he told the 53rd trustee board meeting of Bangladesh
Climate Change Trust through videoconferencing here.
The minister said initiatives have been taken to evaluate the
projects, financed by BCCTF through outsourcing, a ministry press
release said. As the first country, Bangladesh formed the BCCTF with
its own funding under the special initiative of Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina, which is a unique example in the world, he said.
Shahab Uddin said about 789 projects have so far been taken with
the funding of the BCCTF. The successful implementation of these
projects will help enable the country to cope with the adverse impacts
of climate change, he added.
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque, Local Government, Rural
Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam, Foreign Minister
AK Abdul Momen, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, State Minister
for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, State Minister for Water
Resources Zaheed Farooque, State Minister for Women and Children
Affairs Begum Fazilatun Nesa, Deputy Minister of Environment, Forests
and Climate Change Begum Habibun Nahar, Environment, Forests and
Climate Change Secretary Ziaul Hasan, Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation
(PKSF) Chairman Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad and secretaries of various
ministries also spoke at the meeting.
The meeting approved the revised proposals for inter-sectoral
coordination of 18 ongoing projects and application for extension of
timeframe for 40 projects.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the period of the ongoing projects,
including the new projects, have been extended by one year from the
approved period or extended time period.
The meeting also approved the application for extension of one year
from the approved period for all the ongoing projects, which have
expired in June, 2020.
It decided to take action against the project directors following
PPR if any irregularity is found in the ongoing projects financed by
BCCTF.
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