A House committee yesterday deplored Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan’s remarks that the oil spill in the Sundarbans would not adversely affect the world’s largest mangrove forest and its biodiversity. The parliamentary standing committee on the forest and environment ministry also expressed resentment over the shipping ministry’s rejection to imposing a permanent ban on plying of commercial vessels through the Shela river, to save the Sundarbans. “We have recommended that the shipping ministry makes the Mongla-Ghasiakhali-Morolganj route eligible for plying of water vessels,” Hasan Mahmud, chief of the committee, told at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. The committee questioned the shipping ministry’s response over the spill and its course of action to minimise the impact on the Sundarbans, a world heritage. Shipping ministry comes under fire
A House committee yesterday deplored Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan’s remarks that the oil spill in the Sundarbans would not adversely affect the world’s largest mangrove forest and its biodiversity. The parliamentary standing committee on the forest and environment ministry also expressed resentment over the shipping ministry’s rejection to imposing a permanent ban on plying of commercial vessels through the Shela river, to save the Sundarbans. “We have recommended that the shipping ministry makes the Mongla-Ghasiakhali-Morolganj route eligible for plying of water vessels,” Hasan Mahmud, chief of the committee, told at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. The committee questioned the shipping ministry’s response over the spill and its course of action to minimise the impact on the Sundarbans, a world heritage.
