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reduce the ozone layer. ‘The major air pollutants effecting
respiratory tract are sulfur dioxide, photochemical
oxidant, ozone and NO2’ (Ahmed et al., 2002).
The following stringent measures can be adopted by
Government of Bangladesh to save the huge amount by
making the atmosphere environment-friendly:
1. Take the lead in managing this disastrous situation.
2. Promote national energy efficiency and emission
standards and develop efficient, cost effective, and less
polluting mass transit systems.
3. Completely abolish on importing and use of leaded
gasoline.
4. Completely abolish on 2 stroke engine vehicles.
5. Completely abolish on (which are more than 20 years)
old vehicles.
6. Correct use of lubricants can reduce the emission
levels.
7. Encourage people to use Compressed Natural Gas
(CNG) or Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG), Rechargeable
Battery (recently being used by US) driven car.
8. Immediately scratching out of all unfit vehicles and
would be punish if they drive all those kind of vehicles on
the streets.
9. Every vehicle’s (government and non government)
should submit to emission test and get inspected by
every year.
10. Immediate relocate/ shift the Industries (such as
Tanneries, Battery, Pharmaceutical, Tobacco) away from
Dhaka city.
11. Training for the Doctors and treatment facilities for the
patients are required.
12. General Training should be held quarterly to train the
drivers how to reduce emissions.
13. Seminar/ National and International Conference
should be held yearly.
14. Industrial wastage should be properly disposed.
15. Create Public awareness on Air pollution through
media materials (such as videos, pamphlets, booklets,
radio and television including print and electronic media,
film and the arts, and new media technologies).
16. Modernize exiting power systems.
17. By reducing fossil -fuel combustion.
18 The United Nations framework Convection on Air
pollution should be implemented in our country. Within
this framework a National level commission along with
NGO’s should be formed to combat this situation.
19 UN Environment Program, UNEP should open a
technical office, specializing in air pollution in Dhaka as
they open in Kathmandu, Nepal.
20 We need to save the forest and promote plantation
inside the cities to maintain or restore the ecological
balance.
21 Along with the private sectors, we can take discrete
initiatives to replace old and small vehicles and introduce
new big capacity vehicles. Less the number of cars, less
the pollution, this should be kept in the mind.
22 Cars on the streets of the capital can move according
to their license plates on particular days.
23 Lastly we need ‘Strong Political will’ to save our
environment.
Dhaka’s transport situation is crisis without end. At the
heart of the matter, it is mostly about management
(Public Administration), a general problem of systematic
failure. While sticking to phase out program government
should assist rehabilitation of the affected (Azra, 2002).
There is a talk of the CNG-fixation of the two-stroke
engines. Government should issue an order dating CNG
conversion of all vehicles within a set time frame and
begin with its own fleet and those belonging to Ministers
and also MPs who import tax-free cars. Government as
understood has a plan to expand CNG use (Azra, 2002).
Government should strengthen regulations and
enforcement. Measures to decrease fuel demand and
improve traffic conditions, unworthy road conditions, toll
collection and other issues of non-accountability are also
critical to ensuring a net emission reduction and should
be used as a complement to technical measures (Xie,
1998). In order to safeguard public health, biodiversity
and ecosystems, sustainable environmental management
needs to be guaranteed (Islam, 2006). As a part of
country's environmental management, air quality
monitoring activities is needs to be expanded to the major
cities such as Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal,
Sylhet and Narayangonj. The state of air pollution is not
environmental problem or hazard, rather it is a
governance disaster. And there is something deeply
tragic about the process of demand articulation by civil
society leaders through various forum and dialogue and
denials by the powers that be (Azra, 2002).
Let the Bangladeshis cry against the pillage of the
government, and at the same time the government will
pay heed to these and quickly turnaround drawing on the
wealth of various expert advices coming through
newsprints, journals and elsewhere on the burning issue
of air pollution, which, is a sign of failed governance (
Azra, 2002).
In spite of the recent successful withdrawal of the most
polluting three-wheelers from Dhaka's metropolitan areas.
There is an urgent need to take follow-up steps for similar
withdrawal or decommissioning of aged buses and trucks
that seem to be eluding official instructions through
repainting to look younger and managing papers from the
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) to the
effect that they are still roadworthy. It was established
after expert study that Japanese reconditioned cars
pollute far less compared to even brand new imported
cars from India. Therefore, government needs to take its
decision in respect of import of new and reconditioned
cars in light of this study to favor the environment
(Financial Express, 2006).
The government of Bangladesh to formulate special
policy to contain the steady increase in dust
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